Agnès Rees

Agnès Rees is a Senior Lecturer in Stylistics at Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès, affiliated with the Patrimoine, Littérature, Histoire (PLH) research team (EA 4601). She teaches French language and stylistics, text/image relationships, and 16th century French literature. Her research focuses on 16th century French and Italian poetry, stylistics, rhetoric, text/image dynamics, ekphrasis, and linguistic representations.

• Education: Former student at École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Agrégée de Lettres modernes (2002), PhD in French Literature from Université de Reims-Champagne-Ardenne (2011)

Her scholarly work examines Franco-Italian poetic exchanges, the evolution of stylistic theories, and the interplay between visual and textual representations during the Renaissance. She has organized academic events on Marot, La Boétie's Discourse of Voluntary Servitude, and voice presence in literary history.

Key themes in her publications include satire in Du Bellay's Regrets, corporeal language metaphors, metatextual epithets in Renaissance poetry, and the poetics of vivid representation. She serves on the Société Française d'Etudes du Seizième siècle and the Gruppo di Studi sul Rinascimento francese.