My research explores how the contemporary French novel represents lives lived in the shadow of neoliberalism.

I am interested in how recent novels by writers such as Maylis de Kerangal, Joy Sorman and Olivia Rosenthal bring into focus those who have been pushed to society’s edges in the socio-economic situation that has come to dominate France since the turn of the 21st Century.

I read these literary texts alongside the work of recent thinkers in aesthetics like Jacques Rancière and Georges Didi-Huberman, as well as researchers in the social sciences including Michel Foucault, Marc Augé and Christophe Guilluy, to explore how literature represents and enables its readers to think about political invisibility.