Daphne Villard

Daphne Villard is a researcher affiliated with the Patrimoine, Littérature, Histoire (PLH) team at the University of Toulouse - Jean Jaures. She specializes in French and Greek modern literature, focusing on themes of mourning, breakups, and narrative techniques through the lens of Vassilis Alexakis's works.

• Affiliation: PLH Research Team
• Field: French Language and Literature

Her research examines:

• Intersections of grief and narrative structure
• Role of foreign words in literary digression
• Intercultural dialogue in postmodern novels
• Temporal suspense mechanisms in Greek-French literature

Recent publications focus on Alexakis's literary strategies, including:

• 2021: Spatial and temporal transitions in diasporic literature
• 2020: Lexical hybridity as narrative device
• 2017: Death as central thematic motif