Alicia Viaud

Alicia Viaud is an Adjunct Professor at the Department of French-language Literature, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Montréal. She is also an associated researcher at the 'Formes et Idées de la Renaissance aux Lumières' laboratory (FIRL EA 174) at Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 and a member of the Research Group in the History of Sociabilities. Her work focuses on Renaissance literature, historiography, and textual representations of fortune, chance, and time in 16th-century writings.

Education: Agrégée de lettres modernes (Modern Literature Diploma) and Doctorate in French Literature and Civilization from Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3.

Research interests include forms of historical writing (memoirs, national histories, cosmographies), textual analyses of fortune and contingency, and Montaigne’s influence on Renaissance thought. Her notable publication À hauteur humaine. La fortune dans l’écriture de l’histoire (1560-1600) (2021) examines Fortune’s role in shaping historical narratives.

Awards: Recipient of the 2019 Prix de la Chancellerie des universités de Paris for her doctoral thesis.

Teaching includes courses on Renaissance literature, historical writing, and French literature programs. She supervises research in early modern literary and historical studies.

Grants: Leading projects funded by FRQSC (2023–2027) and SSHRC (2023–2025) on memory narratives of the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre and early modern women’s memorial writing.

Affiliations: President of Cornucopia, member of the editorial board of Bulletin de la Société des Amis de Montaigne, and active in scholarly networks like ALEA (representations of chance).