Currently a PhD Student in the French Department at Yale University, I graduated from the École Normale Supérieure (Ulm) in 2014 and earned a Master degree from the University of Paris-IV Sorbonne (2012) with a thesis focused on two poetic collectio
...MoreCurrently a PhD Student in the French Department at Yale University, I graduated from the École Normale Supérieure (Ulm) in 2014 and earned a Master degree from the University of Paris-IV Sorbonne (2012) with a thesis focused on two poetic collections by Louis Aragon. Before starting my PhD at Yale, I was a Visiting Lecturer at Smith College for two years and a Teaching Assistant at UMass Amherst for one year. I am currently working on my thesis, entitled “The Last Tourists: Jean-Paul Sartre, Violette Leduc, Michel Houellebecq, Marie NDiaye – Reinventing the consumed space”. My hypothesis is that with the apparition of mass tourism starting in the 1950's and its apogee at the turn of the new century, it became impossible for these authors to write about travel in the traditional form of "travel writing". Facing both an identity crisis and crisis of representation, they tried to invent a new form, that I call "tourist narratives", with the aim of both representing and destroying mass tourism as a valid travel option. My dissertation aims to explore the characteristics of this new form and to show how the apparition of mass tourism changed the genre of travel literature in France.
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Tourism and Leisure Studies
