Julie Gaillard

Drawing on literature and literary theory, visual and media culture, critical theory as well as psychoanalytic theory, my research focuses on referentiality as an entry point to engage with issues of fiction and (post)truth, affect and representation, as well as identity and community formation. 

My book Réalités pseudonymes (Brill Rodopi, 2020) focuses on proper names in French literature and arts in order to show how media (“new,” “old,” and “mixed”) articulate reality, as societies shift from analog to digital modes of mediation. I analyze a variety of works by authors and artists who bring to the fore proper names and introduce disturbances in their referential mechanisms, in order to show how "reality" is constituted and how it can be faked, transformed or suspended.

I am currently working on my second book, provisionally titled 'Who, We?': Pronominal Politics, Citizenship, and the Rights of the Other in Hashtag Era France, which engages with issues of identity and community formation in contemporary culture, philosophy, and literature, through the lens of a pronominal politics.