Bienvenue aux Research Fellowhips 2025, sélectionnés dans le cadre du programme "International Excellence in the Humanities Fellowships" du projet GATES

Senior Fellow - Cardiff University (UK), Film and media studies

Alix is Reader in Literature and Visual Culture at Cardiff University, Wales. Her research advances interdisciplinary, feminist approaches to literature, film, and photography in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, while also experimenting with new modes of scholarly writing and dissemination. Especially interested in allusive and underappreciated textual forms, Dr Beeston’s work revalues negative phenomena such as absence or silence, as well as literary and visual objects that are seen as marginal, riven with gaps and flaws, or confounding in their effects. She is the author of In and Out of Sight: Modernist Writing and the Photographic Unseen (Oxford University Press, 2018, paperback 2023) and a forthcoming critical–creative book exploring representations of women and girls in photography. She is also the co-editor of the award-winning volume Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film (University of California Press, 2023) and the founder and co-editor of the Visualities forum at the online platform of the journal Modernism/modernity.

Senior Fellow - Palacký University Olomouc (Czech Republic), Italian linguistics

Francesco is Assistant Professor in Italian linguistics at the Department of Romance Languages of Palacký University Olomouc. His main scientific interests span from the syntax of old Italian to the Italian language varieties (emigrants’ language, bureaucratic Italian, popular Italian, etc.). His most recent work explores one of the intersections of language and technology, aiming in particular to shed light on contemporary Italian through data science and artificial intelligence. He is author of several papers about various topics. Moreover, he published “Breve guida alla sintassi italiana” (Cesati, Florence, 2017) and (with Sandro Mattioli) a “Bessersprecher Italienisch” (Conbook, Meerbusch, 2017). Further info can be found on his personal website.

Distinguished Fellow - University of Oxford (UK), Science education

Sibel is a Professor of Science Education at the Department of Education, University of Oxford, United Kingdom where she is a Fellow of St Cross College. She is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and an Editor for the International Journal of Science Education.  She taught middle school science and high school chemistry in Cyprus. She received her BA from Northwestern University (Biochemistry), MSc from Cornell University (Food Chemistry) and PhD (Science Education & Philosophy) from Vanderbilt University, USA.

Distinguished Fellow - University of Bristol (UK), French literature 

Specialist in modern literature (19th and 20th centuries), Susan Harrow has published monographic studies on modern and contemporary poetry (The Fractured Self, Toronto University Press, 2004; Colourworks, Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, R. Gapper Book Prize, 2021); on Zola (Zola, the Body Modern, Legenda/MHRA, 2010; Zola: La Curée, University of Glasgow, 1998); on epistolarity and the everyday (Letterworlds in Nineteenth-Century France, Cambridge University Press, in press).  She holds the Ashley Watkins Chair of French Literature (Bristol). 

Senior Fellow - Université de Montréal (Canada), Architecture

Irena is a Canadian artist and architect, places her research at the junction of digital media arts, architecture, and urban projects. She began her practice in Poland and then practiced in France and Canada. Appointed professor at the School of Architecture of the University of Montreal in 1990, she teaches architectural and urban projects, architectural theory and conducts, in an academic framework, research located at the edge of architecture, arts visuals and new media as part of urban issues. In 2001, she founded the medialabAU research-creation laboratory. The research-creation projects she has carried out alone or with her team, using video or interactive interfaces, take the form of installations that question contemporary urbanities. These works have been exhibited (and screened) in Canada, Spain, Germany, Switzerland and France.

In 2001, she founded the “medialabAU” research-creation laboratory. She developed “moving collage”, an original method of interpreting space and designing architecture through video. The projects that she has carried out at the “medialabAU” research-creation laboratory - alone and with her team - on video or using interactive interfaces take the form of installations questioning contemporary urbanities. These works have been exhibited (and projected) in Canada, Spain, Germany, Switzerland and France.

Senior Fellow - McPherson University (Nigeria), History 

PhD, MNAL, is professor in the Department of History & International Studies, McPherson University, Seriki Sotayo, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria. He received his PhD (History & Strategic Studies) from the University of Lagos, Akoka, Nigeria. His teaching and research interests include African History, International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies. Presently, he is the Director of the Centre for Research and Innovation at McPherson University, having earlier completed his tenure as the Dean of the College of Postgraduate Studies in August 2024. From 2018 to 2022, he served as the Dean of the College of Humanities in the same university. He was Residential Postdoctoral Fellow of the African Peacebuilding Network (APN) of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), USA (2015); External Scholar of the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC), Accra, Ghana (2015) and Visiting Fellow, World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Boston MA, USA (2015). He was a recipient of the Postdoctoral Fellowship of the African Humanities Program of the American Council of Learned Societies in 2018. He is a memeberof the prestigious Nigerian Academy of Letters (NAL).

Senior Fellow - Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester (USA), Music Composition

Evis is Associate Professor of Composition at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, and Co-founder and Artistic Director of the Pharos International Contemporary Music Festival, now in its 15th year.

In his two-decade academic career he also served on the faculties at Ithaca College, University of Nottingham, University of York, University of Hull and European University Cyprus and was awarded several academic grants such as a DAAD Research Fellowship (Germany) and a Fulbright Scholarship for Advanced Research (USA).

Most of his compositions explore the relationship between timbre and harmony frequently using unorthodox methods of playing musical instruments to create unusual musical landscapes. His catalogue includes over 55 works scored for various combinations, and since 2013, all his works are published exclusively by the University of York Music Press, where he is a House Composer.

His works have been performed in more than 40 countries, awarded over 35 compositional awards, scholarships and accolades to date (such as the Royal Philharmonic Society Award, the Irino Prize, the Andres Segovia Prize and Concours Dutilleux) and were commissioned by prestigious organizations worldwide (such as the Venice Biennale, Klangspuren Festival, ARD, Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, Barlow Endowment, Chamber Music America, New Music USA).

Performers include Peter Sheppard Skærved (a collaborator for his GATES project), the Arditti Quartet, Klangforum Wien, Neue Vocalsolisten, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, New York Woodwind Quintet, Ensemble Modern and the London Symphony Orchestra, among many others.

Junior Fellow - Central University of Chile (Chile), Architecture and Urban Planning

Veronica is a Chilean architect with a PhD in Development Planning from UCL. Her work focuses on innovative approaches on governance, policy, and planning on mobility justice and inclusive decision-making for a decarbonized future, reflecting her passionate concern for reducing inequalities and addressing the climate emergency. She is currently the academic coordinator of the architecture program at the Universidad Central de Chile, where she teaches urbanism, sustainability, and accessibility. In her free time, she enjoys cycling, scuba diving, and hockey.

Junior Fellow - Amherst College (USA), Comparative literature

After studying comparative literature at Sorbonne-Nouvelle Paris 3, Raphaël Sigal obtained his Ph.D. in French literature at New York University. His dissertation was the basis of a book titled"Artaud, le sens de la lecture" (Hermann, 2018). He has been teaching for eight in Amherst College’s French department, where he is currently associate professor. His next book, titled "Géographie de l’oubli" will be published by Robert Laffont in August 2025.

Senior Fellow - The National University of the Arts (Argentina), Performing Arts

Javier holds a degree in film from the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. He obtained diplomas in Metiers et Arts de la Marionnette ,from the ESNAM, Charleville-Mézières, France, and a Licence Professionnelle in Pédagogie de la Transmission Théâtrale from Paris III, France. He is the co-director of the Master 1 Degree in Performing Arts and Coordinator of the Puppet and Object Theater Focus at EAyP, UNSAM, Argentina. He teaches in the postgraduate program specializing in Object Theater, Interactivity, and New Media at UNA, Argentina. He is the founder and director of the digital academic journal "Exploraciones: textos breves para títeres y objetos".