About

I am a PhD student in contemporary French literature. My project focuses on queer vulnerability in French contemporary narratives and is supervised by Professor Oliver Davis and Dr Douglas Morrey.

Research

My research analyses the proliferation of references to vulnerability in contemporary queer French texts. Whilst previous understandings of queer vulnerability placed emphasis on forms of violence originating externally (e.g. social discrimination, physical aggressions), a new generation of queer French authors has shifted the emphasis towards an expression of vulnerability inherent to their queerness. Seeking to challenge a discourse which associates the expression of queer suffering with passivity and victimhood, by bringing these texts together alongside Jean-Luc Nancy’s affirmative philosophy for the first time, I will offer instead a narrative of vulnerability as a form of agency. I will do so by analysing the works of Louis (2014, 2018, 2021), Daas (2019), Debré (2018, 2020, 2022, 2023), Delabroy-Allard (2018), and Bouraoui (2005, 2016, 2018).

Research Interests

• Queer literature
• Contemporary French autofiction
• Contemporary French Thought

Conference papers

• ‘Est-ce que ça n’effraie plus les cadavres’: Queer practices and necropolitics in the writing of Édouard Louis and Constance Debré', Society for French Studies Annual Conference, July 2024.

• ‘I no longer saw my life as anything but a race I’d joined too late’: Infiltrations of neoliberal rationality in the works of Édouard Louis', Contemporary Cultural Responses to a Neoliberal World, University of Northampton, 13 June 2024.

• With Arthur Ségard, 'Monsters, wax and glitter: Alexis Langlois’s and Adam Pendleton’s queer kinships on screen', Forms and Feelings of Kinship in the Contemporary World, University of Warwick's Humanities Research Centre Conference, 27 April 2024.
• ‘I wish I could have been a fag’: Queer literary networks in negotiation in Constance Debré’s works', Queer and feminist relationships in contemporary fiction of Romance cultures, University of Vienna, 25-27 October 2023.
• ‘I don’t keep corpses’: On sustaining and resisting deadly literature in Constance Debré and Édouard Louis’s works', Spectres, spectrums and spectrality: New and interdisciplinary approaches to Comparative and World Literature, The British Comparative Literature Association Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Conference, University of Warwick, 12-13 October 2023.

Organised Conferences and Events

• Panellist, Q&A led by Misha Zakharov, Screening Rights Festival, 2024.
• Co-organiser, 'Irresistible Decay: Discourses of Death in Life from the 18th Century to Today', Humanities Research Centre, University of Warwick, 7 March 2025
• Co-founder and co-convenor, Sex:Queer Research Network, a Warwick-based interdisciplinary and interdepartmental initiative
• Conference Assistant, Society for French Studies PG Conference, 2024
• Organising committee, M4C CDF initiative, Sex in Contemporary Media: An Interdisciplinary Conference, 4-6 October 2023
• Co-organiser, SMLC PGR Symposium 2023, 'Rethinking the Crisis across Languages and Cultures', 12-13 May 2023

Teaching

2024/2025:

• FR357: Sex and Sexuality in Contemporary French Writing
• FR1013: Modern French Language I Oral
• FR2014: Modern French Language II Oral
• FR201: Translation

Previous years :

• FR121: The Story of Modern France

Scholarships and Awards

• HRC doctoral fellowship, 2024-2025.
• European Commission Excellence Award for event organising for the Science Summit 2022.
• Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership, AHRC Doctoral Award, 2022-2026.
• Kate Bertram Prize for Distinction in MPhil in Comparative European Literatures and Cultures, 2019.

Qualifications

• Hypokhâgne A/L, Poitiers, France
• BA (Hons) in French and German, King's College London, UK
• MPhil in European, Latin American and Comparative Literatures and Cultures, University of Cambridge, UK