DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH AND ITALIAN

Céline is a Phd student in the program in French and Francophone studies. After a preparatory class in France, she was admitted to the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and completed her master’s degree in film studies at Paris Diderot (Paris VII). She decided on a Phd in French after spending a year at Northwestern as a French Lecturer in 2016.

She wrote her first Master’s Thesis on the representation of the body in Jean Epstein’s work. Her second MA thesis was about the ambiguous relationship between Jean Epstein and the European Avant-gardes working on the archives in the Cinemathèque Française. She is interested in early cinema and photography with a focus on the way the image may embody both collective and individual memory through the representation of bodies.