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As a UCL Mellon Fellow Jérôme was researching Identities and Culture in Europe with a focus on Word and Image, the role played by visual and textual representations in the construction of identity.

• 2002: PhD in French Literature and Philosophy, Kings College - Cambridge University
  Thesis: Expression as Becoming: A Poetics of the Virtual in the works of Christian Prigent, Dominique Fourcade, Olivier Cadiot, and Hubert Lucot [ abstract ]. Supervisor: Jean Khalfa, Trinity College - Cambridge University

• 1995: MA in Law, Sorbonne - University of Paris
• 1992: BA in Political Philosophy, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris:

Research interests

Contemporary French philosophy, literature and cinema.

During his Fellowship Jérôme worked on:
- two books provisionally entitled: A Poetics of the Virtual: New Approaches to Contemporary French Literature; and The Cinema of Jean Eustache.
- the interactions existing between the textual and the visual in modern and contemporary French culture, with particular emphasis on the construction of identities. This work related directly to Jerome's role as a convenor of the UCL Mellon Research Seminar, with the aim of developing it into the matter for a book.

Jérôme also organised regular poetry readings by contemporary French authors.

Papers:

• 5-6 September 2003, University College Dublin, International Colloquim ­ 'Sens et présence du sujet poétique', title : "The rhizome and the cut-up: constructivist subjects in the poetry of Anne Portugal and Vannina Maestri".
• 27 - 29 June 2003: St. Andrews University, International Conference 'Violence, Culture, and Identity', title: "Resisting social and political repression: violence in contemporary French poetry".
• June 2003: University of Barcelona, IIè Congrès International du Groupe de Recherches sur les Ecritures Subversives (GRES) - Stratégies de l'Illisible, title: "Illisibilités contemporaines : Futur, ancien, fugitif d'Olivier Cadiot, ou le Sujet illisible".
• 18 April 2002: Institut Français, London, Studies in French Cinema Annual Conference, title: "Political French Cinema of the 1970s : The Case of Jean Eustache".
• 22-24 March 2002: 'Le Printemps des Poètes' - Centre Beaubourg/Georges Pompidou, Paris, introduction and convening of the round table "Poésie-monde: ouvertures et traductions"
• 7 February 2002: University of London, Institute of English Studies Gender and Sexuality Study Group, title: "Hermaphrodite Becomings: Gender Status in Gilles Deleuze's Ontology".

Articles and Book-Chapters:

• "La Poésie sans sujet", in M.-C. Ropars and P. Sorlin (eds.), "L'Art sans sujet", Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2004.
• ""Poésie de Dominique Fourcade", in D. Viart (ed.), Ecritures contemporaines: Effractions de la poésie, Editions Minard, May 2003
• .The Self as dispossession: Deleuzian becomings and Bataillian excess", in J. Horn and L. Russell-Watts (eds.), Possessions/Dispossessions in Modern French Identities, Peter Lang Publishers, December 2002.
• "La Vie dans les trous: importance de Christian Prigent", Il Particolare: Art, Littérature, Théorie Critique n°4-5, June 2001, pp. 169-183."Pensée pensante: poésie", Java n°21-22, April 2001, pp. 24-37.
• "Cinematic Bodies: The Blind Spot in Contemporary French Theory on Corporeal Cinema", Studies in French Cinema n°1, April 2001, pp. 47-53.
• "Le Virtuel Deleuzien: Cogito pour un moi dissous", BARCA: Poésie, Politique, Psychanalyse n°15, November 2000, pp. 57-80.

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