A researcher in literature and arts, with a degree in the semiology of text and image, trained at the Centre d'étude de l'écriture et de l'image, an interdisciplinary research center created at Jussieu University in 1982 by Anne-Marie Christin, which became a research association in 2015, I wanted, from the beginning of my training, to question "the idea of literature" from the perspective of writing, its material forms, and the technological supports that configure it.
Field of research
AftergraduatingfromtheENS Fontenay St Cloud, holding an agrégation in literature, and graduatingfromtheESSEC business school, I chose to do my DEA on hypertextual computer writing at Paris 8 (1996), and then to devote my thesis to theevolution of plural and combinatory narrative forms at theUniversity of Paris Diderot, underthe direction of Anne-Marie Christin (2004).
Since 2008, as a CNRSresearcherassigned to theUMRTHALIM, I have beenaccompanying collective projects in digital humanities (database design and digital editions), devoted to contemporary archives combiningtext and image, allowingeither a genetic or statistical exploration of digitizedcorpora. Thefirstdatabase I helpedcreatewascalledLIVRESC, and wasdevoted to creativebooks.
The second one is dedicated to theOulipo Archives; it is accessible onlinesince 2018. Thethird is the digital edition of Claude Simon's textentitled Femmes, whichshould be followed by theedition of Tramway, theauthor'slastnovel. Anotherrecentachievement is the collective design of the digital journal écriture et image, whoselaunch issue in November 2020 wasdevoted to thethought of thescreen. In short, I produce digital objectscollectively and thisallows me to reflect on theforms and limits of our conception of writing and image.
"La fabrique de Femmes, un cas d''illustration transgressive", in Blessures du livre, ss dir. Andrea Oberhuber et Sofiane Laghouati, in Textimage, n°11, 2019.
En collab. avec Melina Balcazar-Rideau, "Un manuscrit simonien: des scriptions" in Les Vies de l'Archive, ss dir. M. Calle-Gruber et al. Editions univ. de Dijon, 2014.
Le projet / la base de données Archives de l’Oulipo
En collab. avec Camille Bloomfield, "Machines littéraires, machines numériques, L'Oulipo et l'informatique" in Oulipo mode d'emploi, ss dir. Alain Schaffner, Christelle Reggiani, 2015.
"Oulipo et les graphes. Une histoire en branches". Catalogue de l'Exposition BNF in Oulipo, La littérature en jeu(x) Coédition BnF / Gallimard, Nov. 2014. En collab. avec Melina Balcazar-Rideau, "Un manuscrit simonien: des scriptions" in Les Vies de l'Archive, ss dir. M. Calle-Gruber et al. Editions univ. de Dijon, 2014.
La littérature et l’évolution des supports d’écrit
« Distances digitales : combinatoire et oubli dans Lust de M.-K. Arnold (1993). », The digital archive in Image and narrative, Leuven, ss. dir. Jan Baetens, avril 2007.
« Le livre : réflexions/ réfractions dans Glas (Derrida, 1974) et « Rhizome » (Deleuze/ Guattari, 1976) », in Le livre et ses espaces, dir. A. Milon et M. Perelman, PU Paris X Nanterre, 2007, Paris.
« Un Conte à votre façon (1967) de Queneau : délinquance ou insignifiance ? », RHLF, Paris, PUF.