Nicolas has earned multiple degrees in literature and language studies. He holds an M.A. in Comparative Literature with a focus on translation from Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle University/Paris Diderot University (2020), an M.A. in French Literature and Language from Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle University (2021), and an M.A. in French and Francophone Studies from Indiana University (2023). 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.
Nicolas has served as a parliamentary attaché to a French representative (député) and as an account manager for Edelman Paris in Public Relations. Additionally, he has seven years of experience as a private tutor in French language and literature and has also worked as a school monitor. He is proficient in translating documents between English and French for private individuals, associations, firms, and online newspapers.
His research interests are primarily focused on 20th and 21st-century Caribbean philosophy and novels, canon-making, the history of French critique, and the reception of Caribbean thinkers and writers within academic critique. He won the William Slaymaker Graduate Essay Prize in Critical Theory (2024) with a paper entitled “Spirals of Emancipation: Frankétienne’s Exhausting Intermedial Schizophony and Jean-Luc Nancy’s Ex-haussement of Reason.” Additionally, he 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 entitled “La langue est un tableau abstrait: L’Oiseau schizophone de Frankétienne.”
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