Research publications

This page provides a complete list of my research publications in modern French literature and life writing, followed by book reviews and selected conference papers. Where available, links lead to a DOI, publisher’s page, open-access text or recording.

Monograph

Diaries Real and Fictional in Twentieth-Century French Writing (Oxford University Press, 2018). Publisher page

Edited special issue

Diaristic Writing and the Idea of Literature in French and Francophone Writing, 1940–2020, ed. by Sam Ferguson and Ana Delia Rogobete, special issue of Nottingham French Studies, 61.2 (2022). Publisher page

Articles and book chapters

‘Le Journal intime’, forthcoming in Dictionnaire Maurice Blanchot, ed. by Michael Holland and Hannes Opelz (Classiques Garnier). Project website

‘Roland Barthes, autofictionneur contemporain, ou Barthes qui perd l’habitude’, Revue Roland Barthes, 8 (2026). Read online

‘Introduction: Diaries and the Question of Literature’, with Ana Delia Rogobete, Nottingham French Studies, 61.2 (2022), 95–103. DOI

‘Maurice Blanchot: “Theorist” of the Diary?’, Nottingham French Studies, 61.2 (2022), 104–18. DOI

‘Autofiction and the Diary: The Radicalization of Autofiction in Works by Hervé Guibert and Christine Angot’, in Alexandra Effe and Hannie Lawlor (eds), The Autofictional: Approaches, Affordances, Forms (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), 267–85. DOI

‘Autofiction: Writing Lives’, in Adam Watt (ed.), The Cambridge History of the Novel in French (Cambridge University Press, 2021), 671–87. DOI

‘La figure de l’auteur comme “image véritable” dans l’œuvre d’André Gide’, Bulletin des Amis d’André Gide, 199–200 (2018), 33–47. JSTOR

‘Why Does Life Writing Talk about Science?: Foucault, Rousseau, and the Early Journal Intime’, Biography, 40.2 (2017), 307–22. DOI

‘Queneau, Raymond (1903–1976)’, in Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism (Routledge, 2017). DOI

‘Diary-Writing and the Return of Gide in Barthes’s “Vita Nova”’, Textual Practice, 30.2 (2016), 241–66. DOI

‘Forgetting Gide: A Study of Barthes’s “Ursuppe”’, Barthes Studies, 1 (2015), 17–34. Read online

‘André Gide’s Paludes: A Diary Novel?’, French Studies, 68.1 (2014), 34–47. DOI

‘Metalepsis and the auteur supposé in Raymond Queneau’s Œuvres complètes de Sally Mara’, French Studies, 66.2 (2012), 178–92. DOI

Book reviews

Review of Jean-Michel Wittmann (ed.), Gide ou l’identité en question, French Studies, 73.1 (2019), 136–37. DOI

Review of Roland Barthes, ‘Masculine, Feminine, Neuter’ and Other Writings on Literature: Essays and Interviews, Volume 3, trans. by Chris Turner, and ‘Simply a Particular Contemporary’: Interviews, 1970–79: Essays and Interviews, Volume 5, trans. by Chris Turner, Barthes Studies, 3 (2017), 141–45. Read online

Review of Philippe Lejeune, Aux origines du journal personnel: France, 1750–1815, Biography, 39.4 (2016), 825–28. DOI

Review of Andy Stafford, Roland Barthes, The Times Literary Supplement, 26 February 2016, 30.

Review of Roland Barthes, Album: inédits, correspondances et varia, ed. by Éric Marty, French Studies, 70.1 (2016), 126–27.

Review of Tiphaine Samoyault, Roland Barthes, French Studies, 69.4 (2015), 554–55. DOI

Review of Martine Sagaert and Peter Schnyder (eds), Actualités d’André Gide, French Studies, 67.3 (2013), 426.

Review of Françoise Simonet-Tenant, Journal personnel et correspondance (1785–1939) ou les affinités électives, French Studies, 64.4 (2010), 519–20. DOI

Selected conference papers

‘Private Writing, Political Action: Written AIDS Testimony in France, 1986–1993’, international conference ‘ACT UP: Thirty Years Fighting AIDS’, University of York, 1 June 2017. Read paper

‘Les discours scientifiques dans l’écriture de soi’, international conference ‘L’influence souterraine de la science sur la littérature et la philosophie (et réciproquement)’, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, 23–24 May 2014. Audio recording

‘Les vies des auteurs supposés: de la biographie au journal intime’, Paris-Sorbonne seminar ‘États du biographique: usages, valeurs et fonctions de la biographie littéraire’, Maison Française d’Oxford, 7 February 2014.

‘The Journal Intime: From Document to Literary Œuvre in André Gide’s Hybrid Works’, European Science Foundation conference ‘First-Person Writing, Four-Way Reading’, Birkbeck, University of London, 1–3 December 2011.