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Célia Abele is an Assistant Professor of French at Boston College's Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. Her work bridges literature, history, and science across 18th- to 20th-century Europe, with a focus on material culture and environmental humanities.
Education:
- B.A. in English Literature and Philosophy, Trinity College, Dublin
- M.A. in Comparative Literature, Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)
- Ph.D. in French and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Research Interests:
- Literature-science intersections
- Novelistic form in Proust and German Modernism
- Material culture studies
- Environmental humanities
Article Themes: Her publications analyze Rousseau's documentary practices, Proust's ecological symbolism, and Diderot's Encyclopédie's social epistemologies, revealing literature's engagement with scientific and material worlds.
Awards:
- Mellon International Humanities Travel Grant
- Princeton UCRHSS funding
- ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Grants & Roles: Served as French Studies book review editor for the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Completed a Mellon-funded book manuscript titled *From Feuilles to Fossils: Documents of Self and World*, exploring Rousseau, Lichtenberg, Zola, Benjamin, and Sebald's research practices.
