MIT

Faculty Member, Foreign Languages and Literatures

Assistant Professor

School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

About

I am an Assistant Professor of French Studies at MIT (PhD, political science, Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)

I was a member in the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) in 2007-2008. I am currently a Newton Fellow in sociology at Cambridge University.

Prior to joining MIT, I taught constitutional law at Paris XII Val de Marne University and political science as well as gender and queer studies at Sciences Po Paris, where I was also an academic advisor for international students.

I serve as a member of the scientific board of Sciences Po’s gender studies program (PRESAGE) and also on the editorial board of the academic journal Genre, sexualité et société.

My main research focuses are gender, sexuality and the production of citizenship in Twentieth century France as well as family policies and the institutions of the Fifth republic.

My forthcoming book Penser l’adoption (Presses universitaires de France, January 2012) puts into question the institutional process for authorizing an adoption. It argues that institutions draw their authority from a heterosexual imaginary of the Nation, which is performed by means of a meticulous discursive control of the family.

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