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 Sound of Silence: Conditions and Forms of Self-Writing in Maya Angelou’s, Toni Morrison’s and Zora Neale Hurston’s Non-Fiction” (provisional title)
Thesis funded through a ED 354 doctoral contract (2021-2024) under the supervision of Pr. Sophie Vallas.
Education and professional activity
- 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)
- January 2019 : “A Gentleman Lost in the 20th Century: H.P. Lovecraft the Outsider” (NUI Galway, Ireland)
- October 2021 : Guest of the Histoire en Séries podcast for an episode on the Lovecraft Country TV series
- January 2022 : “Récits d’universitaires : les cas de Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou et Zora Neale Hurston” (AMU)
- Lucas Cantinelli. Ghost Writing and Writing Ghosts : mémoire(s), identité(s) et langage(s) dans Beloved de Toni Morrison. Littératures. 2019. ⟨dumas-02876737⟩ (Master’s thesis)
- —. “Toni Morrison and the Place of Afro-American Literature in the American Canon.” 2020. https://englobe.hypotheses.org/1616
- —. “An Immersion in AMU’s Scientific Life: Organizing an International Congress with the LERMA.” 2020. https://englobe.hypotheses.org/1621
- —. “Projet Anglistique: Towards A Genealogy and for an Evolution of English Studies.” 2020. https://englobe.hypotheses.org/1625