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My teaching and research interests are:

apocalyptic science-fiction in literature and film
representations of women in science fiction
nineteenth-century French and English literature
depictions of monsters and the monstrous in popular culture.

My most recent research focuses on representation of women in science-fiction, more particularly on gender relations at the end of the world, and on man-made women such as clones, robots, sex-dolls and other Brides of Frankenstein.

Publications

”L’Orientale de Flaubert, un Sphinx sans secrets.” L’Histoire feuilletée : dispositifs intertextuels dans la fiction historique du XIXe siècle. ed. Claudie Bernard and Corinne Saminadayar-Perrin, 2022, p.35-46

“Philip Kaufman’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Mistrusting the female experience”, Supernatural Studies, Vol.5, Issue 1, p.96-120. (2018)

“Do I look inanimate to you, Punk?’ When plants rebel.” Special issue of Modern Language Studies on Speculative horror, ed. Bethany Sloane. (2019)

"Le Rire au service de la tyrannie dans L'Homme qui Rit de Victor Hugo"

French Forum, vol. 45, no. 2, Summer 2020

“Napoleonic conquest and Chinese absorption: dialectics of territorial expansion in Jack London’s The Unparalleled invasion”, Speculations of War: Essays on Conflicts, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Utopian literature. Ed. Annette Magid, McFarland editions. (2021) Link to the editor: https://www.waterstones.com/book/speculations-of-war/annette-m-magid//9781476672793

“Fixing the Female – the man-made woman as a re-creation”. Frankenstein Revived: Essays on the International Reception, Translation and Recasting of Mary Shelley’s Novel, ed. Jorge Bastos da Silva and Katarzyna Pisarska (2023)

“Ex-Machina d’Alex Garland, Femme-machine et fille d’Eve”,

L'Homme et la Société, No. 213, Théâtralité de la Machine. Éd. Florent le Bot, 2020/2

Le rire au service de la tyrannie - audio

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Philip-Kaufmans-Invasion

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Do i look Inanimate (1)

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Do I look inanimate (2)

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Do I look inanimate (3)

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Conference Participation

"The Sybil's cave in early science fiction literature - Danger, knowledge, and the secret of what will be." SFS Annual Conference, Newcastle University (Jun. 2023)

"'La Fidélité du Miroir': Figures du Double dans L'Ève Future de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam." Seeing Double - Société des Dix-Neuviémistes. Queen's University, Belfast (Mar. 2022)

“Ex Machina - Down with the Fairy Tale.” New Directions in Mythology Studies, University of St. Andrews (Nov. 2021)

"The Last Man on Earth – A New Myth for a new Trauma."
Fates and Graces Mythologium. Online (Aug. 2021)

"The Actress as an Enchantress in L'Ève Future, by Villiers de L'Isle-Adam"
Femmes dérangées, femmes dérangeantes / Disturbed and Disruptive Women. Women in French. Online (May 2021)

"Mary Shelley's Last Man. the Delusions of Prophecy."
Collapse and Extinction Conference. Online (April 2021)

"A Child of the Revolution. The Origins of Science fiction"
French Futures. A French Science Fiction Festival. University of Stirling. Online (Mar. 2021)

"Are you a good person? Gender relations in post-apocalyptic fiction."
HawaiiCon. Online (Oct. 2020)

"Evelyn Habal: Everyday Magic."
Enchantement / Disenchantment. Nineteenth-Century Studies Colloquium, Florida State University & Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota FL (Oct 2019)

“Are you a good person? Gender relations in post-apocalyptic fiction”
Politics and Conflict, 40th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando. (Mar. 2019 )

“Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville, the First of the Last Men.” Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference 2018, “Celebrity / Obscurity.” University of California Riverside & Scripps College, Manhattan Beach. (Oct. 2018)

“Do I look inanimate to you, Punk? When plants rebel.”
The Contrary of Revelation: Apocalypse and the Epistemology of Horror – 48th annual NeMLA Convention. Baltimore. (Mar. 2017)

“The Gnome and the Mirror in Oscar Wilde’s The Birthday of the Infanta.”
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference 2017, Odd Bodies. Philadelphia. (Mar. 2017)

“From gold-paved streets to scorched earth: pre-revolutionary utopias and post-revolutionary dystopias.”
57è Congrès Annuel, Society for French Studies. Glasgow. (Jun. 2016)

“Dialectics of conquest and absorption in Jack London’s The Unparalleled invasion.”
The Impact of War on Science Fiction or Fantasy Literature – 47th Annual NeMLA Convention. Hartford. (Mar. 2016)

"Combien de temps… Je n’en sais rien. La temporalité après l’Apocalypse.”
VIIe Congrès de la SERD. Le XIXe siècle face au futur. Penser, représenter, rêver l’avenir au XIXe siècle. Paris. (Mar. 2016)
Video available here

“Il fallait rire. Le rire contagieux au service de la tyrannie dans L’Homme qui Rit de Victor Hugo. ”
Contamination. 41st annual Colloquium of the Nineteenth-Century Studies. Princeton University (Nov. 2015)