Guiol analyses the objectifying representations of Tennysonian heroines in the works of Victorian painter John Atkinson Grimshaw.
Clémentine Guiol
Clémentine Guiol is a third-year PhD student at the Centre Alexandre Koyré (UMR 8560) within the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris (EHESS), France. She is currently working on her dissertation, ‘Le cadavre féminin dans le Londres victorien : une incarnation de l’altérité’ (‘The Female Corpse in Victorian London: Embodying Otherness’), under the supervision of Professor Laurence Talairach. She holds an M.A. in Anglophone Literature and Culture from the University of Clermont Auvergne (2021), and she graduated from the English Department of the École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay in 2022. Her research interests include Victorian death culture, gender studies, folklore and the dynamics of belief, and the place of the female body in the horror genre.
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