Ève Morisi

Professor Ève Morisi is a Professor of Literatures in French and Political Humanities at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Hugh’s College. She holds a joint affiliation with the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages and St Hugh’s College. Her research focuses on the intersections of poetics, politics, and ethics in French, Francophone, and comparative literature since the 19th century. Key themes include literary representations of violence and resistance, State power, and socio-political oppression. She has authored works on Albert Camus, Baudelaire, and contemporary Francophone writers, with current projects examining terrorism in French-Algerian literature.

She completed her education at Université Paris VII-Denis Diderot, Columbia University, Princeton University, and the Sorbonne. Her teaching spans undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including courses on modern poetry, Francophone literature, and special subjects like 'Histories of Violence.' She actively promotes diversity in education, encouraging applications from non-selective state schools.

• Research collaborations: Amnesty International, Red Cross, Memorial Site of the Camp des Milles, Centre Albert Camus-Cité du Livre
• Curated exhibitions and founded the 'Contemporains' series at the Maison Française d'Oxford
• Co-organized the Oxford Modern French Research Seminar (2017–2022)

Her awards include the Robert B. Silvers Grant and EURIAS Fellowship. She supervises doctoral research on topics such as Camus’s ethics of violence, multidirectional memory in fiction, and postmemory narratives in Holocaust literature.