Dr Alice Roullière is a departmental lecturer in French at Trinity College. She lectures for the French sub-Faculty and teaches early modern French literature from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century (Paper X and VII), and first-year literature papers. 

Her research focuses on sixteenth-century French and Neo-Latin poetry (Pierre de Ronsard, Joachim Du Bellay, Geoffroy Tory) with a special interest in epic, national identity, religious conflicts and representations of death.

Her PhD dissertation on Ronsard and epic ghosts was completed at the University of Cambridge, Trinity Hall. She is a normalienne from the École Normale Supérieure (Ulm) and an ‘Agrégée de Lettres Classiques’. Her new research project focuses on the notion of imagined colonialism in relation to Peru in French early modern literature.