TAIRI Mounir

PhD student

PhD student 

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Research

US Literature, US Cinema, Media Studies, Digital Literature, Narratology, Postapocalyptic Narratives

Centuries

XXe – XXIe.

PhD Dissertation

Transmedia Worldmaking: Narratological potential of the open writing at work in contemporary cultural creations

Dissertation Supervizors

Sophie Vallas (AMU – LERMA)

Arnaud Regnauld (Paris 8 – Transcrit)

  • 2014-2017 : Master’s degree in English Studies, “US literature and civilization” specialty (with high distinction) – Aix-Marseille University
    • 2nd research thesis: « ‘Pursuing Paranoia’: The perceptual clue in Inherent Vice, or the cinematic transfiguration of a transtextual poetics » (Supervized by Sophie Vallas)
    • 1st research thesis: « Fear and Loathing on America’s Trail: Desperate Chronicles of a Chronic Disillusion » (Supervized by Sophie Vallas)
  • 2014 : Advanced Degree in French Language (DALF C2) – French Institute of Constantine
  • 2013-2014 : Intermediate Certificate in Spanish Language (B2) – Batna University
  • 2009-2013 : Bachelor in English Studies (with high distinction) – Batna University
    • Research thesis: « Anatomy of Medical English and an overview on medical translation »
  • 2009 : General Baccalaureate diploma, Natural sciences, June Session (with high distinction)
  • 2007-2014 : Doctorate in Medicine – Institute of Medical Sciences (Batna University)
  • 2007 : General Baccalaureate diploma, Natural sciences, June Session (with high distinction)
  • September 2023 : Contribution in the international conference « Maîtres des Horloges ? Pouvoir, autorité et temporalité(s) en culture de l’écran » (Paul Valéry University of Montpellier)
    • Communication : « Horizons of Horror and Hope » : Authority, Agency, and Apocalyptic (a)temporalities
  • September 2022 : Contribution in the international conference « Pouvoir et autorité à l’épreuve des vulnérabilités » (Paris VIII University)
    • Member of the organizing committee of the conference’s artistic performances
    • Communication: “Sympathy for the Devil”: Panoptic power and vulnerable violence in The Walking Dead (Kirkman/AMC)
  • June 2022 : Co-editor of the 14th issue of the academic journal Malice (CIELAM/AMU), « Écrire la frontière ». Conference proceedings of the november 2020 « Frontières » conference.
  • September 2020 : Contribution in the intensive program “Mutations” of the Summer School of Valence University, Spain (ERASMUS+ Project: “Reading in Europe today – Reading and Writing Literary Texts in the Age of Digital Humanities”)
    • Communication : “The threefold mutations of Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead
  • 2020 – 2022 : Member of the interdisciplinary research collective « Frontières » (Frontiers) – ED354, Aix-Marseille University
    • November 2020 : Member of the organizing committee of a pluridisciplinary one-day conference on the same theme.
  • 2019–2020 : Archives manager of the LERMA’s archival collections of Marc Chénetier and André Le Vot – Project Anglistique: « History and epistemology of English Studies »
  • 2019 : Professional training on the production and editing of a video reportage – ED354, Aix-Marseille University
  • 2018– : Doctoral member of the LERMA’s « A » research program: « Disciplines à l’épreuve du décentrement : repenser les approches, interroger les savoirs »
    • A3 Theme « Les passeurs du champ littéraire : transferts transnationaux entre les États-Unis et la France, du XIXe au XXIe siècle »
  • 2017–2020 : Member of the editorial board of the multidisciplinary doctoral journal Les Chantiers de la Création – ED354, Aix-Marseille University
    • 2020 : Member of the organizing committee of the journal’s 13th one-day conference, “Le Vide” (Aix-Marseille University)
    • 2019 : Member of the organizing committee of the journal’s 12th one-day conference, “La mise à l’épreuve du corps” (Aix-Marseille University)
    • 2018 : Member of the organizing committee of the journal’s 11th one-day conference, “Migration et exil environnemental : du Déluge à nos jours” (Aix-Marseille University)
  • 2016–2017 : Editor-in-chief of the English Studies Master’s research blog, En-Globe – Aix-Marseille University

Enseignements en LLCER, LEA, LANSAD (ALLSH, FEG)

  • 2023/2024
    • US Literature: History of American Literature – CM L3 LLCER Anglais/Trilangue (FAD)
    • US Literature of the 20th century – TD L3 LLCER Anglais/Trilangue (FAD + Présentiel)
    • Introduction to Literary Analysis – TD L1 LLCER Anglais/Trilangue
    • Literature and Adaptation 1 – TD L1 LLCER Anglais/Trilangue
    • Literature and Adaptation 2 – TD L1 LLCER Anglais/Trilangue
    • LANSAD English Renforcement 1 (Level 3): Politics of Engagement in US Cinema
    • LANSAD English Renforcement 2 (Level 3): Political Discourses in US Cinema
    • LANSAD English Continuant 2 (Level 2)
  • 2022/2023
    • US Literature: History of American Literature – CM L3 LLCER Anglais/Trilangue (FAD)
    • US Literature of the 20th century – TD L3 LLCER Anglais/Trilangue (FAD + Présentiel)
    • Introduction to Literary Analysis – TD L1 LLCER Anglais/Trilangue
    • Literature and Adaptation 1 – TD L1 LLCER Anglais/Trilangue
    • Literature and Adaptation 2 – TD L1 LLCER Anglais/Trilangue
    • LANSAD English Renforcement 1 (Level 3): Politics of Engagement in US Cinema
    • LANSAD English Renforcement 2 (Level 3): Political Discourses in US Cinema
    • LANSAD English Continuant 2 (Level 2)
  • 2021/2022
    • US Literature: History of American Literature – CM L3 LLCER Anglais/Trilangue (FAD)
    • US Literature of the 20th century – TD L3 LLCER Anglais/Trilangue (FAD + Présentiel)
    • Introduction to Literary Analysis – TD L1 LLCER Anglais/Trilangue
    • Literature and Adaptation 2 – TD L1 LLCER Anglais/Trilangue
    • LANSAD English Renforcement 1 (Level 3): Politics of Engagement in US Cinema
    • LANSAD English Renforcement 2 (Level 3): Political Discourses in US Cinema
  • 2020/2021
    • US Literature: History of American Literature – CM L3 LLCER Anglais/Trilangue (FAD)
    • US Literature of the 20th century – TD L3 LLCER Anglais/Trilangue (FAD + Présentiel)
    • Literature and Adaptation 2 – TD L1 LLCER Anglais/Trilangue
    • LANSAD English Renforcement 2 (Level 3)
    • LANSAD English Continuant 2 (Level 2)
  • 2019/2020
    • US Literature: History of American Literature – CM L3 LLCE (FAD)
    • US Literature of the 20th century – TD L3 LLCE (FAD)
    • Literature and Adaptation 2 – TD L1 LLCE
  • 2018/2019
    • US Literature: History of American Literature – CM L3 LLCE (FAD)
    • US Literature of the 20th century – TD L3 LLCE (FAD + Présentiel)
    • Literature and Adaptation 1 – TD L1 LLCE
  • 2017/2018
    • US Literature – TD L2 LLCE
    • Translation (French to English) – TD L3 LEA
    • Translation (French to English) – TD L1 LLCE
    • Media/Press studies – TD L1 LLCE
    • LANSAD English (Level 2) – TD L1 FEG