Research

Here is an overview of research projects I am or have been involved in

Poésie sous le feu - French Poetry of the First World War

This was my Masters and Doctoral project. It combined History, Literature, Anthropology and the Digital Humanities to uncover a corpus of nearly 700 French poets of the First World War. I honed an innovative approach called “historical anthropoetics” to identify five functions accomplished by French poetry in 1914-1918.

Selected publications from this project include:

Funding, awards and distinctions for this project included:

  • Contrat doctoral (four years of ministerial funding, 2017-2021)

  • Prix d’Études des Mondes Contemporains (Association Amis de la Contemporaine - 2020)

  • Bourse Gerda Henkel (Historial de la Grande Guerre)

  • Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture for an Emerging Scholar (International Society for First World War Studies)

Thinking Race, Fighting Racism: African American Intellectual, Political, and Social Antiracist Mobilizations in the United States and Abroad (late 18th-early 21st century) – TACTICS

I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Université de Lille, working on the ANR-TACTICS project, coordinated by Nicolas Martin-Breteau. My specific roles include establishing a corpus of W. E. B. Du Bois’s editorials in The Crisis and using computational analysis (textometry and network analysis) to map the antiracist strategies deployed. The project’s outputs will be updated here soon.

Poésie Grande Guerre - Prosopographie Relationnelle

As part of my doctoral research, I contributed to the development of Poésie Grande Guerre, an online relational database of French poets having written during or about the First World War. My main contributions to the project were helping create the data model and including my corpus of “poets under fire” in the database.

Publications stemming from this project include:

Projects and organisations I have worked with as a consultant