PhD student
Research
- Lovecraftian literature
- African-American literature
- Self-narratives, autobiography
- “Histoire(s) et vies des littératures” research project
Research period
20th century
Thesis
“‘The blueprint to a life’: silence, narrative (dis)continuity and autobiographical potential in the writings of Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison”
Thesis funded through a ED 354 doctoral contract (2021-2024) under the supervision of Pr. Sophie Vallas.
Education and professional activity
- ATER in Aix-Marseille Université (2024-2025)
- Organizing committee member for the 55th AFEA conference in Aix-Marseille Université (2023-2024)
- AFEA-SAES PhD grant laureate (2023)
- PhD student representative at the UFR ALLSH Research Committee (2022-2023)
- Contractual PhD student in AMU under the supervision of Pr. Sophie Vallas
- Agrégation in English (2021)
- Master 2 “Études Culturelles du Monde Anglophone” in Aix-Marseille Université (2019-2020)
- Teaching Assistant in NUI Galway, Ireland (2018-2019)
- Master 1 “Aire Culturelle du Monde Anglophone” in Aix-Marseille Université (2017-2018)
- Preparatory Class in the Humanities (2014-2017)
- May 2025 : “Écrire et exister entre les lignes : le blueprint autobiographique dans les ‘Maya Angelou Papers’ et les ‘Toni Morrison Papers'” (LERMA seminar, AMU)
- November 2024 : “Incarnation du récit de soi : narration et performance dans les entretiens de Maya Angelou et Toni Morrison” (conference “L’autobiographie dans le paratexte : fiction et non fiction à l’épreuve du paratexte autobiographique”, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour)
- May 2024 : “New tools for a new house: bâtir une autre littérature avec Toni Morrison et Zora Neale Hurston” (AMU, 55th AFEA conference)
- April 2024 : “The sound of silence: conditions et modalités du récit de soi chez Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Angelou et Toni Morrison” (LERMA seminar, AMU)
- July 2023 : “The prison of ‘I’: autobiography as contradiction in Toni Morrison’s writings” (“North-American Novelists’ Autobiographical Acts: Nonfictional Disruptions” conference, AMU)
- May 2023 : “Discursive ‘othering’: logos, phonos, and the Afro-American speech” (Université de Bourgogne, 54th AFEA conference)
- January 2022 : “Récits d’universitaires : les cas de Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou et Zora Neale Hurston” (LERMA seminar, AMU)
- October 2021 : Guest of the Histoire en Séries podcast for an episode on the series Lovecraft Country
- January 2019 : “A Gentleman Lost in the 20th Century: H.P. Lovecraft the Outsider” (Night of Ideas, National University of Ireland Galway)
- “Anemoia and the Vaporwave Phenomenon: the ‘New’ Aesthetic of an Imagined Nostalgia.” June 2024. Imaginaires, n°26. https://doi.org/10.34929/imaginaires.vi26.57
- “Projet Anglistique: Towards A Genealogy and for an Evolution of English Studies.” July 2020. https://englobe.hypotheses.org/1625
- “An Immersion in AMU’s Scientific Life: Organizing an International Congress with the LERMA.” June 2020. https://englobe.hypotheses.org/1621
- “Toni Morrison and the Place of Afro-American Literature in the American Canon.” March 2020. https://englobe.hypotheses.org/1616
- Ghost Writing and Writing Ghosts : mémoire(s), identité(s) et langage(s) dans Beloved de Toni Morrison. Littératures. September 2019. ⟨dumas-02876737⟩ (Master’s thesis)