Mariane Gallet
Thesis title: 'Art for People's Sake': A Genealogy of Poetics of Resistance to Logics and Architectures of Institutional Racism
PhD supervisors:
Background
Mariane's research focuses on the intersection of antiracist, environmental and social justice activism in modern and contemporary African American Literature and social movement activism. Mariane’s research featured in academic research showcases, and in her contribution to the online exhibition featured in The Guardian, ‘Crossed-Lines’ (2020).
Qualifications
PhD in English Literature, The University of Edinburgh (2022-2025)
Provisional thesis title: 'Art for People's Sake': A Genealogy of Poetics of Resistance to Logics and Architectures of Institutional Racism. Supervised by Dr Keith Hughes and Dr Alexandra Lawrie.
Master in Modern American Literature, The University of Glasgow (2021-2022)
MLitt dissertation examining the legacies of the insitution of slavery in contemporary American institutional policies, and artistic responses across different media. Supervised by Dr Chris Gair.
MAHons in Literature and English Language, The University of Edinburgh (2016-2020)
Master of Arts with Honours, Undergraduate dissertation examining the construction of personal and national identity in the contemporary U.S., in the wake of the nation's past of genocide and enslavement.
Undergraduate teaching
Mariane teaches English Literature, and French Literature and Civilisation to Undergraduate students at the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, The University of Edinburgh, 2023-present.
Academic year 2023-2024
Semester 1
- Literary Studies 1A
- French 1B Literature and Civilisation
Semester 2
- Literary Studies 2B: English Literature and the World, post 1789
- French 1B Literature and Civilisation
Postgraduate teaching
Guest led seminar discussions at postgraduate level in American Literature
Research summary
Mariane's research focuses on the construction of personal and national identities, and citizenship in the United States, examining responses to the U.S.’s treatment of memory and history in modern and contemporary African American Literature to contextualise artistic production in the era of Black Lives Matter. Her PhD project is situated at the intersection of Literary Studies, and Social and Political Sciences.
Project activity
Treasurer, The Scottish Association for the Study of America (2024-)
Assistant editor at peer-reviewed journal FORUM (2024-)
James Tait Black Prize reader, fiction (2024)
Work in Progress Seminar co-organiser, School of LLC, The University of Edinburgh (2023-)
Co-founder of the American Studies reading group at the Andrew Hook Research Centre, The University of Glasgow (2020-2021)
Past project grants
ASA Annette K. Baxter Grant (2023), American Studies Association Baxter Travel Grant
Gordon Studentship (2020-2021), the Andrew Hook Research Centre for American Studies, The University of Glasgow
Organiser
Co-organiser of the Work in Progress Seminar Series (2023-2024), The Unversity of Edinburgh
Papers delivered
Parables of Democracy: Butler and Necropolitics. Thinking Gender 2024: "Dystopian Realities, Feminist Utopias", UCLA. The UCLA Center for the Study of Women, Barbara Streisand Center.
Parables of Democracy: Necropolitics of the American Writer. The Scottish Association for the Study of America Annual Conference. The University of Stirling (2024).
Your Feminism Will Not Protect You: Love, Morbidity, Misogyny in Zora Neale Hurston Short Stories. The American Studies Association Annual Meeting “Solidarity: What Love Looks Like in Public” in Montreal, Canada (2023). Received the American Studies Association Baxter Grant .
'No woman beareth the axe in Babylon': Questioning the Inherent Errantry and (In)Security of Black Feminism in the Harlem of the Great Migration, A study of recovered Zora Neale Hurston short stories. The Irish Association for American Studies Annual Conference 'In/Security', The University of Limerick, Ireland (2023).
'Art for People’s Sake': A Genealogy of Poetics of Resistance to Logics and Architectures of Institutional Racism. Gender.ED Annual Research Showcase, The University of Edinburgh (2022).
Selfhood and Poetics of Racial Trauma: Claudia Rankine and Lyrical Hybridity. The Scottish Association for the Study of America Annual Conference, The University of Glasgow (2021).