PRESENTATION
I am currently Professor at the English department, having previously held senior lecturer positions at the University of Nancy 2, and at the University of Strasbourg. My research interests are in art history, the history of ideas, visual studies, image/text interactions, with an emphasis on the following areas: British Romantic painting and visual media (especially the art of William Blake, J.M.W. Turner, panoramas and travel illustration); the sublime; the representation of ruins in British art; landscape and the environmental humanities.
My research on Romantic art and aesthetics has led to the publication of a book by Manchester University Press, The Challenge of the Sublime: From Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry to British Romantic art (2018). As part of my recent work on art and the current environmental crisis, I have co-edited an issue of Interfaces, “Contemporary ruins” (2023) and an issue of RANAM (Recherches anglaises et nord-américaines), “Landscapes and aesthetic spatialities in the Anthropocene” (2021); I have also co-curated (with Gwendolyne Cressman, Gérard Starck and Olivier Deloignon) two exhibitions at the Maison Interuniversitaire des Sciences de l’Homme – Alsace (MISHA).
I supervise doctoral projects with connections to 18th and 19th-century British art and aesthetics, projects that explore image/text interactions, and would be happy to consider work on the visual arts that engages with the methodologies of the environmental humanities.