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French Literature and Critical Theory

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Larissa Aparecida Ramos
Universidade Sagrado Coração
2
Beth Azar
Behavioral Tech Research, Inc.
3
Clément Lemaître
Université de Lille
4
Delphine Jayot
Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes
5
Ruth Daly
Twitter (United States)
6
Emilija Talijan
University of Brighton
7
Gökçe Mine OLGUN
Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University
8
Tatiana G. Magaril-Il’iaeva
Russian Academy of Sciences
9
Omotayo Jemiluyi
University of Missouri
10
Brett Defries
St. Olaf College

Rising Stars Papers

1
“Original sufferhead”: The boy-child and masculine sufferings in Ahmadou Kourouma’s <i>Allah n’est pas obligé</i> and <i>Les Soleils des Indépendances</i>
French Cultural Studies|2024
5 cit.
2
<i>Àjẹkùnrin</i> : witchcraft, gender politics, and gender nonconformity in Yoruba spirituality
Journal for Cultural Research|2025
5 cit.
3
Resisting Neocolonial Chains: African Emancipation in Brymo’s “Illusions”
Muziki|2024
4 cit.
4
‘Pop the Balloon or Find Love’: A New Black Popular Culture? Exploring its Potential Social Influence and Implications for the Global Image of Nigerians
International Journal of Asian and African Studies|2025
3 cit.
5
The Hero’s Journey in Dostoevsky’s Early Works and Crime and Punishment
Dostoevsky and World Culture Philological journal|2024
2 cit.
6
The Influence of Tiken Jah Fakoly’s Reggae Music in Post-independence Côte d’Ivoire
African studies quarterly.|2024
2 cit.
7
Being African, staying African: constructing and preserving African masculinities among Nigerian Men in the United States
National Identities|2025
2 cit.
8
Flaubert in Dostoevsky’s Work: The Role and Image of Madame Bovary in the Novel The Idiot
Studia Litterarum|2024
1 cit.
9
From Naija to the States: Stereotypes and Resistance of the Nigerian Man in America
Howard Journal of Communications|2025
1 cit.
10
Attention and ambience in <i>The Zone of Interest</i>
Film-Philosophy|2025
1 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Valerie Mendelson
New School
2
Mark Cohen
University of South Florida
3
Inge van de Ven
Tilburg University
4
Lilian Hack
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
5
Samuel Estier
Unknown
6
Jérémy Pedrazzi
Unknown
7
Carolyn Shread
Mount Holyoke College
8
Amanda Villavieja
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
9
Dilara PINARBAŞI
Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University
10
Bertrand Guest
Université Bordeaux Montaigne

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
On Becoming in Translation: Articulating Feminisms in the Translation of Marie Vieux-Chauvet's Les Rapaces
Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst)|2023
5 cit.
2
Çeviri eşikleri: Yan metinsel unsurlarda çeviri süreçleri ve çevirmenin sesi
RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi :/RumeliDe Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi|2022
5 cit.
3
It's Not a Game! Rules of Notice and Hermeneutics of Suspicion in Contemporary FMV Games
Games and Culture|2023
5 cit.
4
‘TL;DR’ (Too Long; Didn’t Read)? Cognitive Patience as a Mode of Reading: Exploring Concentration and Perseverance
Scientific Study of Literature|2023
5 cit.
5
Attentional modulation in literary reading: A theoretical‐empirical framework
Orbis Litterarum|2023
5 cit.
6
‘Gonna get you, baby!’ A qualitative-empirical study of attentional modulation in reading a short story
Language and Literature International Journal of Stylistics|2023
3 cit.
7
Making the leap: embracing the more-than-human in feminist and queer translation
Feminist Translation Studies|2025
2 cit.
8
Does Communist Art Exist?
Critical Inquiry|2022
1 cit.
9
Chasing the Mole. Participation and Creativity around the Dutch TV Show <i>Wie is de Mol</i>?
Quarterly Review of Film and Video|2022
1 cit.
10
Pleasure Unthought in Translation
MLN|2022
0 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Robin van den Akker
Erasmus University Rotterdam
2
Marjorie Perloff
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
3
Warren Motte
University of Colorado System
4
Elizabeth Grosz
Duke University
5
Jean‐Pierre Richard
École Centrale de Lille
6
Michael Richardson
Western Sydney University
7
Patrick ffrench
King's College London
8
Ashley Thompson
Loma Linda University
9
Laurent Alonso
Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique
10
Kai Mikkonen
University of Helsinki

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Time-delay systems: an overview of some recent advances and open problems
Automatica|2003
3.3k cit.
2
Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism
Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature|1995
1.8k cit.
3
Robust sampled-data stabilization of linear systems: an input delay approach
Automatica|2004
1.2k cit.
4
Notes on metamodernism
Journal of AESTHETICS & CULTURE|2010
499 cit.
5
The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage
Comparative Literature|1982
396 cit.
6
The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rupture
Performing Arts Journal|1987
339 cit.
7
Chaos, Territory, Art. Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth
IDEA JOURNAL|2019
324 cit.
8
Stability of some linear systems with delays
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control|1999
313 cit.
9
Wide-angle memories of close-up scenes.
Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition|1989
232 cit.
10
The Work of Mourning
Yale French Studies|2004
211 cit.

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