Organisation of scientific events

1. 2025 (17 April), SUAD. Study day « Écrire en français » (Alain Ausoni, Anne Godard, Karine Germoni, Alvaro Luna-Dubois). Coorganized with New York University Abu Dhabi. 

2. 2024 (6 November), SUAD. Seminar LLIA (Lettres, Langues, Intelligence artificielle).

Lecture and workshop by Alexandre Gefen, « Faire face à l’intelligence artificielle dans l’enseignement et la recherche »

3. 2024 (22 November), SUAD. Seminar LLIA (Lettres, Langues, Intelligence artificielle), coorganized with Moones Aref. Workshop conducted by:

o Marc Oddou « Découvrir l’intelligence artificielle (IA) et ses potentialités en tant qu’assistant pédagogique pour l’enseignement »

o Arunkumar Santhalingam « Analyse prédictive et suivi des performances en classe de FLE via l’intelligence artificielle (IA) »

4. 2024 (20 February), SUAD. Study day « Traduire les cultures : le français au miroir des autres langues », coorganized with New York University Abu Dhabi. 

5. 2024 (29 February), SUAD. Study day « Écrire en français langue autre au XXIe siècle », coorganized with New York University Abu Dhabi.

6. 2024 (25-26 April), SUAD. International Symposium « Écrire en français langue autre au XXIe siècle », coorganized with New York University Abu Dhabi and SU (Faculty of arts and Humanities, STIH, EA 4509), sponsorised by Air France et labelled by Festival de la Francophonie 2024 (Villers-Cotterêts).

7. 2024 (3-4 March), Al-Albayt University (Mafraq). International Symposium « Trajectoires et discours contemporains d’écrivaines dans et sur le monde arabe », coorganized with Al-Albayt University (Jordan).

8. 2023 (26 October), SUAD. Study day « Beckett aux Émirats arabes unis », sponsored by the Irish Embassy, in partnership with the French Embassy and the Libanese Embassy. 

9. 2022 (23 February), SUAD. Anne Abeillé’s lecture, « La Grande Grammaire du français, un livre et un projet hors norme ». 

10. 2020 (26-28 May), SU, ENS-Ulm, Bibliothèque Jacques Doucet. International and interdisciplinary Symposium « (Con)figurations formelles du repentir », coorganized with R. de Villeneuve. [cancelled because of Covid-19]

11. 2018-2019, ENS-Ulm. Seminar Textyle « Épanorthose, correction, palinodie et alia : des figures du repentir », coorganized with R. de Villeneuve.

12. 2018 (5-6 June), SU and ENS-Ulm. International Symposium Aux marges des discours rapportés : approches diachroniques et génériques des discours rapportés louches et atypiques, coorganized with C. Stolz.

13. 2018, January, Lorraine University and SU. International Symposium L’écriture entre deux mondes de Marie Darrieussecq, 26 janvier (Université de Lorraine) et 29 janvier (SU), coorganized with C. Narjoux and S. Lawson.

14. 2017-2018, SU and ENS-Ulm. Seminar Formes atypiques des discours rapportés, coorganized with C. Stolz and A.-M. Paillet. 

15. 2017 (22 June), SU. Study day Discours direct et discours direct libre dans les fictions littéraires narratives du XXIe siècle, coorganized with C. Stolz.

16. 2017, April, Poitiers University and SU. Symposium Éditions Verticales 1997-2017 : éditer et écrire debout, 13-14 (Université de Poitiers) et 18 avril 2017 (SU), coorganized with A. Adler, S. Bikialo, C. Narjoux, les éditions Verticales and Maison de la poésie (Paris).

17. 2015 (8 November), SU. Agrégation day for French Language UFR, coorganized with C. Silvi. 

18. 2014 (June 3rd), AMU. Lecture of Jean Rouaud, Comment écrire la guerre ?

19. 2014 (5 February), AMU. Organisation of the ‘Writing with Julia Deck’ workshop, in partnership with the Agence régionale du livre PACA. Co-leading stylistic and genetic writing workshops (with C. Robet and J.-M. Quaranta) with students and high school pupils, prior to the meeting and work with the author.

20. 2012 (23-25 May), AMU. International Symposium Existe-t-il un style Minuit ?, coorganized with M. Bertrand and A. Jauer.

21. 2011 (17 October), AMU. Study day Le Mexique de Le Clézio, coorganized with A. Jauer and S. Requemora-Gros.

22. 2009 (11-13 June, AMU). Symposium Classicisme et Modernité dans le théâtre d'Eugène Ionesco, coorganized with M.-C. Hubert and M. Bertrand.

23. 2008 (5-6 June), AMU. Symposium Onirisme et engagement dans le théâtre d'Adamov, coorganized with M.-C. Hubert and M. Bertrand.

24. 2006 (14-17 June), AMU. International and bilingual Symposium Beckett et les quatre éléments/Beckett and the four natural elements.

25. 2004 (9-11 June), AMU. International Symposium Les formes de la réécriture au théâtre, coorganized with M.-C. Hubert and C. Flicker.

My research focuses on the study of language and style in contemporary French and Francophone literature (XXth and XXIrst centuries), and has five main strands: punctuation, as a grammatical, poetic and stylistic object; correction, on an orthographic and orthotypographic, editorial and figural level; variation, in literary genres (mainly novel and theatre), textual genetics and transtextuality; translation and French as a foreign language/other; writing about women and consent. What unites all my work is the questioning of the notion of ‘passage’, in the sense of ‘crossing’, as well as its linguistic and generic modalities, whether it be the passage from one literary genre to another, from one language to another, from one creative hand to another (from the editorial function to the writer and vice versa), from one genetic state of the text to another throughout the creative writing process, whether this passage takes place in the mode of respect for rules, conventions and norms, or conversely, of transgression.

I’ve studied the work of many writers of XXth and XXIrst centuries who are border-crossers, translingual and intercultural bridges builders, literally speaking, or because of their nomadic and in-between creative process: Samuel Beckett, Laurent Mauvignier, Julia Deck, Tanguy Viel, and other writers from éditions de Minuit, Jean Rouaud, Marie Darrieussecq, Ryoko Sekiguchi, Raymond Cousse, Le Clézio, Nicolas Bouvier, Maylis de Kerangal, Arno Bertina, and other writers from éditions Verticales, collectif Inculte, Shumona Sinha, Hala Moughanie, Shenaz Patel, Elisa Shua Dusapin, Robert Merle, André Gide, Marguerite Duras, Eugène Ionesco, Jean Genet, Blaise Cendrars, Simone de Beauvoir, and so on.

I have organized many scientific events (9 in SUAD) to which I have invited writers for round-table discussions open to a wide audience, including experts. My research activity is thus closely linked to the cultural activities I am organizing (18 cultural events in SUAD) and the dissemination of academic knowledge provided through those activities. I am actually willing to provide a living snapshot of what’s happening in literature today and to anchor the university as a place of scholarly knowledge in the community, so that knowledge can be disseminated and shared. As the writers I am working on, I am doing my best to be a bridge-builder between the university and the community, between cultures and disciplines, and between people I’m working with.