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Milena Vujicic

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Professor Milena has been a French language and civilization professor for many years, working at several institutions including Inalco, Sciences Po, and UPEC. Her professional experience extends beyond academia; she has taught academic methodologies and has been involved in humanitarian work with young people. Milena holds a Bachelor's degree in Humanities and Social Sciences with a specialization in Sociology, a Master’s in Language Didactics with a focus on French as a Foreign Language, French as a Second Language, and Interculturality, and a Master’s in Literature with a specialization in French as a Foreign Language.

Milena’s current research focuses on the intersection of language, trauma, and intercultural communication, exploring how language can be a tool for resilience and recovery in challenging contexts.

Research Areas and Areas of Expertise:

Linguistics of trauma
Intercultural communication
Language didactics and methodology
Humanitarian education and support for young people
Socio-cultural impact of language learning
Multilingualism and language acquisition

Master 2 MEEF: Teaching Literature with a focus on French as a Foreign Language, University of Aix-Marseille, Marseille
Master's in Language Didactics, University Paris V, Paris (FLE, FLS, and Interculturality track)
Bachelor's in Humanities and Social Sciences, University Paris V, Paris (Major: Sociology. Minors: Psychology, Ethnology, Language Sciences)

MOOCs:

The Bilingual Brain, University of Houston
Diversity and Inclusion in Education, University of Glasgow
What Future for Education?, University of London and UCL Institute of Education
Supporting Children with Difficulties in Reading and Writing, University of London, UCL Institute of Education, and Dyslexia and Literacy International
Teaching Character and Creating Positive Classrooms, Relay Graduate School of Education
Psychological First Aid, Johns Hopkins University
The Science of Well-Being, Yale
Learning How to Learn: Powerful Mental Tools to Help You Master Tough Subjects, McMaster University and University of California.

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Université Denis Diderot (Paris VII)
Licence, Japonais · (2000 - 2003)
Université de Cergy-Pontoise
DEA, Langues, Littératures et Civilisations Contemporaines · (1999 - 2000)
Mémoire: la sauvegarde de l'âme amérindienne dans le roman et le théâtre québécois
IUFM Versailles
CAPES, Lettres Modernes · (1998 - 1999)
Université Paris X Nanterre
Maîtrise, Lettres Modernes · (1996 - 1997)

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Rebekah Rast

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Member of the editorial board, Acquisition et Interaction en Langue Étrangère: Langage, Interaction et Acquisition, Amsterdam, John Benjamins.
Member of the editorial board, EUROSLA Yearbook, the journal of the European Second Language Association, John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
Country coordinator with M. Watorek (Paris VIII) for the project Varieties of Initial Learners in Language Acquisition (VILLA): Controlled classroom input and elementary forms of linguistic organisation, grant received from the Open Research Area in Europe for the Social Sciences across three countries: France, Germany, and The Netherlands.
Coordinator with M. Watorek of CNRS-GDRI grant (Paris VIII) Second Language Acquisition and Teaching: First stages and input processing.
Member of French research network, Réseau Français d'Acquisition des Langues Secondes (ReAL2).
Member of the French research team UMR 7023 Structures Formelles du Langage: Langage, Cognition et Acquisition, CNRS and Université Paris VIII.
Member of the French Research Group (GDR ADYLOC) Langues, langage oral, cognition : Acquisition et dysfonctionnements - nouvelles approches.

Professor Rast received her Habilitation à diriger des recherches from the Université Grenoble Alpes and her doctorate from the Université Paris 8 in linguistics with a specialization in adult second/third language acquisition. Her research focuses on the role that a learner's linguistic environment (foreign language input) plays in the acquisition process. She works with an interdisciplinary research team, Structures formelles du langage comprised of university faculty and CNRS researchers. Current projects include ALACIE (Appropriation Linguistique et Accueil des Chercheurs et Intellectuels en EXIL) and Groupement d'Intérêt Scientifique en Acquisition des Langues Secondes (GIS RéAL2). She also collaborates on a European project Varieties of Initial Learners in Language Acquisition (VILLA).

Rast has taught English and linguistics at the American University of Paris since 1992. Courses include teacher training (Pedagogical Grammar and TESOL Methodologies), English (all levels of writing), and linguistics (Introduction to Linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Language and Migration; Language Acquisition and Social Policy; Languages of the World; Language Acquisition and Multilingualism).

Her current research interests include:

second language acquisition/learning
third and additional language acquisition/learning
psycholinguistics
the interface between language acquisition research and foreign language teaching
language in education
language learning during study abroad
English as a second/foreign language

"From processing to production in Japanese Ln at the initial stages of acquisition", with P. Trévisiol and M. Watorek, The 20th International Conference of the Japan Second Language Association, Shizuoka University, Japan (online), 27 March 2021.
"Measuring the language input, uptake and intake of learners abroad", with M. Starren and M. Watorek, Study Abroad Research in European Perspective: Input in Study Abroad and Views from Acquisition. Focus on Constructs, Operationalisation and Measurement Issues, COST Action Workshop, Barcelona, Spain, 24 January 2019.
"Saliency revisited: What helps absolute beginners learn L2/L3 inflectional morphology?" with M. Watorek, K. Starosciak and M. Durand, European Second Language Association Conference 26, Münster, Germany, 7 September 2018.
"Etude comparative de l’impact des caractéristiques des langues cibles sur le traitement de l’input en début d’acquisition. Réplique du projet VILLA, with M. Watorek, X. C. Yu, Q. Guan, P. Trévisiol and H. Majdoub. Colloque International “Research methodology in the field of second language acquisition and learning”, Montpellier, France, 31 May 2018.
"Replicating input-based studies, contextual factors, and ecological validity", with C. Dimroth, M. Starren and M. Watorek. Invited panel "Consolidating and Sustaining a Principled Replication Effort in SLA Research", European Second Language Association Conference 26, Reading, UK, 31 August 2017.
“L’acquisition de la morphologie nominale en polonais langue étrangère par des apprenants français débutants: difficultés spécifiques des locuteurs francophones”, with M. Watorek. Colloque international de linguistique, Analyse des erreurs commises par des francophones apprenant une langue éloignée, Centre d’études japonaises de l’INALCO, Paris, 5 February 2016.
"Les premières étapes dans l’acquisition d’une langue étrangère : dialogue entre Acquisition et Didactique des langues", with M. Watorek and M. Durand. Journée d’étude Acquisition-Didactique 2, INALCO, Paris, 19 March, 2016.
"The significance of composition symbols for the development of writing in a foreign language". Trends in Foreign Language Teaching, PETALL, Université de Grenade, Espagne, 28 April, 2016.
"Construction du discours en polonais langue cible par des apprenants débutants : l’interaction des propriétés des langues sources et de l’input en classe de langue", with M. Watorek, P. Trévisiol and A.-C. Demagny. International conference, Connaissances et usages en langue seconde/Knowledge and Usage in Second Language, Nantes, France, 30 June, 2016.
"Measuring foreign language exposure and its effects on language development: Applications for study abroad”. Invited speaker. Study Abroad Research in European Perspective: Methods and measures of input and language development, COST Action Conference,Vilnius, Lithuania, 14 October, 2016.
“What can adult learners do at first exposure to a novel language?” Second Language Studies Seminar, Michigan State University, 12 November 2015.
“How do absolute beginners learn inflectional morphology?”, with M. Watorek and A. Latos. Classroom Oriented Research: Toward Effective Learning and Teaching, Konin, Poland, 14 October 2015.
“Individual differences in a beginning language classroom: young adult learners in five European countries”, with H. Hilton and M. Starren. European Second Language Association Conference 25, Aix-en-Provence, France, 29 August 2015.
“To what extent does structured and practiced input neutralize L1 and L2 effects on an L3 at the initial stages of acquisition?”, with M. Watorek, P. Trévisiol and A.-C. Demagny. European Second Language Association Conference 25, Aix-en-Provence, France, 28 August 2015.
“L’apprentissage d’une nouvelle langue: comment démarrer ?” Invited speaker, LGIDF conference Journée Pédagogique: Acquisition et enseignment du français en context multilingue, Paris, 17 June 2015.
“Instructed third language acquisition: The first moments of input processing”. Invited speaker, Applied Linguistics 3rd Postgraduate Conference, University of Greenwich, UK, 27 May 2015.
“Language learner performance at first exposure and implications for teaching”. Applied Linguistics and TESOL Program Seminar, Teachers College, Columbia University, NYC, 16 December 2014.
“The development of phonemic categories at first exposure”, with E. Shoemaker. ERP: Experimental Psycholinguistics Conference, Madrid, Spain, 3 October 2014.
“Recognizing lexical forms in the speech stream at first exposure”, with G. van Bergen and E. Shoemaker. European Second Language Association Conference 24, York, UK, 4 September 2014.
“Cracking the code of a new linguistic system: First exposure studies”. Second Language Studies Colloquium, Indiana University, 11 April 2014.
“The development of phonemic categories at first exposure”, with E. Shoemaker. ERP: Experimental Psycholinguistics Conference, Madrid, Spain, 3 October 2014.
“Recognizing lexical forms in the speech stream at first exposure”, with G. van Bergen and E. Shoemaker. European Second Language Association Conference 24, York, UK, 4 September 2014.
“Breaking into a novel linguistic system”. Invited plenary speaker, Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata (AltLA), Verona, Italy, 6 February 2014.
“Comment observer la ‘saisie’ de l’apprenant débutant ?” Invited speaker, De l'importance du corpus en didactique et en acquisition des langues, student organized conference, Université Paris VIII, St. Denis, France, 14 January 2014.
“Cześć! The development of perceptual sensitivity to Polish sibilants at first exposure”, with E. Shoemaker. European Second Language Association Conference 23, Amsterdam, NL, 31 August 2013.
“Processing morpho-syntax at first exposure: The role of source language, input and learner variability”, with M. Starren, M. Watorek, H. Hilton and A. Latos. European Second Language Association Conference 23, Amsterdam, NL, 29 August 2013.
"Word recognition strategies at first exposure", with E. Shoemaker. European Second Language Association Conference 22, Poznań, Poland, 7 September 2012.
"Perception and production of nominal morphology: The early stages of the acquisition of Polish by child and adult native speakers of German", with J. Hinz, C. Dimroth and M. Watorek. European Second Language Association Conference 22, Poznań, Poland, 7 September 2012.
"Instructional treatment types and their effects on the processing of nominal morphology by beginning learners of Polish", with M. Watorek and H. Hilton, Annual European Second Language Acquisition Conference 21, Stockholm University, Sweden, 8 September 2011.
Extracting words from the L2 speech stream: a first exposure study, with E. Shoemaker, for the panel “First exposure studies: Implications for an applied research agenda”. Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics, University of New Brunswick & St. Thomas University, Fredericton, Canada, 1 June 2011.
"Linguistic input and foreign language teaching: What do learners ‘take in’ during beginning language instruction?" The Department of Education, University of York, 24 March 2011.
Extracting words from the L2 speech stream: preliminary data from a first exposure study of L2 Polish, The Department of Applied Linguistics and Communication, Birkbeck College, University of London, 25 March 2011.
Initial processing of morphological marking in second language acquisition, with M. Watorek and H. Hilton. Annual European Second Language Association Conference 20, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2 September 2010.
"The first hours of second language acquisition: How do French native speakers perceive, comprehend and parse the Polish speech stream?" Research Centre for Applied Linguistics and English, University of Cambridge, UK, 9 February 2010.
"Modeling responses to the first few hours of exposure to new languages". Poster presented with Claudia Roda and Georgi Stojanov at the conference Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN), Utrecht, The Netherlands, 5 February 2010.
"The role of linguistic input in the early stages of adult language learning". Third A. Guiora Roundtable Conference in Cognitive Neuroscience of Language, sponsored by the journal Language Learning and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 8-9 October 2009.
"Initial representations at first exposure to a target language, for the panel “First exposure studies: new methods, new results”. The International Symposium on Bilingualism 7, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, 9 July 2009.
"Initial processing of target language input", for the panel “Learner spontaneous processing of input”, Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics, Washington, D.C., 13 March 2009.
"The use of prior linguistic knowledge in the early stages of L2+ acquisition. The Role of the Background Languages in Third Language Acquisition: Romance languages as L1, L2 or L3", Stockholm University, Sweden, 5 February 2009.
"L’input et l’état initial L2 : les écrits de Clive Perdue". Acquisition des langues : perspectives comparatives : Hommage à Clive Perdue, Université Paris 8, 5 December 2008.
"The multilingual’s ability to discriminate accent in a non-native language", International Conference on Multilingualism: Cross-cultural communication and language acquisition, Universitat Jaume 1, Castelló, Espagne, 18 December 2008.
"The effects of linguistic experience on the perception of English accent variation by non-native speakers", Annual European Second Language Acquisition Conference 18: Second Language Acquisition Research in Context, Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, 12 September 2008.
"Characterizing the Multilingual’s Linguistic Profile". Poster presented at the 17th Sociolinguistics Symposium, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 5 April 2008.
"Learners ‘taking in’ target language input". 33rd LAUD Linguistic Agency Symposium: Cognitive Approaches to Second/Foreign Language Processing, Theory and Pedagogy, Landau, Germany, 11 March 2008.
"What do adult learners do with the target language input they get?" Language Acquisition Seminar, The University of London Institute in Paris, 7 February 2007.
"Theoretical implications of first exposure studies in SLA (Second Language Acquisition)". Poster presented at the Annual European Second Language Association Conference 16, Boğaziçi University, Antalya, Turkey, 15 September 2006.
"Different from the beginning: Two case studies of early adult L2 acquisition", international conference Recherche sur l’acquisition et l’enseignement d’une langue seconde ou étrangère, La Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, 7 September 2006.
"Activating previously acquired language(s) upon first contact with a foreign language". Annual European Second Language Association Conference 15, University of Zagreb, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 14-17 September 2005.
"Cross-linguistic influence upon first contact with L3 input". Fourth International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism, Universities of Fribourg/Freiburg and Biel/Bienne, 9 September 2005.
"Information processing upon first exposure to a second language". Seminar on Bi- and Multilingualism and Cognition, Mitteleuropa Foundation, Bolzano, Italy, 20 May 2005.

HDR, Linguistics, Université Grenoble Alpes
PhD, Linguistics, Université Paris 8
DEA, Linguistics (Option: Second Language Acquisition), Université Paris 8
MA, Applied Linguistics/TESOL, Indiana University, Bloomington
BA, French and Music, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville NY

Professor Rast’s co-edited volume with Marzena Watorek and Arnaud Arslangul has been published by Inalco Press: Premières étapes dans l’acquisition des langues étrangères: dialogue entre acquisition et didactique des langues. The online book can be found here: https://books.openedition.org/pressesinalco/41438#

ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

Watorek, M., Trévisiol, P. and Rast, R. (2021) The emergence of determiners in French L2 from the point of view of L1/L2 comparison. Languages 6(2),73.
Watorek, M., Rast, R., Durand, M., Dimroth, C. and Starren, M. (2017) “L’influence du type d’enseignement sur l’appropriation de la morphologie au début de l’apprentissage d’une langue étrangère”. Le français dans le monde, 61, 47-61.
Dimroth, C., Rast, R., Starren, M. and Watorek, M. (2013) “Methods for studying a new language under controlled input conditions: The VILLA project”. EUROSLA Yearbook 13: 109-138.
Hinz, J., Krause, C., Rast, R., Shoemaker, E. and Watorek, M. (2013) “Initial processing of morphological marking in nonnative language acquisition: Evidence from French and German learners of Polish”. EUROSLA Yearbook 13: 39-175.
Shoemaker, E. and Rast, R. (2013) "Extracting words from the speech stream at first exposure". Second Language Research 29/2: 165-183.
Rast, R. (2010) "The role of linguistic input in the first hours of adult language learning". Language Learning (Wiley-Blackwell).
Rast, R. (2010) "The use of prior linguistic knowledge in the early stages of L3 acquisition". International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (Mouton de Gruyter).
Rast, R. and Taïeb, E. (2008) "Présentation". Acquisition et Interaction en Langue Étrangère : Savoirs et savoir-faire dans l’apprentissage et l’enseignement d’une langue étrangère 27, 3-14.
Rast, R. (2006) "Le premier contact avec une nouvelle langue étrangère : comment s’acquitter d’une tâche de compréhension ?" Acquisition et Interaction en Langue Étrangère 24, 119-148.
Trévisiol, P. and Rast, R. (2006) "Présentation". Acquisition et Interaction en Langue Étrangère 24, 3-11.
Rast, R. and Dommergues, J-Y. (2003) "Towards a characterisation of saliency on first exposure to a second language". EUROSLA Yearbook 3, 131-156.
Rast, R. (1999) "The first hours of second language acquisition", Acquisition et Interaction en Langue Etrangère, Special Issue, Vol. 2 From Word to Structure, 73-88.
Perdue, C. and Rast, R. (1999) "Introduction". Acquisition et Interaction en Langue Étrangère Special Issue, Vol. 1 The Bilingual Person, 1-6.

BOOKS AND CHAPTERS

Watorek, M., Yu, X.C., Guan, Q., Trévisiol, P., H. Majdoub, H. and Rast, R. (2020) “A replication study: Measuring the influence of typologically diverse target language properties on input processing at the initial stages of acquisition”. In A. Edmonds, P. Leclercq and A. Gudmestad (Eds.), Interpreting Language-Learning Data. Berlin, Language Science Press, 71-110.
Arslangul, A., Watorek, M. and Rast, R. (2021) “Dialogue entre acquisition et didactique des langues: introduction générale”. In M. Watorek, A. Arslangul and R. Rast (Eds.), Premières étapes dans l’acquisition des langues étrangères : dialogue entre acquisition et didactique des langues, Paris, Presses d’Inalco.
Watorek, M., Durand, M. and R. Rast (2021) “Les premières étapes dans l’acquisition d’une langue étrangère: dialogue entre Acquisition et Didactique des langues”. In M. Watorek, A. Arslangul and R. Rast (Eds.), Premières étapes dans l’acquisition des langues étrangères : dialogue entre acquisition et didactique des langues, Paris, Presses d’Inalco.
Watorek, M., Yu, X.C., Guan, Q., Trévisiol, P., H. Majdoub, H. and Rast, R. (2020) “A replication study: Measuring the influence of typologically diverse target language properties on input processing at the initial stages of acquisition”. In A. Edmonds, P. Leclercq and A. Gudmestad (Eds.), Interpreting Language-Learning Data. Berlin, Language Science Press, 71-110.
Rast, R. (2019) “What first exposure studies of input can contribute to Study Abroad research”. In M. Howard (Ed.), Study Abroad, Second Language Acquisition and Interculturality. Bristol, Multilingual Matters, 179-206.
Rast, R. (in press 2018) "The significance of composition symbols for the development of writing in a foreign language". In A. Lopes & R. Ruiz Cecilia (Eds.), New Trends in Foreign Language Teaching. Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars, 198-211.
Latos, A., Watorek M., Rast, R. et Durand, M. (2016) "Badanie procesu akwizycji języka drugiego od podstaw: projekt VILLA i jego praktyczne implikacje w nauczaniu języka obcego w systemie klasowo-lekcyjnym". In J. Klimek-Grądzka & A. Majewska-Wójcik (Eds.), Nauczanie języka polskiego. Tradycje i innowacje,Vol. 2, 67-94. Lublin, Wydawnictwo KUL.
Rast, R. (2015) "Primi passi in un nuovo sistema linguistico". In M.E. Favilla & E. Nuzzo (Eds.), Grammatica Applicata: Apprendimento, Patologie, Insegnamento, 111-124. Milan, Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata. http://www.aitla.it/images/pdf/eBook-AITLA-2.pdf
Han, Z-H. and Rast, R. (Eds.) (2014) First Exposure to a Second Language: Learners’ Initial Input Processing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rast, R., Watorek, M., Hilton, H. and Shoemaker, E. (2014) "Initial processing and use of inflectional markers: Evidence from French adult learners of Polish". In Z-H. Han and R. Rast (Eds.), First Exposure to a Second Language: Learners’ Initial Input Processing, 64-106. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rast, R. (2012) "L2 input and the L2 initial state: The writings of Clive Perdue". In M. Watorek, S. Benazzo & M. Hickmann (Eds.), Comparative Perspectives to Language Acquisition: A Tribute to Clive Perdue, 37-53. Bristol, Multilingual Matters.
Rast, R., Dimroth, C. and Watorek, M. (2011) "Language teaching and acquisition: What can we learn from ab initio learners?". In P. Trévisiol-Okamura & G. Komur-Thilloy (Eds.), Discours, acquisition et didactique des langues: Les termes d'un dialogue, 71-86. Paris, Orizons.
Rast, R. (2011) "Input processing principles: A contribution from first exposure data". In C. Sanz & R. Leow (Eds.), Implicit and Explicit Conditions, Processes and Knowledge in SLA and Bilingualism, 129-141. Washington, DC, Georgetown University Press.
Rast, R. (2010) "First exposure: Converting target language input to intake". In M. Pütz & L. Sicola (Eds.), Cognitive Processing in Second Language Acquisition, 99-115. Amsterdam, John Benjamins.
Rast, R. (2008) Foreign Language Input: Initial Processing. Clevedon, Multilingual Matters.

TOEFL PUBLICATIONS

Martz, L. and Rast, R. (2006) 8 jours pour réussir le TOEFL. Paris, Ellipses.
Martz, L., Rast, R. and Fichaux, F. (2005) TOEFL: Epreuves d’entraînement, Paris, Ellipses.
Fichaux, F., Guillard, D., Martz, L. and Rast, R. (2004) Réussir le TOEFL. Paris, Ellipses.

EDITED VOLUMES

In Watorek, M., Arslangul, A. and Rast, R. (Eds.) (2021) Premières étapes dans l’acquisition des langues étrangères : dialogue entre acquisition et didactique des langues. Paris: Presses d’Inalco.
Han, Z-H. and Rast, R. (Eds.) (2014) First Exposure to a Second Language: Learners’ Initial Input Processing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rast, R. and Taïeb, E. (2008) Acquisition et Interaction en Langue Étrangère Savoirs et savoir-faire dans l’apprentissage et l’enseignement d’une langue étrangère (N° 27), Association Aile-Encrages, Université Paris 8, Saint-Denis.
Rast, R. and Trévisiol, P. (2006) Acquisition et Interaction en Langue Étrangère : L’Acquisition d’une Langue 3 (N° 24), Association Aile-Encrages, Université Paris 8.
Perdue, C. and Rast, R. (1999) Acquisition et Interaction en Langue Étrangère, Vol 1 : The Bilingual Person et Vol 2 : From Word to Structure, Association Aile-Encrages, Université Paris 8.

* Second language acquisition/learning

* Third and additional language acquisition/learning

* Psycholinguistics

* Foreign language teaching

* The interface between language acquisition research and language teaching

* Language in education

* Language learning during study abroad

* English as a second/foreign language

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Foreign Language Teaching

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The Interface Between Language Acquisition research and Language Teaching

Third and Additional Language Acquisition/Learning

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Anne-Marie Picard

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Professor Picard arrived at �� in the Fall of 2003 after obtaining her PhD from the University of Toronto and teaching at Western University (Canada) for 14 years.

She teaches and co-teaches courses in the French language and linguistics, literature and psychoanalysis (such as Entering Language: Becoming Human, Art, Women & Madness, Fairy Tales & Child Psychology, French Film & Fiction Now). She has recently founded a monthly joint Research & Teaching Interdisciplinary Seminar in French (FfIRE) with the Organisation international de la Francophonie to make the research of ��’s scholars and researchers better known.
In her own research and publications, she knits together literary theory and reading theory (i.e. the acquisition of the symbolic function) through structuralist psychoanalysis that renews psychoanalytic literary criticism. Her observations of non-reading children at Sainte-Anne's Hospital in Paris have allowed her to investigate the complexities of “the letter” and its mastery. In her book Lire délire. Psychanalyse de la lecture (Erès, 2010) - published in English From Illiteracy To Literature; Psychoanalysis And Reading (Routlege, 2017) -, she surmises that there are psychological and epistemological commonalities between children learning how to read and creative writers struggling with the letter. Her corpus of study is mainly composed of XXth and XXIth Century French writers (Colette, Sartre, Duras, Cixous, Hébert, Redonnet, Houellebecq, Angot, Michon…).
One reviewer of her book states :

« Anne-Marie Picard sketches an indispensable (and hitherto lacking) general theory of reading. Bridging the gap between infantile dyslexia and high modernist literature, she offers us a Lacanian guide to the letter, or How To Read with psychoanalysis." (Jean-Michel Rabaté, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, U. of Pennsylvania). (More reviews here).

“’La Littérature, un lieu qui n’existe pas et où on ne parle pas’ (Christine Angot) ». Colloquium : Narratives of the Therapeutic Encounter. (University of Edinburgh, Dec. 6th-7th 2017). Organizer : Susan Bainbrigge.
« Le corps du texte ou comment (ne pas) tuer la mère au nom de l’œuvre. » Colloquium : L’écriture du sacré dans l’œuvre de Pierre Michon (Universités Paris-Sorbonne et Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, 19- 20 May) – Organizing scientific Committee : Carole Auroy, Marie-Ève Benoteau-Alexandre, Denis Labouret, Alain Schaffner.
« Chloé Delaume : déplacer les limites, quelles limites ? » Contemporary Women's Writing in French (CWWF) Conference ‘Overstepping the Boundaries / Transgresser les limites: 21st-Century Women’s Writing in French’ which will be organized by the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing (Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London: Dec. 2016).

PhD - The University of Toronto
M.A. - Dalhousie University (NS, Canada)
Licence ès Lettres - Université de Rouen (France)

She has lately co-edited two journals special issues on « The Google Era » and « Tranlating Trump » in The American Journal SITES, Contemporary French & Francophone Studies.
Her latest articles accepted for publication compare Marguerite Duras and Christine Angot’s relationship to writing and analyze Angot’s personal involvement with psychanalysis.
« Duras, Angot : Les lieux communs de l’écriture » Descendance durassienne et écritures contemporaines. C. Rodgers, ed., Editions Passage(s) (forthcoming).
« La littérature, “un lieu qui n’existe pas et ou on ne parle pas” (Christine Angot) » Narratives of the Therapeutic Encounter. Susan Bainbrigge, ed., Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing (forthcoming)

Books

LIRE DELIRE, psychanalyse de la lecture. Erès Editions, coll. « psychanalyse & Ecriture », 2010. 184 pages. ISBN : 978-2-7492-1239-5 EAN : 9782749212395

Reviews:

Catherine Ferron. « Corps et lettres: Lire délire, psychanalyse de la lecture » (billets : notes de lecture). 02/01/2011 Association Lacanienne internationale. http://www.freudlacan.com/Champs_specialises/Billets_actualites/Corps_et_lettres
Lévy, Marc-Léopold. « Anne-Marie Picard, Lire délire. Psychanalyse de la lecture. Paris, ERES, 2010, 180 p. », Che vuoi, vol. 35, no. 1, 2011, pp. 193-194.

From Illiteracy to Literature : Psychoanalysis and Reading. trans. K. Valendinova (Routledge, 2017). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315659862

Auzanneau, M., Bailly, L., Bounes, M., Ferron, C., Kugler, M., Lemel, G., Lenoble, E., Meljac, C. & A-M. Picard. Les Impossibilités persistantes d’apprentissage de la lecture chez des sujets féminins en cours de scolarisation. Rapport au Ministère de l’emploi et de la solidarité du Gouvernement français (Groupe Permanent de Lutte contre l’Illettrisme, Mission Interministérielle), 1998, 240pp (30% of writing, editing).

Books & Journal Editing

Guest Editor. L’Ere Google?” SITES, Contemporary French & Francophone Studies, volume 23, issue 4 (September 2019).
Marc-Léopold Lévy. Eclats de jouissance : Ethique et Psychanalyse (textes réunis et annotés par A.-M. Picard), Erès Editeurs, Collection « Point Hors ligne », décembre 2017.
Guest Editor, Translating Trump/ Traduire Trump. SITES. Contemporary French and Francophone Studies.. 21. 5 (December 2017).
Guest editor. « Entre Symptôme et Pharmakon : Penser « aujourd’hui » en France, » L’Esprit créateur. Johns Hopkins U. P., Fall Issue, 2010.
Critique de la jouissance comme Une : Leçons de psychanalyse. By Marc-Léopold Lévy, Paris Editions Erès, 2003.
Guest Editor. L'Imaginaire de la théorie. TEXTE. 17/18 (Université de Toronto Press, 1996) : 345p.
Guest Editor. Mises en scènes du regard. Dalhousie French Studies. 31 (Summer 1995): 125p.

Chapters in books (peer-reviewed)

«‘Une fragile globalité’ : toucher, nommer, recomposer, séparer ». In Le Toucher. Prospections médicales, artistiques et littéraires. Maria de Jesus Cabral, ed., Editions Le Manuscrit, May 2019.
« La Grand Beune: le féminin de la mère… à tuer ou à écrire. » Pierre Michon : la littérature et le sacré. Paris : Editions Le Manuscrit Savoirs, Nov. 2019.
With Cary Hollinshead-Strick, « Les Misérables and the Literature of Paris. » in GINSBURG, Michal Peled et STEPHENS, Bradley (ed.). Approaches to Teaching Hugo's Les Misérables. Modern Language Association of America, 2018, pp. 104-111.
« Acte manqué ». Dictionnaire de la fatigue. Ed., Philippe Zawieja, Geneva: Editions Droz, 2016, pp. 37-40.
« Ennui ». Dictionnaire de la fatigue. Ed. Philippe Zawieja. Geneva : Éditions Droz, 2016, pp. 234-241.
"La singlerie de l’écrivain, au-delà du leurre de l’identité : Christine Angot". In Aventures et expériences littéraires, Écritures des femmes en France au début du vingt-et-unième siècle. Damlé, Amaleena et Gill Rye (Eds.), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill | Rodopi, 2014, pp. 19-37.
« L’autre, tel qu’en soi », in L'Autre, le semblable, le différent... René Frydman, éd., Presses Universitaires de France, « Hors collection », 2014, pp. 187-208.
“The Other Myself.” In Bridging Cultures: Intercultural Mediation in Literature, Linguistics and the Arts, C. Hogan, N. Rentel, S. Schwerter, eds. Stuttgart : ibidem-Verlag, November 2012, pp. 175-194; ISBN 13: 978-3-8382-0352-2
« Jouons-le à l’anglo-saxonne. Have I gone native ? Translations transatlantiques dans 'l'affaire DSK'. » in Les défis et enjeux de la médiation interculturelle. Nadine Rentel, Stephanie Schwerter, eds, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien: Pter Lang, 2012.
« Précarité du moi. Entre Symptôme et perversion. » in Le culte du moi dans la littérature francophone. Mokhtar Atallah, Ed.. Paris : L'Harmattan, 2012 (2nd edition), pp.139-170.
« Corps de lecteurs : se donner à lire », Le corps, porte-parole de l’enfant et de l’adolescent. Marika Bergès-Bounes éd., ERES, 2011, pp. 161-178.
« Ecorcher le miroir ; l’écriture, chimère du moi, dans La Vagabonde de Colette." in Phénoménologies de l’écriture de soi. Ed. M. Monseu, Presses de U. de Dijon, 2009.
« Martyres du moi: Ecriture et psychanalyse de l’autofiction, » in Autofiction, Eds. I. Grell et C. Burgelin Colloque de Cerisy, Presses universitaires de Lyon, 2010.
"Lol V. Stein ou comment représenter l’absence." (D’)écrire, dit‐elle : Prosopographie et Ethopie. P. Ligas & A. Giaufret, Qui Edit, 2007, pp. 103-112.
"NO FUTURE ! Le Désistement mélancolique de Michel Houellebecq." in Le Monde de Houellebecq. Ed. S. M. E. van Wesemael. Amsterdam, Londres: Rodopi, 2007, pp. 185-199.
"L’Enclave de l’écriture: jouissance, symptôme et création." In Création au féminin. Vol. I: "Littérature". Ed. Marianne Camus. Centre Image/Texte/Langage, Editions universitaires de Dijon, Coll. "Kaléidoscopes", 2006, 15-20.
"L’intime livré au danger : la solution onirique de Christine Angot." in L’intimité. Ed. L. Ibrahim & S. Muller, Presses de l’Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand (2005), 157-175.
"M.D., cette maladie contagieuse." in Les Lectures de Marguerite Duras. Ed. A. Saemmer & S. Patrice, Presses universitaires de Lyon, 2005, 201-212.
« Le Chasseur Zéro ou l’origine hallucinée de l’écriture." In Nouvelles écrivaines, nouvelles voix? N. Morello & C. Rogers, Eds., Amsterdam, Londres : Rodopi, Coll. « Faux titre », 2002.
« Falocentrismo ». Enciclopedia del postmodernismo, Madrid: Síntesis, 2002, 165-166.
"Cette Tombe est une source : le père de l’écriture." in Hélène Cixous : Croisées d’une œuvre. Mireille Calle-Gruber, éd., Paris : Galilée, 2000.
"Le Père de l'écriture : Writing within the Secret Father." in Hélène Cixous : Critical Impressions. Ed. T. Kohanski, New York : Gordon & Breach, 1998.
"Isosémie, métaphore et idéologie." in Sémantique, traduction et littérature. U. of Toronto Press, 1997.
"Le Retour de l'Autre : la lecture de la psychanalyse." in La Transmission du savoir analytique. C. Kègle, Ed., Québec : Nuit Blanche Editeur, 1995, 137-153.
"Le Nom du corps. Lecture du manque et savoir de son sexe dans la Vagabonde." Études littéraires, volume 26, number 1, été 1993, p. 33–46. https://doi.org/10.7202/501029ar
"Figuration du corps lisant." in Le Discours féminin dans la littérature du Québec. San Francisco, Paris: The Mellen Group, 1993, 83-98.

Articles published in journals (peer-reviewed)

A.-M. Picard, Roger Célestin. « Introduction » L’Ere Google? SITES, Contemporary French & Francophone Studies. 23. 4 (September 2019).
Anne-Marie Picard & Howard Jacobson (2017) Le Mot juste: An interview with Howard Jacobson by Anne-Marie Picard, SITES. Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 21:5, 456-462, DOI: 10.1080/17409292.2017.1437700
« Écrire au bord du gouffre : le Splendid Hôtel de Marie Redonnet. » Interférences littéraires, n°5, nouvelle série, "Le sujet apocalyptique", Christophe Meurée, Ed. (novembre 2010), pp. 31-42.
« Introduction : Entre Symptôme et Pharmakon : Penser aujourd’hui en France, » L’Esprit créateur. Johns Hopkins U. P., Fall Issue, 2010, pp. 1-17.
“THE READING BODY: Psychopathology, Magical Thinking & Literature”. « Littérature et psychanalyse. » RELIEF- Revue électronique de littérature française, Vol. 4, No 1 (Spring 2010): 102-122.
« Le livre de chair de l'enfant lecteur ou l'advenue au symbolique. » Subjectivité en mouvance. Subjectivity in Transition. RS/SI. Recherches sémiotiques. Semiotic Inquiry, 5, 3-1 (2005) : p. 73-90.
"Marie Redonnet, au nom du symbolique." in Ecriture en filigrane: Stategie testuali e editoriali del romanzo francese contemporaneo. Transparenze. Ed. Elisa Bricco. Gênes: San Marco dei Giustiniani, 2007, 193‐212 (trans. Cinzia Crozali).
"L’enfant du Torrent ou le sujet de l’œuvre en puissance." Voix et Images, 25. 1 (73), automne 1999, pp. 102–125.
"Poulou's Family Romance and the Book." Sartrian Studies International. Vol. 7 n° 2 (2001), 76-86 (trans. Basil Kingstone).
M. Kugler, C. Meljac, A.M. Picard, et al. "Les Echecs en lecture respectent-ils la parité? (2e partie) Filles et échecs et lecture: bilan de 15 ans d'expérience clinique," Neuropsychiatrie de l'Enfance et de l'Adolescence. 49 (2001): 53-71.
Kugler, C. Meljac, A.M. Picard, et al., "Les Echecs en lecture respectent-ils la parité? (1e partie) Filles, garçons et lecture: vue d'ensemble sur les travaux récents," Neuropsychiatrie de l'Enfance et de l'Adolescence. 48 (2000): 487-98.
"L’Enfant du Torrent ou le sujet de l’œuvre à venir." Voix et Images. XXV. 1. Rêves d’enfance. Special issue: 25th Anniversary (1999): 102-125.
"Cuisine désaffectée." in Turning Centuries. UWO Art Exhibition Catalogue (on Sheila's Butler's Work) (Oct. 99).
Meljac, Claire & Marie Kugler, en collaboration avec M. Auzanneau, L. Bailly, M. Bounes, C. Lemmel, E. Lenoble & A.-M. Picard. "Echecs en lecture: les garçons sont-ils plus exposés que les filles ?" Pratiques psychologiques. 3 (1998): 29-37 (20% conception, 75% editing & formatting).
"Le Grand Livre magique des enfants non lecteurs." Tangences. 54: Poétique du livre (Presses U. du Québec, 1997): 101-19.
"C’est tout. M.D.: la Transmission de la Passion." BIFFURES, Revue de Psychanalyse. 1: La Passion (Québec: Nuit Blanche Editeur, 1997): 171-182.
"L’Imaginaire de la théorie: Prologue." TEXTE. 17/18: L’Imaginaire de la théorie (U. of Toronto Press, 1995): i-xxiv. http://chass.utoronto.ca/french/litera/Revue_Texte/int17.PDF
"Arrêt sur image: identité et altérité chez Brossard et Redonnet." Dalhousie French Studies. 31: Mises en scènes du regard (1995): 101-112.
"Dans le Paysage, une figure féminine... à peine: le triptyque de Marie Redonnet.’" The Australian Journal of French Studies. 2. 12 (1994): 228-40.
"L’Autre à Tu-tête : la lettre de L’Immobile." Voix et Images, 19. 2 (56), hiver 1994, pp. 250–267.
« Les altérités du corps théâtral : notes de travail ». L'Annuaire théâtral : revue québécoise d’études théâtrales, n° 12, 1992, p. 137-147. DOI: 10.7202/041180ar
"Le Cinéma de Duras: théâtre du corps lisant. » in Elle Signe. Protée. 20. 3 (Presses U. du Québec, 1992): 81-86.
"Travestissement et paternité : la masculinité remade in the USA." Cinémas, vol. 1, 1-2, fall 1990, pp. 114–131.
"L'Indiade: Ariane's and Hélène's Conjugate Dreams." Modern Drama: Women and the Theatre (U. of Toronto Press: Spring 1989): pp. 24-38.
“L'Indiade Ou L'Inde De Leurs Rêves.” Dalhousie French Studies, vol. 17, 1989, pp. 17–26.
"Les Dés-Astres de l'Amour : Soleil Noir de Julia Kristeva." Université de Toronto Quarterly. 57. 4 (Summer 1988) : pp. 550-54.
"Les Des-Astres de l'Amour." University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 57 no. 4, 1988, p. 550-554.
Review of Féminins singuliers: Pratiques d’écriture: Brossard, Théoret, by Renée-Berthe Drapeau. University of Toronto Quarterly, 57. 1, 1987, pp. 200-201.
"Caractères fonctionnels et sémantiques du subjonctif français." Journal of the Linguistic Association of the Atlantic Provinces. 5 (1983): pp. 33-49.

Psychoanalysis
French language
French literature
Linguistics (Semantics)
Theories of Reading and Writing, Illiteracy
French Culture
France-USA cultural translation

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Professor Laure Pépin obtained a PhD in Theatre and Performance in 2016 from the University of Bristol, in England.

She taught Performance Forms and Analysis in this same University, exploring different ways in which elements of performance practices have been configured through cultural contexts. In Paris she taught theatre, acting, improvisation and she directed contemporary plays with the Candela Theatre Company.

Her current research, both practical and theoretical, is looking at gender issues on the art scene, how gender is performed and how it can raise political and social questions.

She has been working closely with influential French feminist artists such as ORLAN, Catherine Baÿ and Déborah de Robertis and is involved in French feminist activism (La Barbe, OLF…). Thus she investigates the links between performance, theatre and activism.

Working closely with the Théâtre du Mouvement, her artwork is focusing on deconstructing gender stereotypes through disarticulating the body and using movement techniques (Feldenkrais, Laban’s..), intending to create a new body language that is more coherent with our own fictions and definitions of selves.

Her artwork and research are now based in France mainly.

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DEBAT COUVERT – PARIS, France

Gender Stereotypes and Love.

2016

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTOM, UK

20th Century Studies Symposium
At Home and Abroad: Politics and Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century.

UNIVERSITY OF EXETER, UK

Postgraduate Research on Political Thoughts.

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2010 - 2016 UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL (UK)
PhD Theatre and Performance
Dissertation: ORLAN and Dismemberment in Feminist Contemporary Performances
Supervisor: Dr Paul Clarke
Committee: Dr Simon Jones, Dr Kara Reilly, Dr Catherine Hindson

2008 - 2009 NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY (UK)
MA Fine Art
Dissertation: The Female Body in Modern Society
Supervisors: Professor Danica Maier and Professor John Newling

2007 - 2008 LANCASTER UNIVERSITY / UNIVERSITE DE POITIERS (France) MA Arts du Spectacle / Theatre Studies (Erasmus exchange)
Dissertation: Cruelty in Contemporary Feminist British Theatre Supervisor: Dr Romain Jobez

2004 - 2007 UNIVERSITE DE POITIERS (France) BA Arts du Spectacle / Performing Arts

Pépin, L., 2015. The Female Body in Modern Society. Germany: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing.

Alcazar, L., Constantin, S., Delamare, E., Hutsol, A., Pépin, L., Shevchenko, I. and Stern, M., 2015. Manifeste Femen. France: Les Editions Utopia

2012 – 2013 THEATRE DU MOUVEMENT (Paris & Lectoure, France)

Research: Primitivism and the Organic in Contemporary Theatre.

2013 – THE WINDOW, CATHERINE BAŸ (Paris, France)

Research: Desynchronization between sound and voice in Contemporary Performances.

2009 – BROADWAY DIGITAL ART CENTRE (Nottingham, UK)

Research: Interactions Development between the audience and digital arts.

2023 Théâtre du Mouvement, artist residency, Lectoure, France
16-17 Backlit Gallery, associate artist, Nottingham, UK
15-16 Théâtre du Mouvement, associate artist, Paris, France
2013 Théâtre du Mouvement, artist residency, Paris, France
2009 New Art Exchange Gallery, artist residency, Nottingham, UK

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Professor Nieblas arrived at The American University of Paris (��) in the beginning of the 1990s to teach in the Summer program and the French Immersion program. After working with different publics, namely in the “Planning and Education Department” of the UNESCO, the “Japanese delegation” of the OECD, the “Cours d’Adultes de la Mairie de Paris” (ACMA), the ESLSCA where she received an “Outstanding Professor Award”, and the Ecole des Mines, she joined the French department of �� as a language and drama teacher for the year.

She teaches all levels of language. Her interest for language acquisition has pushed her to study diverse languages, such as English, Spanish, Italian and German in high school and University. Besides – by curiosity – she initiated herself to other languages like Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, Swedish. She collaborated to the elaboration of a language method… by phone!

She has also done translations for diverse reviews and worked as an interpreter for a disc production.
She – while continuing her studies – followed a drama formation at the Cours Simon, as well as other drama courses and workshops. She also worked as a professional actress with different drama companies, in Paris and elsewhere.
She is currently teaching a course on drama at �� – “Acting in French” – in addition to her language courses.

Octobre 2007, Animation d’un atelier au Colloque «Savoirs et savoir-faire dans l’apprentissage et l’enseignement d’une langue étrangère» The Center of Language Research and Teaching à The American University of Paris.

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Maîtrise de Français Langue Etrangère, Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle
Maîtrise de linguistique française, Paris IV – Sorbonne
Licence de Lettres Modernes, Paris IV - Sorbonne
Licence d'espagnol, Paris IV – Sorbonne
D.E.U.G. de Lettres Modernes - Paris IV - Sorbonne
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Member of the Société Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences et de la Philosophie Arabes et Islamiques (S. I. H. S. P. A. I.)
Member of the CERMOM, Centre de Recherches Moyen-Orient Méditerranée, INALCO (EA4091), axes « Relecture de l’héritage classique » et « Langues et linguistique »
Member of the Hiscant-MA, Histoire et Cultures de l’Antiquité et du Moyen Âge, Université de Lorraine (EA 1132), axes « Philologie, littérature et philosophie » et « Traditions et réceptions antiques et post-antiques des cultures méditerranéennes »

Professeur agrégé (highest national education exam in the French Public system) and Maître de conférences in Université de Lorraine, Fouad Mlih has taught Arabic language and literature for more than 10 years in Sorbonne University before joining Université de Lorraine.

He's been teaching Arabic in �� since 2007 in both undergraduate and graduate programs.

His research focuses today in Arabic philosophy and its links with the knowledge of kalām (theology) and the realm of adab (literature and sciences).

PhD (2014) : « Le Kitāb al-Ğadal d’Avicenne : un traité de théologie philosophique ? Présentation, traduction et commentaire du Livre I », EPHE (École Pratique des Hautes Études)
Agregation, highest national education exam
MA (Maitrise) University of Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne
BA (Licence) University of Paris VIII ; Jussieu Diderot Paris VII

on-going publication : Le Kitāb al-Ğadal d’Ibn Sīnā, traduction et commentaire du Livre I, éditions Vrin
« L’arabe, langue du monde », table ronde organisée par la revue Orient XXI, lecture at Maghreb des Livres, paris, February 2020
« Une image des dialecticiens et des théologiens dans le Kitāb al-Ğadal d’Ibn Sīnā », colloque Société Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences et de la Philosophie Arabes et Islamiques (S. I. H. S. P. A. I.) Science, philosophy and kalām in Islamic civilisation :the old and the new, Naples, september 2019
« Ğadal philosophique, dialectique des théologiens : l’intervention avicennienne » (Université Lyon III, Faculté des Langues, January 2018)
Kullo Tamam, palier 1, Delagrave, Paris, 2006
Kullo Tamam, palier 2, Delagrave, Paris, 2007
Yawmiyyat Choubchoub, Manuel de Primaire, Beirut, 2006-2006-8

Classical Arabic Literature, adab, kalām, islamology, philosophy, dialectics, Arabic Thought

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Memory Studies Association
Modern Language Association
International Association of Genocide Scholars
British Comparative Literature Association
Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies
Northeast Modern Language Association
Women in French

Professor Laurent began teaching at �� in 2021. At ��, she teaches French as well as courses on Francophone cultures and literatures. Before joining ��, she taught Postcolonial Studies at Sciences Po - Saint-Germain-en-Laye in France, African and Comparative Literature at King's College London in England, and French Language and Romance Literatures at Harvard University in the United States.

Laurent's research deals with twentieth- and twenty-first-century French and Francophone literatures and cultures, with special emphasis on Metropolitan France, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia. Her book manuscript, The Words of Others: Remembering and Writing Genocide as an Indirect Witness, examines literary and graphic representations of genocidal violence. She focuses on the Holocaust, the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, and the Khmer Rouge genocide and mass killings in Cambodia. Specifically, by connecting the authors’ representational strategies to critical theories related to memory studies, she examines how indirect witnesses, that is individuals who did not literally or personally experience genocide, problematize their own testimonial acts. Her newest project entitled Connected Histories of (Post)Coloniality: Circulation and Reception of Art Representing a Diverse Francophone Past considers the representation and dissemination of histories through art forms, with the aim of dismantling a monolithic national(istic) narrative. By insisting on their creation, their circulation, and their reception, she shows how these historical representations encourage the formation of a new heritage that encompasses different communities. The foregoing creative processes also point to their perpetual transformation that would allow for new decolonized epistemologies and ways to illuminate the past in a context which is Francophone, but also alive in its plural, global, as well as multilingual realities.

“Reclaiming Việt Nam: Memory and Embodied Transmission in Papin’s Les Os des filles.” Women, Memory, and Intergenerational Transmission in the Francophone World. Women in French Australia. Virtual Seminar Series, 29 November 2023.
“The Presence of Perec’s Je me souviens… in Francophone Works or How to Create a Literary Memory of Past Traumatic Events.” Perec : Je me souviens. Je me souviens de Perec. Perec: I remember. I remember Perec. MLA Convention 2023. San Francisco, 5-8 January 2023.
“Passé, exil et souffrance : le corps-archive dans Les Os des filles de Line Papin.” SELF XX-XXI – Expériences. Paris, 16-18 June 2022.
“(Mi)Lieu de mémoire: Southeast Asian Identities in Paris’s Chinatown.” Postcolonial Realms of Memory: Sites and Symbols in the Modern Francosphere. Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies. Florida State University. Tallahassee, 7-8 October 2021.
“Entomological Re-Appropriation of Propagandist Rhetoric: From Inyenzi to Phalène in Koulsy Lamko.” Narrating Violence: Making Race, Making Difference. Nordic Summer University Study Circle Narrative and Violence and The George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights, and Conflict Prevention at The American University of Paris. Paris, 29-31 March 2021.
“Through Mati Diop’s Eyes: Representing Social and Gender Realities of Women in Senegal.” Visual Africa: Francophone Women’s Aesthetic Representations of Africa (WiF Roundtable), NeMLA Conference 2021. Virtual Convention, 11-14 March 2021.
“‘Je’ to ‘Tu’ in Loo Hui Phang’s L’Imprudence: Siblings in Stories of Migration and Exile.” Siblings in French and Francophone Literature, NeMLA Conference 2021. Virtual Convention, 11-14 March 2021.
“Forgetting and Remembering France’s Tirailleurs Sénégalais.” MemWar – Memory and Oblivion of Twentieth-Century Wars and Trauma. Università di Genova. Virtual Conference, 9-11 December 2020.
“Secrets de famille et compulsion spectrale dans Cent mille journées de prières de Hui Phang et Sterckeman.” Squelettes, ectoplasmes et fantômes. Angoulême – CIBDI, 18-19 November 2020.
“Hybridity and Writing: The Representation of Violence in Rwanda and Burundi.” Narrating Genocide (Roundtable), NeMLA Conference 2020. Boston, 5-8 March 2020.
“Being and Belonging: from ‘I’ to ‘We’ in Clément Baloup’s Việt Kiều Memoirs.” Narrative Voice in Autobiographical Graphic Novels, NeMLA Conference 2020. Boston, 5-8 March 2020.
“‘Presque malgré nous, nous commencions de nous établir en ces lieux où nous n’avions pensé que passer’: Migration and Embodied Silence in Franco-Vietnamese Literature.” Narratives of Forced Migration in The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. University of Stirling. Stirling, 16-18 September 2019.
“‘Je l’ai cherchée sans plus y croire’: Victims and Survivors of the Khmers Rouges in La Colline empoisonnée by Poustochkine.” “The Missing Picture”: Rethinking Genocide Studies and Prevention, International Association of Genocide Scholars 2019 Conference. American University of Phnom Penh. Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 14-19 July 2019.
“Listening to Others: Writing the Rwandan Genocide as an Indirect Witness.” Thinking with Jean-Luc Nancy, Oxford International Conference 2019. Oxford, 28-30 March 2019.
“Violence, or the Memory of Childhood in Gaël Faye’s Petit Pays.” ASAUK: African Studies Association in the UK 2018 Conference. University of Birmingham. Birmingham, 11-13 September 2018.
“‘Résister, par tous les moyens’: Mobilisation in the Dystopian Political Work of Karim Amellal’s Bleu Blanc Noir.” Sous les pavés, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies Colloquium. Brown University. Providence, 12-14 April 2018.
“The Haunting Image and Memorial Construction: Tuol Sleng in French Comic Books.” ACLA Conference 2017. Utrecht University. Utrecht, the Netherlands, 6-9 July 2017.
“‘C’est le chemin qui décide de l’endroit où tu vas atterrir:’ The Plural Representation of Migration in Barroux and Bessora’s graphic novel Alpha.” Cincinnati Conference on Romance and Arabic Languages & Literatures. University of Cincinnati. Cincinnati, 31 March-1 April 2017.
“Beyond Borders: How to ‘Openly’ Speak of the Rwandan Genocide Through Literature.” Global Trajectories: Towards New Critical Horizons, Inaugural French and Francophone Graduate Conference. Harvard University. Cambridge, 12 May 2016.
“Between Life and Death, Past and Present: The Heritage of a Specter in La Phalène des collines by Lamko.” Passages, Seuils, Portes, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies Colloquium. St. Louis, 17-19 March 2016.
“Mémoire et Imag(e)ination: La Représentation de la violence et du génocide cambodgien par l’art séquentiel.” Sequential Art and Catastrophes: Comics, Mangas, Graphic Novels. Université Paris 3- Sorbonne Nouvelle. Paris, 11- 13 February 2016.
“Le Génocide rwandais: Voix collective et mémoire multidirectionnelle (Moisson de crânes de Waberi).” Congress of the Conseil International d’Etudes Francophones. San Francisco, 29 June-6 July 2014.
“The Pain of Incest in Déwé Gorodé’s L’Épave: from the Individual to the Caledonian Nation.” The Poetics of Pain, Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference. CUNY. New York, 25-26 February 2010.

Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures. Harvard University, 2016.
M.Phil. in European Literature and Culture. Christ's College, The University of Cambridge, 2006.
BA (Hons) in Comparative Literature and History & Social Sciences. The American University of Paris, 2004.

“Caine Prize 2023: Senegalese writers win for fantasy-horror story about dangers facing girls.” The Conversation Africa. 16 October 2023.
“Mohamed Mbougar Sarr: Senegalese novelist's win is a landmark for African literature.” The Conversation Africa. 9 November 2021.
“Goncourt Literary Prize - Senegal's Mohamed Mbougar Sarr wins prestigious award.” Eye on Africa, France 24. 3 November 2021.
“David Diop: his haunting account of a Senegalese soldier that won the Booker prize.” The Conversation Africa. 3 June 2021.
“Our World in Graphics.” Audio blog post with Haya Alfarhan. Arts and Humanities Now. King’s College London, 7 August 2019.

Articles

“The Haunting Image and Memorial Construction for the 1.5 Generation: S-21/Tuol Sleng in Francophone Sequential Art.” Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum: A Multifacted History of the Khmer Rouge Crimes, edited by Stéphanie Benzaquen-Gautier and Anne-Laure Porée, Brill, 2024, pp. 226-44.
“Secrets de famille et fantômes/compulsion spectrale dans Cent mille journées de prières de Hui Phang et Sterckeman.” Squelettes, ectoplasmes et fantômes, edited by Frédéric Chauvaud and Denis Mellier, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2023, pp. 119-41.
“Mémoire et Imag(e)ination : La Représentation de la violence et du génocide cambodgien par l’art séquentiel.” Art séquentiel et catastrophes, edited by Charlotte Krauss and Françoise Lavocat, Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2022, pp. 275-96.
“Embodiment and Transmission: An Interview with Franco-Cambodian cartoonist Tian Veasna.” Interview with Angelica P. So. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, vol. 13, no. 3, 2022, pp. 486-98. DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2021.1934054
“Vers une mémoire partagée des tirailleurs sénégalais.” MemWar - Memorie e oblii delle guerre e dei traumi del XX secolo, edited by Roberto Francavilla, Anna Giaufret, and Laura Quercioli Mincer, Genova UP, 2021, pp. 51-68.
“Voyageurs malgré eux: Silence, Embodiment, and Exposure in Doan Bui and Minh Tran Huy.” French Cultural Studies, vol. 32, no. 4, 2021, pp. 346-63. DOI: 10.1177/09571558211025908
“Le génocide rwandais : L’Ecrivain-témoin indirect comme ‘donneur d’échos’ dans Moisson de crânes de Waberi.” Nouvelles études francophones, edited by Nicoletta Dolce and Irena Trujic, vol. 30, no. 1, University of Nebraska Press, Spring 2015, pp. 79-90. DOI: 10.1353/nef.2015.0035

20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone Literatures;
Comparative Genocide Studies;
History and Memory;
Psychoanalysis;
Postcolonial Studies;
Diaspora Literature;
Cultural Studies;
Graphic Novels and Narratives;
Popular Culture

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