Julien Neel

Julien Néel received a double BA in English and French literatures and his MA in comparative literature from Sorbonne Université, and an MA in arts, languages, and literatures from L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). His first two master’s theses dealt with the relationship between the female body, gazes, and images in the 1950s and1960s, in works by Marguerite Duras, Sylvia Plath, Annie Ernaux, and Simone de Beauvoir. His last master’s thesis analyzed body images in Charlotte Delbo’s trilogy Auschwitz and After. At Yale, Julien hopes to continue working on the vulnerable body, especially in the wake of environmental and industrial disasters, visual studies, feminism, and gender studies in twentieth- and twenty-first-century French literature. As a fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center in Environmental Humanities, he intends to include the study of other forms of life, ethics of care, and ecocriticism in his research.