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Aura
Sevon
Doctoral Researcher, Literary Studies and Creative Writing
PhD researcher

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Areas of expertise

Feminist theory
multilingual literature
corporeality
literary translation and translation theory
experimental feminist literature
Hélène Cixous
Marguerite Duras
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Biography


Before starting my doctoral candidate studies, I worked as a literary translator for several years. I have translated works by Hélène Cixous, Marguerite Duras, Luce Irigaray and Lola Lafon, among others. I have also written a novel, children's literature and essays. I completed my doctoral dissertation in 2024, and it tackles translingual, transcultural, and experimental women's writing.

Teaching

French literature, feminine writing and lyric essay are among the topics that I have taught as a visiting lecturer at various educational institutions, including the Academy of Fine Arts, the University of Helsinki and the Finnish Adult Education Centre, Helsinki. I have also given lectures that combine theoretical sections with creative writing exercises. In 2021, I taught Finnish literature at Inalco in Paris.

Research

As both a researcher and literary translator, I am interested in the transitions between different genres, languages and cultures. My doctoral dissertation analyses texts created by multilingual, transcultural and experimental women authors. My study is situated in the interspace between comparative literature, gender studies, feminist philosophy and translingual studies. In 2018, I served as a visiting researcher at Le LEGS (Laboratoire d’études de genre et de sexualité) in CNRS/UPL Paris 8/Paris Nanterre. Beginning from 2019, I've been associated with the LEGS as a PhD researcher. In 2022 I was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley in the U.S.

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