Pascal AQUIEN

Pascal AQUIEN is a university professor affiliated with the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne, specializing in literary studies and textual criticism. His research focuses on British literature, particularly 19th- and 20th-century poetry and novels.

• Key publications: Oscar Wilde. Words and Dreams (2006), The Picture of Dorian Gray. For a Poetics of the Novel (2004), and WH Auden: From Lost Eden to the Garden of Words (1996)
• Teaching includes works by Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, RL Stevenson, and poets like Ted Hughes
• Conference presentations: Swinburne's poetics, Tourneur's solubility in poetry, and Wilde's theater

His research bridges poetry analysis and novel studies, emphasizing aestheticism, intertextuality, and moral/philosophical dimensions in literature. Articles reveal expertise in Victorian literature, modernist poetry, and cultural history.

Teaching activities span Licenses (undergraduate), Master's programs, and Aggregation (French postgraduate qualification) in literature, covering foundational texts like Alice in Wonderland, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Elizabeth Bishop's Complete Poems.