Pierre Forfert

Pierre Forfert is a Ph.D. student in the Department of French. His current research centers on spa culture and balneotherapy in nineteenth-century French literature. He is interested in exploring the literary significance of spa towns through the prism of space and cultural studies as well as medical humanities. Prior to joining Yale, Pierre received a B.A. (2017) and an M.A. (2019) in English literature from Sorbonne Université. He also holds a master’s degree in Communications (2022) from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication (CELSA).