Bastien Goursaud

Bastien Goursaud serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of English within the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Cultures at Université Paris Nanterre, where he is affiliated with the CERCLL Research Center. His academic profile centers on contemporary literary scholarship with strong interdisciplinary connections.

Research interests encompass contemporary Anglophone poetry, performance poetry (including spoken word and Dub poetry), queer poetics, diasporic literatures, and creative translation practices. His work examines hybrid textual forms, identity construction in poetry, and the relationship between literary works and popular culture.

Recent publications reveal consistent focus on 21st-century British poets like Alice Oswald, Kate Tempest, and Andrew McMillan, with particular attention to gender, vulnerability, and ecological consciousness. The research demonstrates strong engagement with performance theory and translation studies across multiple scholarly venues.

As an active academic organizer, he co-hosted the 2023 international conference 'Contemporary British Poetry and the Long 1980s' with Sorbonne University and co-edited the 2019 special issue 'Aesthetics of Absence' for Sillages Critiques.

His teaching responsibilities include Translation and English Literature courses, where he likely integrates his research expertise on contemporary poetic forms and their cultural contexts.