Laura Ouillon
Research
Research themes
Dissertation Topic :
- Of Trees and Forests in Contemporary British Art (1980-Today): Aesthetic Figures, Memory and Experiences
Supervised by: Prof. Catherine Bernard
Current Project
Bio
Education:
- 2022-23 – Lectrice in French at Queens’ College and Teaching Officer at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge, UK
- Since 2019 – PhD student at Université Paris Diderot
- 2018-19 – Lectrice in French at Corpus Christi College and Teaching Officer at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge, UK
- 2017-18 – Master’s Degree in English Studies at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. Dissertation supervised by Prof. Catherine Bernard: « Mémoire et expérience de/à Little Sparta : Le Jardin de pensée selon Ian Hamilton Finlay » (Memory and Experience of/at Little Sparta: the Garden of Thoughts according to Ian Hamilton Finlay)
- 2017 – Agrégation in English
- 2015-16 – Lectrice at Somerville College et St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford, UK
- 2014-19 – Student at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Media
Publications
Articles
- Laura Ouillon, « Clélia Nau. Feuillages. L’Art et les puissances du végétal », Interfaces numéro 48 (2022), https://doi.org/10.4000/interfaces.5919.
- Laura Ouillon, « Portrait d’arbre, portrait d’une nation à l’ère du Brexit : l’installation Albion (2017) de Mat Collishaw », Études britanniques contemporaines numéro 63 (2022), https://doi.org/10.4000/ebc.12739.
- Laura Ouillon, « Forests of the mind: spectres of deforestation in contemporary English aesthetics », Burlington Contemporary numéro 6 (2022), https://doi.org/10.31452/bcj6.trees.ouillon.