This graduate student's research focuses on contemporary French far-right fiction and the cultural imaginaries it produces. Their work examines the role of literature in the metapolitical project of the French far right, exploring how fiction helps circulate ideological narratives and shape collective understandings of nation, identity, and belonging. They are particularly interested in literary representations of demographic decline, racial dispossession, and civilizational crisis, specifically analyzing how narratives aligned with Grand Remplacement (Great Replacement) rhetoric construct the perceived disappearance of whiteness as an existential threat to France.
More broadly, their research explores the construction and representation of whiteness in contemporary French literature and culture. Drawing on critical theory, critical whiteness studies, and cultural studies, they investigate how literary and cinematic texts produce, sustain, or contest racialized conceptions of identity and belonging. Their work is particularly interested in how representations of whiteness shape narratives of national identity and belonging, and in the ways cultural texts may inadvertently reproduce racialized imaginaries that echo contemporary far-right discourses.
