Nicolas has earned multiple MA degrees in literature and language studies from Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle University and Indiana University. In 2019, he participated in the Art, Literature, and Contemporary European Thought Critical Theory program, a joint offering of Northwestern University, École Normale Supérieure de Paris, Sciences-Po Paris, and Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle University.
He has served as a parliamentary attaché to a French representative and as an account manager in Public Relations for Edelman Paris. Additionally, he has seven years of experience teaching French language and literature as a private tutor and has worked as a school monitor. He is also proficient in translating documents between English and French for private individuals, associations, firms, and online newspapers.
His research explores the intersections between literature, philosophy, and poetics, focusing on contemporary critical and aesthetic production in the Francophone Caribbean. His dissertation, titled Des métabolismes créoles : (r)évolutions de la pensée dans l’écriture de la Caraïbe francophone (1981–2007), analyzes how authors such as Édouard Glissant, Maryse Condé, Frankétienne, and Élie Stephenson construct open forms of writing shaped by relation, conflict, memory, and engagement, deeply anchored in the historical and geographical realities of their territories. His scholarly contributions have appeared in The French Review and The Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, and are forthcoming in Nouvelles Études Francophones. Nicolas won the William Slaymaker Graduate Essay Prize in Critical Theory (2024) for his paper “Spirals of Emancipation: Frankétienne’s Exhausting Intermedial Schizophony and Jean-Luc Nancy’s Ex-haussement of Reason” and received an honorable mention for the Prix Jeune Chercheur (2024) at the international congress of the Conseil International d’Études Francophones in Moncton for his paper “La langue est un tableau abstrait: L’Oiseau schizophone de Frankétienne."
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