Karine Germoni

Dr Karine Germoni is an Associate Professor in French Language and Literature at the Faculty of Arts of Sorbonne Université and is currently on secondment to Sorbonne Université Abu Dhabi, where she heads the Department of French Studies and the Department of French as a Foreign Language. 

Her research, which focuses on the study of language and style in 20th- and 21st-century French-language literature, is united by the cross-disciplinary concept of "passage” – in the sense of "crossing", “migration” and “trajectory" – whether it be the passage from one literary genre to another, from one language to another [translation, translingualism, bi/multilingualism], from one creative hand to another [from the editorial function to the writer and vice versa], from one genetic state of the text to another throughout the creative writing process. 

This has led her to study the work of numerous French-language writers of the 20th and 21st centuries who have crossed borders and built bridges between languages, cultures and literary genres, thanks to their nomadic or in-between creative processes (Samuel Beckett, Laurent Mauvignier, Julia Deck, Tanguy Viel, and other writers from Éditions de Minuit, Jean Rouaud, Marie Darrieussecq, Ryoko Sekiguchi, Agota Kristof, Raymond Cousse, Le Clézio, Nicolas Bouvier, Maylis de Kerangal, Arno Bertina, and other writers from éditions Verticales, collectif Inculte, Shumona Sinha, Hala Moughanie, Shenaz Patel, Elisa Shua Dusapin, Robert Merle, André Gide, Marguerite Duras, Eugène Ionesco, Jean Genet, Blaise Cendrars, Simone de Beauvoir, and so on).