Département de langue et littérature anglaises

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Research Interest / Recherches

My research focuses on medieval emotion and, on a more general level, on affections of a physiological and/or psychological kind in various discourses of the period, within an outlook on historical conceptualizations of the body and the affect. If a history of medieval emotion is possible, literature, with its specific formulaic modalities of expression and its lexical maps waiting to be fleshed out, has an important word to say for it. In that sense, contemporary theories in phenomenology, embodied cognition and neuro-sciences offer useful methodological tools and perspectives of thought, since they draw attention to the capital relationship between bodies, affect and narratives.
I have presented various aspects of my research at conferences at the Universities of Geneva, Lausanne, Bern, and at the Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences, Geneva (SCAS).

Publications

“Narrating Sloth in Medieval Literature: the Knowledge of Feelings”. SPELL 22(2009). Denis Renevey and Indira Ghose, eds., forthcoming.