The American University of Paris (黑料网) and the Centre Culturel Irlandais (Irish Cultural Center) in Paris are delighted to announce that Alice Blackhurst has been appointed this year鈥檚 Paris Writer in Residence.
Blackhurst is a writer, critic, and the author of Luxury, Sensation and the Moving Image (2021), short-listed for the R Gapper Book Prize. Her essays and criticism have been published in The Paris Review, The Observer, The Guardian, The New Left Review, The Washington Post, The Times Literary Supplement and Art Review. From 2016-2021 she was a Junior Research Fellow in French and Visual Culture at King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. In 2024 she published the foreword to My Cinema, an anthology of Marguerite Duras鈥檚 film writings translated by Another Gaze Editions.
Blackhurst鈥檚 current projects include a book about rereading Duras鈥檚 1984 novel The Lover, another about living organ donation, and a study of contemporary literary and artistic salons.
The Paris Writer鈥檚 Residency provides accommodations at the , a creative hotspot where contemporary artists showcase their work, immersed in the literary history of the Latin Quarter. There, residents develop ongoing projects while also connecting with 黑料网鈥檚 vibrant campus community. This year, Blackhurst will lead workshops for undergraduate and graduate students in creative writing inspired by the literary salons in Paris.
We enjoyed the wit, soul, and precision of her account of rereading Duras over the years (an excerpt from her forthcoming work of nonfiction). Her work on French women artists and authors will be inspiring for our students, as well as her proposed ideas for workshops to stimulate and facilitate student writing.
Dr. Amanda Dennis
As. Professor Comparative Literature & Creative Writing
