About Me
Welcome to my webpage! I'm glad you're here. My name is Maïté Marciano.
I am currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of French at Centre College. Prior to this, I worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern University, where I received a PhD conferred by the Comparative Literature Studies Program and the Department of French and Italian in the Summer of 2022. My graduate training also includes a Master of Arts in Aesthetics and Art Theory from Kingston University’s Center for Research in Modern European Philosophy in the U.K., and one year at the École Normale Supérieure as a pensionnaire étrangère.
My broad research agenda concerns the ways in which affect and emotions shape and intersect not only with literary forms but also with forms of violence, trauma, and belonging. I am currently working on two research projects. My current book project, The French Novel in the Time of Disaffection, offers a literary history of so-called “neutral writing” through the lens of affect, examining how writers have employed anti-cathartic affects, such as disaffection and indifference, to respond to ethical and political forms of violence, spanning from the period of occupation and the Vichy regime to the end of the twentieth century. An article related to this project, entitled “L’absence et le neutre: Analyse d’un écart entre Camus, Duras et Blanchot,” has been published in La Revue des lettres modernes. My second research project addresses questions of belonging and solidarity in twentieth-century diasporic writings of the Mediterranean, focusing especially on Jewish and Black émigré writers in Marseille.