Gabrielle Adjerad

Gabrielle Adjerad serves as a Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), affiliated with the Institute of Cultural and International Studies (IECI) within the Department of Languages and conducting research through the Center for the Cultural History of Contemporary Societies (CHCSC) laboratory.

Her academic credentials include:

• Former student at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS Ulm)
• Agrégée in English (2016)
• Doctorate from the University of Paris Nanterre (2023)

Dr. Adjerad specializes in Contemporary American Minority Literature (20th-21st centuries), with research centered on affect theory, feminisms, mental health representations, and political dimensions in literary works. Her scholarship critically engages with trauma, identity formation, and queerness through analyses of authors like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Myriam Gurba, examining how literature negotiates historical and contemporary social conflicts.

Her publication trajectory reveals consistent focus on minority narratives across African and Chicana literary traditions, employing affect theory to dissect trauma representation, narrative queering, and political agency. Recent works demonstrate evolving engagement with anachronism in historical fiction, mental health discourse in autobiographical writing, and reinterpretations of cultural myths like La Malinche.

Academically active, she contributes to the Society of Anglicists in Higher Education (SAES) and the French Association for American Studies (AFEA), while participating in the Literary Seminar of the Weapons of Criticism (SLAC) for collaborative critical scholarship development.