My DPhil research appeals to the philosophy of Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Catherine Malabou to uncover the breaking down of the distinction between the self and world in Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu. Whilst critics have tended to emphasise the separation of the self from the world in Proust's novel, I hope to show that these thinkers allow us to view the so-called Proustian self in material, external, and relational terms.

I previously completed my undergraduate degree in French literature and language (2013-2017) and my M.St. in French literature, philosophy, and critical theory (2017-2018) at Magdalen College, Oxford. My wider interests lie in twentieth-century French thought and literature. I have taught the first-year undergraduate French Thought course, alongside Marcel Proust seminars for the Final Honours Special Subject option.

Publications: 

Ferris, Louise, ‘Proust et Les Amateurs by Teppei Asama (Review)’, The Modern Language Review, 118.2 (2023), 247–48.

The Bodleian Library publication Thinking 3D (ed. Daryl Green & Laura Moretti, 2019) includes my translation of an article from French-English, and I also translated further posts that can be found on the project’s corresponding website.