Thomas D’Amato<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nThomas D’Amato<\/strong> is a professeur agr\u00e9g\u00e9 de Lettres Modernes<\/em> and a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University. In 2017, he earned a Master\u2019s degree summa cum laude in French Literatures from the Sorbonne (Paris IV) with two theses engaging with Gender Studies and Psychoanalysis. The first one focused on the presence of hysteria in medieval French literary and religious texts. The second one revolved around the seducer\u2019s figure in several interwar period French novels. After teaching literature in high schools for three years, he joined the French Ph.D. program at Johns Hopkins University in 2021, where he could further develop his interest in Environmental Humanities. In 2023, Thomas co-created the Graduate Working Group on Environmental Humanities at Johns Hopkins University, which gathers graduate students from various departments and allows them to read and discuss recent publications in Environmental Humanities as well as present their works in progress. His current research focuses on the features of the relationship between a subjectivity facing a situation of crisis and its natural environment in 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone literature. His research interests include Ecocriticism, Environmental Humanities, Eco Phenomenology, and Affect Theory.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n