Born 06/01/1989 in Paris (France)

2010-(2013) PhD in Children’s Literature – University of Cambridge (UK). Fully funded by the AHRC.

2009-2010 MPhil in Children’s Literature (Distinction) – University of Cambridge (UK)

2006-2009 BA in Education & English Literature (1st class) – University of Cambridge (UK)

2005 French Baccalauréat (Mention Très Bien) – Lycée Henri IV, Paris (France)

• Publications

(In press, 2012) Chapter: ‘Romance, Dystopia and the Hybrid Child’, in The Emergent Adult, ed. by M. Hilton & M. Nikolajeva. London: Ashgate.

Review of the Handbook of Research on Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Edited by Shelby A. Wolf, Karen Coats, Patricia Enciso, and Christine A. Jenkins. London: Routledge, 2011. Published in Teacher Development, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 399-401 (September 2011).

Article: ‘“A nightmare land, a place of death”: An exploration of the moon as a motif in Hergé’s Destination Moon (1953) and Explorers on the Moon (1954)’
Published in Children’s Literature in Education, Vol.41, n.3 (September 2010).

• Conferences

The Child and the Book Conference: Cambridge (UK), 30th March-1st April 2012. Paper presented: ‘Towards a philosophy of children’s literature.’

Irish Research in Children’s Literature Conference: Dublin (Ireland), 25-26 February 2012. Paper presented: ‘Microcosmic and macrocosmic change in politically transformative children’s literature.’

History and Theory of the Picturebook: Tübingen (Germany), 22-24 September 2011. Paper presented at the PhD Workshop: ‘Addressing the child as a political agent in two radical picturebooks.’

UKLA conference 2011: Chester (UK), 15-17 July 2011. Paper presented: ‘Platonic education in the Harry Potter series.’

The Child and the Book 2011: Oslo (Norway), 8-10 April 2011. Paper presented: ‘It is forbidden to forbid’: Constructions of Frenchness through revolution in three contemporary French picturebooks.

The Emergent Adult :University of Cambridge (UK), 3-5 September 2010. Paper presented: ‘The motif of the hybrid child in Malorie Blackman’s Noughts and Crosses and Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series.’

• AwarDS

Recipient of the 2010 Jacqueline Wilson Award for my MPhil thesis on ‘Training the philosopher-king: Platonic ideology in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter ‘. Jacqueline Wilson’s address.

Recipient of the 2011 UKLA Student Award for the same MPhil Thesis.

• OTHER

On the organising committee for the Child and the Book 2012 conference at Cambridge, on ‘Philosophical Approaches to Children’s Literature’.