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Adèle Cassigneul is a permanent academic member of the Center for Anglophone Studies (CAS) at the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, where she conducts research and teaches English for non-specialists. She holds a doctorate in literature from the University of Toulouse 2 (2014), with a thesis on Virginia Woolf and photo-cinematography, supervised by Catherine Lanone and examined by a distinguished international jury.
Her research centers on British literature, particularly English modernism, with a deep specialization in Virginia Woolf. Her work explores the intersections of literature with visual culture, focusing on photography, cinema, montage, and intermediality. She investigates how Woolf’s writing is shaped by photographic practices, familial heritage (such as Julia Margaret Cameron’s influence), and avant-garde film, resulting in a unique literary aesthetic she terms 'photo-cinematographic.'
Her publications span journals such as Études Britanniques Contemporaines, Journal of the Short Story in English, and Littératures. Key themes in her recent articles include gender performativity in Orlando, the haunted narrative in 'A Haunted House', visual poetics in Atonement, and Woolf’s use of scrapbooks and album-making as literary craft. Her work often combines close textual analysis with theoretical frameworks from psychoanalysis, feminism, and media studies.
She has co-edited special issues and contributed book chapters, demonstrating sustained engagement with Woolf studies and modernist visual culture. Her recent publications reveal a consistent focus on how images—both literal and metaphorical—shape narrative, identity, and ethics in modernist literature. She is also active in public intellectual discourse, contributing reviews and essays on photography, memory, and urban space.
- PhD, University of Toulouse 2, 2014
- External English Aggregation, 2008
Scientific Contributions:
- Author of numerous peer-reviewed articles on Virginia Woolf and visual culture
- Editorial work on special issues, including 'Virginia Woolf and Images'
- Contributor to interdisciplinary dialogues on photography, memory, and modernism
She maintains an active scholarly presence through Academia.edu and her personal website, with a strong international readership. There is no indication of part-time status, retirement, or former affiliation; she appears to be a full-time, active researcher and faculty member.
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