| Position | Associate Professor |
|---|---|
| Faculty | French Language and Literature |
| Graduate School | French Language and Literature |
| Department | French Language and Literature |
Career
| November 2015: | PhD in French Literature, University Paris Diderot (Paris 7) |
| April 2024: | Appointed to the Faculty of Letters, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo |
Research Area
1) 20th century French Literature
Georges Perec (1936-1982)
2) Literary criticism
Roland Barthes (1915-1980)
Intertextuality
Trauma studies
My research focuses on French literature after World War II, especially the work of Georges Perec (1936-1982) that exemplifies several major questions of the 20th century (formal hybridity, renewal of autobiography, representation of the Holocaust). Through different examples, I analyzed the fact that his use of intertextuality had to be understood both as a writing process, an esthetic value in a sociohistorical field, and an existential answer to trauma. More recently, even though Perec, as many avant-garde artists, is more often read in a formal approach, I focused on the necessity of moral philosophy and stated that his novels deal with the interrogation of human existence (violence, failure, care).
I am also interested in literary criticism and history of thought, focusing on Roland Barthes (1915-1980). Especially, my research focuses on the history of forms, the notion of writing or the use of montage in relation with the aesthetic of Modernity.
