Lilia Louati

Lilia Louati is an Assistant Professor at the American University of the Middle East (AMU, Kuwait), affiliated with the Center for Anglophone Studies (CAS). She previously held ATER positions at Toulouse Jean-Jaurès University and the National Higher Institute of Teaching and Education in Toulouse, France. Her academic journey includes a doctorate from Toulouse Jean-Jaurès University completed in 2022.

Her research focuses on Victorian and neo-Victorian literature, with particular emphasis on gender, feminist theory, corporeality, and reader-response. She explores how female protagonists are reimagined in contemporary literature through feminist lenses, analyzing themes such as bodily autonomy, spatial identity, and authorship. Her work intersects literary studies with philosophical and socio-cultural frameworks.

Her publications include a 2022 journal article in Contemporary British Studies and several conference papers presented between 2019 and 2021. These works collectively examine neo-Victorian representations of women, exploring subfields such as spatialization of identity, feminist corporealism, female authorship, and narrative agency. Her scholarship demonstrates a cohesive and evolving engagement with feminist literary theory.

• Literature
• Gender Studies
• Feminist Theory
• Victorian and Neo-Victorian Fiction
• Corporeality
• Urban Space in Literature

Scientific Contributions:

• “Sexsation and the Neo-New Woman in Sarah Waters’s Fingersmith (2002)” (2022)
• “(In)hospitality of the Female Body in Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White (2002)” (2021)
• “Spatialising Character in The Crimson Petal and the White (2002)” (2021)
• “Female Authorship as Theft: Female Prometheus Figures in Fingersmith (2002)” (2019)
• “Neo-Victorian (dis)integrations” (2019)

Lilia Louati has co-organized academic events such as the conference Victorian and Edwardian Interiors and the study day Mirror games, contributing to scholarly discourse in her field. She is actively engaged in research and teaching in English literature and feminist studies.