Poetry scholar | Postdoctoral researcher
I am a poetry scholar and postdoctoral researcher working in the UK and France.
My research focuses on “historical anthropoetics”: using History, Literary Analysis, Anthropology and the Digital Humanities to explore what poetry does in times of crisis, especially armed conflict. My main area of expertise is French poetry of the First World War, though I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Université de Lille, working on the ANR-TACTICS and using computational methods to map out anti-racist strategies in the writing of W. E. B. Du Bois.
I am joint Membership Secretary and Early Career Representative of the International Society for First World War Studies and serve as Web Officer of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France. I also co-founded the French Early-Career network Une Plus Grande Guerre.
I serve on the editorial board of First World War Studies.
I am also interested in poetic form, rhythm, and the conditions that support sustained creative and intellectual work.
Interdisciplinary and Trasnational Researcher
I was born in Brazil, and received my Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences from the Universidade de São Paulo. I later moved to France, where I was awarded a Research Masters in History from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and a PhD in French Language and Literature from the Université Paris Nanterre. This transnational and interdisciplinary journey has greatly informed my research practices.
Poésie sous le feu
My first monograph was published by Honoré Champion in January 2026. It expands on my doctoral thesis and on my work with Poésie Grande Guerre, examining a corpus of 684 French poets of the First World War and identifying five functions poetry accomplished in 1914-1918: s’inventer, lier, ancrer, transmettre, connaître.
RHYTHM
I have developed a framework to help other PhD students, especially those from the Global South or with caring responsibilities, to tackle the PhD creatively and sustainably.
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