#  Research 

 



**Publications:**

"['Grimé comme un Rembrandt': Proust, Ruskin, and Ageing](https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/fs.2025.79.3.4)," *French Studies* 79.3 (July 2025): 402-421.

“[A Gathering in a Forest: The Unsettling Environment and Culinary Ethics of Marie NDiaye’s *The Cheffe*](https://muse.jhu.edu/article/959057),” *SubStance* 166 (Spring 2025): 108-115.

"[The Morning After and the Mourning to Come: Photography, AIDS, and Narrative Form in Hervé Guibert’s *Fou de Vincent*](https://read.dukeupress.edu/romanic-review/article/115/3/595/394729/The-Morning-After-and-the-Mourning-to?guestAccessKey=1a162e82-2f94-4143-a503-65ffae5b6719)," *Romanic Review* 115.3 (December 2024): 595-619.

“[The Skin of the Past: Archival Encounter in Marie NDiaye’s *Un pas de chat sauvage*](https://doi.org/10.4000/11u06),” *Revue critique de fixxion française contemporaine* 28 (June 2024).

**Recent Conference Presentations:**

“Infinite Intimacy: The Cosmic Everyday in the Antarctic Landscape of Marie Darrieussecq’s *White*,” MLA, Toronto, 2026.

“In a Grandson’s Eye: Love, Vision, and Mourning in Proust.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Durham, 2024.

“Nadar in NDiaye: Spectrality and Narrative in the Archive.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Baltimore, 2023.

“Cooking Class: Decadence and Simplicity in NDiaye’s *La Cheffe.*” Words on Food, MLA, San Francisco, 2023.

“Moved to Tears: Mourning and Aestheticism in the *Recherche.*” Proust and the Fin de Siècle, MLA, San Francisco, 2023.

“Writing at the End of Photography: Practice and Perishability in Hervé Guibert’s *L’Image fantôme*.” 20th- & 21st-Century French & Francophone Studies International Colloquium, Pittsburgh, 2022.

“Domestic Distortion: Staging Invisibility and Exploitation in Marie NDiaye’s *Hilda*.” Women and the Invisible Labor of Care, NeMLA, Baltimore, 2022.

“The Patina of Looking: Proust, Ruskin, and Monumentality.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Washington, D.C., 2021.

“The Pine Trees of the Landes in Marie NDiaye’s *La Cheffe.*” Tree, Roundtable, MLA, Toronto, 2021.

“Intimate Catastrophe: Roland Barthes’s Indecent Comparison.” 20th- & 21st-Century French & Francophone Studies International Colloquium, Oklahoma City, 2019.

“Je vous laisse le meilleur de moi-même: Albertine and the Fictions of Indifference.” Albertine at 100, MLA, Chicago, 2019.