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Lillian Fontaine is a DPhil candidate in French and Francophone Studies at the University of Oxford, affiliated with the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages. She holds academic roles including Stipendiary Lecturer in French at Somerville College and Graduate Development Scholar at St Anne's College. Her research investigates the 'spectrality of intertextuality' in contemporary Algerian Francophone literature, focusing on postcolonial trauma and literary resistance to state narratives. She teaches French literature, translation, and theory at both undergraduate and graduate levels across Oxford colleges.
Education: B.A./Languages (University of Sydney, French & Italian), Honours Degree (awarded University Medal for a thesis on Camus and Daoud), and studies at Sciences Po, Paris.
Research interests span 20th-21st century Francophone thought, postcolonial theory, deconstructionism, memory studies, and islamogauchisme. Her work challenges rigid historical narratives through analyses of spectral imagery and intertextual rewriting in North African literature.
She has published in Australian Journal of French Studies (forthcoming) and Modern and Contemporary France, with academic prizes including the Prix Jeune Chercheur (2023) and University of Sydney Medal (2017). Her teaching extends to admissions work, mentoring Year 12 students via Oxford High School's 'Inspires' program, and delivering lectures on Camus and postcolonial Algeria.
