Sylvie Maurel

Sylvie Maurel is a Lecturer at the Centre for Anglophone Studies (CAS), Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J), where she has been teaching and conducting research since 1995. Her academic focus lies in 20th and 21st century British literature, with particular emphasis on memory, rewriting, historiography, and ethical dimensions in narrative.

• Doctorate, Paris III (1995)
• Aggregation, ENS Fontenay-Saint-Cloud (1987)

Her research explores how literature engages with historical trauma, silenced voices, and ethical responsibility. She specializes in authors such as Jean Rhys, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, and A.S. Byatt, analyzing themes of precarity, identity, and narrative form.

Recent publications span topics from grief in Never Let Me Go to literary testimony in Atonement, and the representation of marginality in Rhys’s work. Her scholarship emphasizes narrative innovation, ethical representation, and the interplay between personal and collective memory.

She is co-coordinator of the research program 'Individual and collective memories' within Axis 3 of CAS and serves on the editorial board of the journal Caliban.

She has no listed scientific awards or formal advisees, but remains an active contributor to literary scholarship through publications and conference communications.

Her work is associated with a vibrant research center engaged in interdisciplinary Anglophone studies, and she continues to publish on contemporary ethical and narrative concerns in fiction.