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Thomas D’Amato<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

tdomato2@jhu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thomas 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

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Jean-Ederson Jean-Pierre<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

jjeanpi3@jhu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jean-Ederson Jean-Pierre<\/strong> is a PhD candidate at Johns Hopkins University. His dissertation focuses on the writing of history in the Francophone postcolonial context. He holds an MA in French and Francophone Studies and a BA in Sociology. He was recognized as both the Best Master\u2019s Student in French and Outstanding Teaching Assistant at Syracuse University. Jean-Ederson spent a full academic year studying at the \u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure (Paris) and previously attended the Sorbonne University\u2019s Summer School. In addition to his peer-reviewed articles and book reviews, he is the co-author, with Dr. Frenand L\u00e9ger, of a fourteen-chapter advanced Haitian Creole textbook, titled Literati Lakay: Advanced Haitian-Creole Language and Culture through Authentic Literary Texts for Proficient Users<\/em> (Montr\u00e9al: BouquinBec, 2025). He is currently completing, in collaboration with Dr. L\u00e9ger, an intermediate-level Haitian Creole textbook.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Annie Lulu<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

alulu1@jh.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Annie Lulu<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong> is a PhD student in the French Program at Johns Hopkins\u2019 Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. She graduated in Philosophy at the Sorbonne and earned two certificates in Criminal and Criminological Sciences at Paris Pantheon-Assas university. Her research interests reflect her singular cultural upbringing between an African and an Eastern European background, embracing French and francophone modernity\u2019s avant-garde transcultural poets and novelists, from the Congolese post-colonial poetry and fiction works of Tchicaya U\u2019Tamsi and Sony Labou Tansi, to the works of Benjamin Fondane and the interwar French writing poets of the Romanian Jewish artistic exile in Paris, as well as the rare Romani francophone literary productions, in particular the works of the sole 20th<\/sup> century French Roma novelist, Matt\u00e9o Maximoff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A multi-awarded francophone creative writer, her first novel, \u201cLa Mer Noire dans les Grands Lacs\u201d received the Senghor Prize, the Alain-Fournier prize, the first edition of the Cocteau literary prize, and was a finalist to several francophone awards such as the Grand Prix du Roman M\u00e9tis<\/em> or the Ahmadou Kourouma Prize of the International African Geneva Bookfair. She received the Prix du Roman d’\u00c9cologie<\/em> 2023 for her second novel, \u201cPeine des Faunes\u201d. Along with novels and essays, she regularly writes for poetry reviews and contemporary art books, such as \u201cRecaptioning Congo\u201d, a collective exhibition catalog (New York Times Best Art Books of 2022).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Wanyun Luo<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

wluo16@jhu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wanyun Luo<\/strong><\/strong> holds an M.A. in French Language and Literature at Peking University, with a thesis regarding the representation of faces in Jean Cocteau’s works. In 2016-2017, she was a visiting student at SciencesPo Paris and in 2020, at L’\u00c9cole normale sup\u00e9rieure de Lyon. Her research is centered on the history, representation and philosophy of the face, and the ways in which words, images and sounds participate in the perception and memory of human faces. Wanyun’s longtime interest in visual arts has triggered her reading of modern and contemporary French writers who write about arts, and later, her investigation on the procedures of the writing of the art history. Wanyun is also a dedicated multi-lingual translator (French, English, Chinese) in contemporary literature and theatre.  <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Julianne Mehra<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

jmehra2@jhu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Julianne Mehra <\/strong>is a PhD student in the French Program of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins University. She graduated magna cum laude <\/em>and Phi Beta Kappa<\/em> from Dartmouth College, with a BA in Comparative Literature and a thesis exploring music and literature in the context of French Enlightenment aesthetics. Her current research focuses on the eighteenth-century French conception of the sublime in literature and theater. She also serves as an editorial assistant for the MLN French Issue. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Camille Roche<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

croche12@jhu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Camille Roche<\/strong> <\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>is a PhD student in the French Program of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. Her research interest centers on the writings of the self (journals, diaries, letters, autofiction, and other autobiographical forms) in the 20th<\/sup> century, specifically works produced by French authors writing in the American context. She also cultivates a strong interest in Documentary Photography (which she practices). Prior to joining JHU, she earned her MA in French Literature from Paris-IV Sorbonne (now Paris Sorbonne Lettres) and worked for several years in finance and publishing. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Julien Tribott\u00e9<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

jtribot11@jhu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Julien Tribott\u00e9<\/strong> possesses a rich multidisciplinary background. Holding degrees in philosophy, art history, and cinema from the \u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure (Ulm) and the Sorbonne, he brings a diverse perspective to his academic pursuits. His research centers on contemporary French literature, specifically exploring the theme of flight through the works of notable authors such as Annie Ernaux, \u00c9douard Louis, Michel Houellebecq, Paul B. Preciado, and Alain Damasio. Among his literary accomplishments is the novel ‘Chronicle of a Love,’ published by Anne Carri\u00e8re editions.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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