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I have studied Comparative Literature in France (Strasbourg, Poitiers), Poland (Warsaw) and Canada. I received my PhD in 2017 from both Western University and the University of Poitiers, France, and I have taught French language and literature at Western and King's University college. I have also worked in the Cultural services of the French Embassy in Canada, where I promoted student exchanges and academic cooperation.
- Fantastic literature from late 18th Century to present.
- French and European Cinema; Adaptation; Relations between Literature and Cinema; Intermediality.
- Literary theory; Transfictionality; Narratology; Theory of reading and spectatorship.
- Critical theory; Theory of image; Film theory.
- Memory and trauma in fantastic literature and films; political and historical dimensions of fantastic motives in fiction.
I am currently participating in an International research project called MATRIOChCa (Matrice et observatoire des Chemins cachés entre les arts), led by a network called Intercripol (Internationale de la Critique Policière), for which I am co-chairing the Canadian section.
- “Stories ad infinitum : Embedded Narratives and Challenges in Adapting Saragossa Manuscript”. In Where is Adaptation?, Ed. Cassie Hermansson and Janet Zepernick: Johns Benjamins, 2018. Pp. 381-398.
- “L’intermédialité aléatoire ou les rapports secrets entre littérature et cinéma”, Traits-d’union iss. 8, 2018, Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle.
- “Déplacer l’adaptation chez le lecteur et le spectateur (Potocki et Has)”. In Le cinéma de la littérature. Ed. Jean Cléder and Frank Wagner, Nantes: Éditions Nouvelles Cécile Defaut, 2017. Pp. 63-76.
- “État de nature, îles désertes et durée : analyse de quelques écrits de Gilles Deleuze sur Jean-Jacques Rousseau (cours de la Sorbonne 1959-1960 et textes parus dans L’île déserte), Le Monde français du dix-huitième siècle, iss. 1, December 2016.
- “De Caligari à Hoffmann: quelques traces de cinéma expressionniste dans Der Sandmann ”, Otrante vol.39. Paris : Kimé, 2016. Pp. 29-41.
- “The Mill, The Mirror and the Divided Self: Wojciech Has’ film adaptation of James Hogg’s Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner”. Interfaces Text/Image vol.37, Appropriation and Reappropriation of Narratives, 2017. Pp. 141-162.
- “Théophile Gautier, Le Pied de momie : Quelle méthode d'analyse littéraire dans le cadre d'une sémiotique de la lecture?", RELIEF iss. 8, vol. 2, 2014.
- “La mannequination : un procédé moderne d’érotisme chez Bruno Schulz”. Slavica bruxellensia iss. 9, 2013.
- “‘Comment concilier les deux choses ?' : de la figure du double à l’écriture du treizième mois dans les récits de Bruno Schulz et dans leur adaptation cinématographique, La Clepsydre de Wojciech Has (1973).”, Otrante : Arts et Littératures fantastiques t.32. Paris: Kimé, 2012. Pp. 281-298.
- FR 435: Literature in Revolt