I'll be working on how the ideas of decline (physical, moral, cosmological) pervading ancient literature are inherited and reappropriated in Tolkien's work, and how this channelling of the Classical legacy into a new literary genre has filtered down into contemporary works such as George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire or Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea.
I hold a BA degree in Classics from the Universite Paris IV - Sorbonne, as well as two MA degrees in Classics and Modern Languages & Literature from the Sorbonne and the Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris). I also studied Classics as a visiting student at Harvard University and Pisa's Scuola Normale Superiore. My final Masters thesis explored the Classical legacy of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and more specifically the influence of Virgil's Aeneid on the novel's depiction of journeys.
Publications and events:
(2026): 'D'Enee a Aragorn: la pietas comme point de comparaison' entre l'Eneide de Virgile et Le Seigneur des Anneaux de Tolkien.
Presentation at the June 2026 'Personnages Antiques et Comparatisme' seminar (Paris X - Nanterre).
(2024): L'Eneide de Virgile et Le Seigneur des Anneaux de Tolkien: heritage et ruptures dans la representation du voyage. Final Master's thesis (Paris IV - Sorbonne).
(2024): 'Expo Tolkien a Landerneau: John Howe, le Seigneur des Tableaux'. Bastille Magazine website
(2023): 'Pierre Bottero: La Quete d'Ewilan ou la fantasy retrouvee. Zone Critique website (https://zone-critique.com/critiques/pierre-bottero-la-quete-dewilan-ou-la-fantasy-retrouvee/).
