I am an Associate Professor and the Fellow and Tutor in French, overseeing the teaching of French at Brasenose. I am a Member of French Sub-Faculty and Congregation and of SOAS GLOCAL Scientific Committee.

I also hold the office of Curator of the Senior Common Room.

The first highlight in my academic career was a scholarship (Allocation de Recherche) and a Monitorat d’Enseignement Supérieur from the Ministry of Research and the concomitant training I received throughout my PhD within the Centre d’Initiation à l’Enseignement Supérieur (1992-95). As an allocataire-monitrice (Junior Research Fellow), I taught French literature and culture, as well as comparative literature. I was then a Lecturer in English/American Literature at Montpellier/Nîmes (1995-96). This early experience proved a solid grounding for Oxford, where I was a Lectrice and Lecturer in French at various colleges for several years and a Research assistant to Prof. Malcolm Bowie, Marshal Foch Professor at All Souls (1999-2001), before being appointed to a Fellowship at Brasenose in 2009 and an  Associate Professor in 2021.

I have held visiting Professorships at Vilnius University and at the MODERNITAS research centre-Université Libre de Bruxelles and a Senior Research Fellowship at the Maison e la Création et de l’Innovation, Grenoble-Alpes (funded by the French Government’s Programme d’Investissement Avenir and implemented by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche ANR France 2030.

My professional development transcends my academic qualifications and includes Trans Awareness Training run by Gendered Intelligence, Mental Health Awareness Training run by Restore and Mental Health Awareness Training (supporting students) run by Sara Hitchens at Oxford. I also have Certificates in Mental Health Awareness Training for Managers, Assessing Mental Capacity and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.

I teach a range of topics in French/Francophone literature from the nineteenth century to the present. For Prelims: the close reading of modern and contemporary short texts and narrative fiction (Papers III and IV). At FHS level: French and Francophone literature of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries on Paper VIII, some modern and contemporary “Prescribed Authors” on Paper XI, Special Subjects (XII) on 19th-21st-century French poetry. I also teach formal grammar and prose translation.

At the postgraduate level, I teach seminars on “Poetry and Ethics” for the MSt/MPhil. I have supervised DPhil theses on comparative literature (Baudelaire and Virginia Woolf; Flaubert and Faulkner), on ‘troubled’ récits de filiation in the 21st-century; on The Construction of Balzac as a Classic Writer; as well as MSt and undergraduate theses on various intersections of 19th-to-21st-century French/Francophone literature and ethics, literature and the performing arts, the crossroads of French/Francophone literature and phenomenology (19th-21st c.) ; comparative studies.

I welcome applications from excellent students from all corners of the world and from all walks of life.

Much of my research focuses on comparative literature, literature and phenomenology, the performing arts, the problematics of mourning and modern/contemporary poetry. More recently I have endeavoured to make some of my interests coalesce in the topic of habitability, fostering collaborations with a diversity of experts, including scientists.