Teaching
Université Gustave Eiffel (2020 onwards)
English, Year 1
- Grammar: Re-learning basic English grammar, focusing on the simple sentence
- Translation: Translation from English into French and from French into English of literary texts and newspaper extracts
- British history: British society after 1945: geography, economy, sociology, history; introduction to the study of historical documents
- American history: Main topics in contemporary American society and politics: federalism, political ideologies, institutions...
- Literature: Novels -- Introduction to the analysis of literary texts, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire
- Methodology: Getting the bases of university work, from document study to database use, handling of digital tools, and essay and bibliography composition
English, Year 2
- Creative writing: Introduction to writing in English, with a focus on structural analysis of short stories (and of narratives in general), rewriting, stylistic effort, narratology, and grammatical correctness
- Translation: Translation from English into French of literary texts and newspaper extracts
- Literature: Poetry -- British Romanticism and its continuation in Victorian and Edwardian poetry
English, Year 3
- Business English: Learning and practicing English language in a professional context (resume writing, interview practice, etc.)
Applied languages, Year 1
- Translation: Translation from English into French of newspaper extracts
- Oral comprehension and expression: debates, presentations, oral comprehension
- British history: British society after 1945: geography, economy, sociology, history; introduction to the study of historical documents
Applied languages, Year 2
- Translation: Translation from English into French of newspaper extracts
- Business English: English applied to the business world
- Legal English: English applied to law and judicial world
Applied language, Year 3
- American history: American society and politics, from the 1960s to the 2000s
- Translation: Translation from English into French and from French into English of newspaper extracts
Applied languages - International Trade major, Year 3
- North American history, with a focus on trade and economics: Elements of historical and cultural context to trade in the UK, Ireland, the USA, and Canada
International Trade, Master's degree Year 2
- Culture and societies in the anglophone world: Historical, cultural, geopolitical, and economical aspects of the sea in the English-speaking world (2021-2024)
Université de Tours (2018-2020)
English, Year 1
- Writing and translating: Translation from and into English of literary texts and newspaper extracts
- English literature: Introduction to literatures from English speaking countries across the ages, from Beowulf to Richard Siken, focusing on orality and hearing
- Methodology and documentary resources: Introduction to the commentary of texts and images
- Creative writing: Introduction to writing in English, focusing on narrative construction and grammatical correctness
Applied languages, Year 1
- Grammar and translation: Re-learning basic English grammar, and translation into English of newspaper extracts
- Translation: Translation into French of newspaper extracts
French, Classics, Spanish, Year 3
- English for non-English majors: English class for students of other majors, focusing on the monster and monstruosity in English-speaking culture
French and Classics, Master's degree
- English for non-English majors: English class for students of other majors, focusing on the body and materiality in Victorian arts and poetry
- Authors and artists studied: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Edward Burne-Jones, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, John Atkinson Grimshaw, Simeon Solomon, John William Waterhouse, Algernon Charles Swinburne, John Ruskin, Frank Dicksee, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt, Elizabeth Siddal
- Main subjects of the course: Role and reliability of the narrator in dramatic monologues; Medievalism and representation of medieval bodies and spaces; Art and Life; Love and Religion; Sensuality and how to represent it; Poetry and modernty; Women's writing and gender norms; Aestheticism and decadence; Representing homosexuality and "alternative" sexualities; Science and art; Intermediality
Sorbonne Université (2015-2018)
English, Year 1
- American history: Building the United States, from 1607 to 1861: between unification and division
- British history: Function and process of political institutions and the media in Great Britain
- Building a professional future: Workshop dedicated to individual tutoring of first year students and to assistance in setting up an efficient curriculum
- Methodology: Introduction to text commentary in American and British history
English, Year 2
- Translation: Translation into English of literary texts and newspaper extracts