Manon Houtart

Manon Houtart is a researcher affiliated with the Namur Institute of Language, Text and Transmediality at the University of Namur. Her work focuses on surrealism, radio studies, and migration literature, bridging literary analysis with media history and cultural theory.

• PhD thesis: Surrealism and Radio: A Sociohistorical and Audiopoetic Study (1924-1969)
• Current projects: Voices of Surrealism (2022-2024) and Surrealism and Radio Archives (2020-2022)

Research areas include:

• Surrealist movement and its intersections with radio
• Migration narratives in poetry
• Transmedial literature and avant-garde practices
• Cultural history of 20th-century artistic networks

Recent publications examine surrealism's auditory dimensions, migration literature, and interdisciplinary methodologies. She actively participates in academic symposiums like Fonctions du surréalisme and Cerveaux poétiques, and contributes to editorial projects such as CoSMo: Comparative Studies in Modernism. Houtart collaborates with institutions including the Observatoire des littératures sauvages and works on archival preservation (e.g., Archives internationales du surréalisme).