Raphaëlle Guidée

Raphaëlle Guidée is a lecturer in comparative literature at the University of Poitiers and a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). Her research focuses on the intersection between literature and the social sciences, the political dimension of contemporary writing, and the environmental humanities. Her project at Institut Universitaire de France is entitled “Losing the World: Climate Change, Historical Transitions and New Narratives” (2020–2025). She has published an essay on the memory of disasters (Mémoires de l’oubli, 2017) and co-edited several volumes on contemporary literature (Hantologies, 2009; Patrick Modiano, 2012; W. G. Sebald, 2013; Utopie et catastrophe, 2015; Dire les inégalités, 2016; and L’Apocalypse, une imagination politique, 2018). Her narrative investigation into the story of Detroit’s bankruptcy will be published in 2024 by Flammarion.