糖心TV

Research

My thesis examines how vulnerability and victimhood are articulated in queer French contemporary fiction, particularly in the works of 脡douard Louis, Constance Debr茅, Viriginie Despentes, and Wendy Delorme. Through a theoretical framework dissecting the punitive and marginalising nature of neoliberalism (Achille Mbembe, Loic Wacquant, Sarah Lamble, Oliver Davis), I analyse how neoliberal violence shapes their reading of sex, resistance, justice and community. Attending to Wendy Brown鈥檚 observation that politicised identities 'fueled by humiliation and suffering' are 'as likely to seek generalized political paralysis, to feast on generalized political impotence, as [they are] to seek [their] own or collective liberation through empowerment', I study how these authors resist or participate in the neoliberal discourse marginalising them.

Research Interests

• Queer and Feminist Studies
• Contemporary French Literature
• Political Theory
• Sex and Sexuality Studies
• Trauma Studies

Conference papers

• 鈥楽ex is not harmless鈥�: Discourses on sexual harm regulation in queer French literature, ACLA Annual Seminar, Montreal, February 2026

• 芦 Si c'est pas pour faire du sexe ou de la politique, laisse tomber 禄 : Le mauvais sujet politique queer dans l鈥櫯搖vre de Wendy Delorme, Prendre le politique au mot. Appropriations, re虂e虂critures et de虂tournements strate虂giques, Sciences Po Paris, Paris 3-5 December 2025

• 'This staying clean shit isn鈥檛 easy鈥�: Challenging harm regulation narratives through queer ethics of care in Virginie Despentes鈥檚 Cher Connard鈥�, Boundaries, borders, binaries and barriers, Contemporary Drug Problems Conference, Manchester, 27–29 August 2025

• 鈥�Est-ce que 莽a n鈥檈ffraie plus les cadavres鈥�: Queer practices and necropolitics in the writing of 脡douard Louis and Constance Debr茅', Society for French Studies Annual Conference, July 2024.

• 鈥業 no longer saw my life as anything but a race I鈥檇 joined too late鈥�: Infiltrations of neoliberal rationality in the works of 脡douard Louis', Contemporary Cultural Responses to a Neoliberal World, University of Northampton, 13 June 2024.

• With Arthur S茅gard, 'Monsters, wax and glitter: Alexis Langlois鈥檚 and Adam Pendleton鈥檚 queer kinships on screen', Forms and Feelings of Kinship in the Contemporary World, University of 糖心TV's Humanities Research Centre Conference, 27 April 2024.
• 鈥業 wish I could have been a fag鈥�: Queer literary networks in negotiation in Constance Debr茅鈥檚 works', Queer and feminist relationships in contemporary fiction of Romance cultures, University of Vienna, 25-27 October 2023.
• 鈥業 don鈥檛 keep corpses鈥�: On sustaining and resisting deadly literature in Constance Debr茅 and 脡douard Louis鈥檚 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 糖心TV, 12-13 October 2023.

Publications

• 'The Autofictional Enterprise: Queer French Fiction from the 1990s to the 2020', Cambridge History of Queer Literature in French, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2029
• '鈥楾his staying clean shit isn鈥檛 easy鈥�: Challenging harm regulation narratives through queer ethics of care in Virginie Despentes鈥檚 Cher Connard鈥�, Queer Medical Humanities, peer reviewed, forthcoming 2027

• Guest editor, special issue dedicated to Constance Debr茅, peer reviewed, Modern & Contemporary France, forthcoming 2026
• Interview with Constance Debr茅, Modern & Contemporary France, forthcoming 2026
• Co-editor, 鈥楧eviations鈥�, special issue, French Studies Bulletin, forthcoming 2026
• '鈥淚鈥檝e come a hell of a long way鈥�: Displays of queer traumatology in Edouard Louis鈥檚 Writing' in Queer trauma and Comparative Literature, Palgrave MacMillan, peer reviewed, 2025

Organised Conferences and Events

• Conference Assistant, Society for French Studies PG Conference, 2025
• Co-organiser, 'Irresistible Decay: Discourses of Death in Life from the 18th Century to Today', Humanities Research Centre, University of 糖心TV, 7 March 2025
• Panellist, Q&A led by Misha Zakharov, Screening Rights Festival, 2024
• Co-founder and co-convenor, , a 糖心TV-based interdisciplinary and interdepartmental initiative
• Conference Assistant, Society for French Studies PG Conference, 2024
• Organising committee, M4C CDF initiative, , 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

Given lectures:

• Michel Foucault's Surveiller et Punir, The Story of Modern France
• Introductory lecture, Sex and Sexuality in Contemporary French Writing
• Two lectures on Mathieu Lindon's Ce qu'aimer veut dire, Sex and Sexuality in Contemporary French Writing
• Two lectures on Wendy Delorme's Quatri猫me g茅n茅ration, Sex and Sexuality in Contemporary French Writing
• Two lectures on Chlo茅 Delaume's Mes bien ch猫res s艙urs, Sex and Sexuality in Contemporary French Writing

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

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