DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH AND ITALIAN

Vincent received a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Paris IV – Sorbonne, and a B.A. in History from the University of Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne. He produced a master’s thesis in History of the French Revolution dealing with the topic of the sublime in the 18th century and its use in the French revolutionary rhetoric. He also wrote a master’s thesis in Philosophy in 2009 about the link between phenomenology & Judaism in Levinas’s works. His current research interests include French and German phenomenology (mainly Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Blanchot, Derrida), and the link between phenomenology & literature. Vincent spent the summer in Heidelberg University, Germany, improving his German. He defended his thesis entitled, Les monstres en liberté ou quand la terre fait des bulles (Petit essai de phénoménologie des monstres) in spring 2019.