Alice Lacoue-Labarthe

Alice Lacoue-Labarthe obtained her BA and her MA in German studies at the Université Paris-Sorbonne, with a thesis on the translation and mediation work of the Syrian-German author Suleman Taufiq. She was an exchange scholar at the Free University of Berlin, at the University of Potsdam and at Harvard University. In addition, she successfully passed the competitive examination for teachers (agrégation) in 2019 and graduated from the École Normale Supérieure in 2021, with a minor in Arabic studies. She also works as a literary translator and participated in the Goldschmidt program for young literary translators in 2021. In September 2021, she started a PhD under the supervision of Christine Meyer (Université de Picardie Jules Verne) and Arvi Sepp (VUB). Her dissertation project focuses on the “Poetics of German-language exile literature in the context of the ‘refugee crisis’”