DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH AND ITALIAN

Caitlyn Doyle completed her Ph.D. in Comparative Literary Studies and French, and defended her dissertation entitled, “The Aesthetic Politics of an Exhausted World: Aberrant Temporalities in Marcel Proust, Samuel Beckett and Chantal Akerman” in spring 2017. She is currently a lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research interests include Indigenous film, 20th-century literature, and critical theory. Her work explores the intersection of aesthetics and politics. She is currently working on two book projects, Dream-Image: Counter-Dreaming in Indigenous Cinema and The Fugitive’s Politics. Dream-Image considers the political stakes of contemporary Indigenous films that contest the misrepresentations of the colonial imaginary, not in an expository or critical register, but in the register of the dream. The Fugitive’s Politics is organized around literary and cinematic reincarnations of Proust’s Albertine Simonet and uncovers the aesthetic politics at stake in seemingly apolitical modernist works that portray a retreat from recognizable forms of life. Her published work has appeared in journals such as Film Criticism and Symplokē.