Biography
I joined the Oberlin faculty in 2023, following my role as a Visiting Assistant Professor in French and Francophone studies at the University of California-Irvine. I received my PhD in Romance studies from Duke University in 2020, after defending my dissertation, “Troubles in Representation: (Con)figuring Non-Binary Sex in 19th-Century French Literature, Art, and Medicine.” During my doctoral studies, I was a pensionnaire étrangère at both the École normale supérieure (Ulm) and the École normale supérieure de Lyon, as well as a visiting scholar at the Université Paris-Diderot.
I specialize in 19th- and 20th-century French literature and culture, art history, visual studies, cinema, gender and sexuality studies, medical humanities, and critical theory.
I am currently working on my first book, an interdisciplinary study that explores specters of Greco-Roman antiquity in nineteenth-century French articulations of androgyny and “hermaphroditism,” or what we now typically call “intersex.”
At Oberlin, I teach courses in French language, literature, and culture, along with overseeing the Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Program in French.
