Department of French and Italian

Victoria has an M.A. with honors in Comparative Literature (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 2012). She is currently a Ph.D. student in French/Francophone Studies with a minor in Comparative Media Studies. Her dissertation explores the reception of transmedia interactive narratives. She is also a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at Université de Poitiers where she focuses on transmedia adaptation of fairytales, adapting the tools of narratology to a transmedia analysis. Victoria is part of the Experimental Humanities Lab directed by Prof. Fritz Breithaupt. She is also interested in cinema, adaptation studies, possible worlds theories in fiction, and the study of violence.