The GPR PSL FAn welcomes four postdoctoral fellows in 2026

Susan FILOCHE-ROMMÉ

Susan Filoche-Rommé holds a PhD in Modern and Contemporary History. Her doctoral thesis, defended in November 2024 at the École Normale Supérieure-PSL under the joint supervision of Claude Rétat (CNRS) and Thomas Mohnike (University of Strasbourg), is entitled Dans la Halle de Freyja: réception et ré-invention de la mythologie nordique au Danemark au XIXe siècle (In Freyja's Hall: Reception and Reinvention of Norse Mythology in Denmark in the 19th Century). Her research focuses on the post-medieval reception of Norse mythology and, in particular, on the cultural transfer of iconological motifs during its reinvention in the 19th century. Working from a variety of sources, including philological and poetic works, works of art, and theatrical productions, Susan Filoche-Rommé takes a transdisciplinary and pluralistic approach. Her current research focuses on the iconographic characterizations of Norse mythology and the “Ancient North” in the 19th century. This research is based on two observations: in the 19th century, there was no visual model for representing the gods of the North, their attributes, and their places of residence; and mythological time, i.e., the fictional intradiegetic era of myths, is not subject to human historical time and must be different from it. In the transition from mythological conceptions of time to its representation, a semiotic transformation is necessarily required. So how should we choose the motifs, settings, clothing, and attributes to give to gods and myths? This project will examine theoretical conceptions of mythological time in the 19th century and the choices made to characterize it contextually, thereby revealing the theoretical principles underlying representations of mythological time.

Susan Filoche-Rommé is also an associate researcher at the Germanic and Northern European Worlds Laboratory at the University of Strasbourg, and professor of art history at the Neuilly-Plaisance town hall.

Publications:

• FILOCHE-ROMMÉ, S. « Adam Oehlenschläger : réinventer les dieux du Nord », dans Nordiques, Bibliothèque Universitaire de Caen n.48, novembre 2025.
• FILOCHE-ROMMÉ, S. « Fatal Spinsters : Thread Work in 19th-century Artistic Depictions of Norse Mythological Women », dans Scandia, Journal of Medieval Studies, Université de Paraíba, n.4, novembre 2021.
   

Jingjing HAN
 

“Antiquities in the mirror: the reception of Aesop in China and the rediscovery of “Chinese fables”.

After completing a master's degree in classical and modern Chinese language and literature in Shanghai (Fudan University), Jingjing Han joined the École Normale Supérieure in Paris (rue d'Ulm) in 2019 to write a thesis under the supervision of Professor Jean-Charles Darmon. Her doctoral research focused on the reception of La Fontaine, Perrault, and Madame d'Aulnoy in China, with a particular interest in cultural transfers between France and China, literary theory and its developments, and translation studies. This research led her to assess the influence of the Aesopian model in the redefinition of literary genres in China at the end of the Qing dynasty and the beginning of the Republican period. Her postdoctoral research within the framework of Les Fabriques de l'antique focuses precisely on this subject, offering a study of how Chinese historiographers and literary theorists appropriated the figure of Aesop and the model of his fables to rethink their fields. His work includes a significant translation component, as it also aims to make available for research a corpus of Chinese theoretical texts on Aesop and fables, as well as texts considered by some scholars to be similar to Aesop's fables. In doing so, the use of the Aesopian model also makes it possible to rediscover and promote the rich tradition of Chinese fables.

Publications:

• « Fausse biographie, authentique fable : la Biographie de Mao Ying. » (traduction scientifique en français depuis le chinois classique), volume 16 de la revue Impressions d’Extrême-Orient, juin 2024, Institut de Recherches Asiatiques, Aix-Marseille Université. En ligne : http://journals.openedition.org/ideo/4118
• « Fable satirique, fable indignée : sept fables de Liu Zongyuan. » (traduction scientifique en français depuis le chinois classique), volume 14 de la revue Impressions d’Extrême-Orient, juin 2022, Institut de Recherches Asiatiques, Aix-Marseille Université. En ligne : http://journals.openedition.org/ideo/2589

Mathilde NAAR
 

Mathilde Naar holds a doctorate from the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Ancient Sciences. Supervised by Gabriella Pironti (EPHE) and Claude Pouzadoux (UPN), her thesis focused on the iconography of Apollo and his entourage in archaic and classical Athens, combining religious history and art history. At the same time, she published the collection of ancient vases and figurines of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. The postdoctoral “museums” project she is conducting within the GPR PSL Les fabriques de l'antique is at the crossroads of her research on religious images and the history of collections. Supervised jointly by Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge at the Collège de France and Raphaëlle Ziadé at the Petit Palais, this project is entitled “Patrimonialising the icon. Actors and issues in a decade of public policy in Parisian museums (1988-1998)”. It aims to shed light on the circumstances that led to the affirmation of the icon as a category of art history in the Parisian museum world, paying particular attention to the national and transnational narratives that these objects support.

Alessio MARZIALI PERETTI
 

Alessio Marziali Peretti studied Romance philology at Sapienza Università di Roma, writing two dissertations on troubadour poetry. In April 2024, he obtained a PhD in French Literature from the University of Montreal, under the supervision of Gabriele Giannini. His doctoral research focuses on the circulation of the Faits des Romains in Italy, particularly along the Pisa-Genoa axis in the 13th and 14th centuries, as well as on the reconstruction of the Latin and vernacular tradition of two minor historiographical texts associated with this work: the Chronique des empereurs d'Octavien à Frédéric II and the Annales mineures abrégées en français.

A lecturer at the University of Montreal since 2024, he has coordinated the creation of two online courses, The Medieval Book and Occitan, Language of the Troubadours. A postdoctoral researcher at the GPR PSL Les fabriques de l’antique, he studies the representation of pre-Christian humanity through nine versions of the Chronique anonyme universelle (15th–16th centuries), a French chronicle designed to be housed in scroll form, retracing the history of humanity from Creation to Charles V (or VI).

Publications:

• « Quatre manieres de gens se partirent de Troye : Troie et sa postérité dans les chroniques d’histoire universelle en rouleau (XV^e-XVI^e siècles) », dans L’invention d’origines grecques dans les cultures textuelles et visuelles de l’Europe pré-moderne (1100-1600), Brepols, Turnhout, à paraître.
• « Répertorier les textes historiques mineurs : la question du titre », dans M. Aresu, A. Giudice et R. Porqueddu, From Anomie to Norm. Strategies of Codification from Antiquity to the Present Day (= numéro spécial de Rhesis. International Journal of Linguistics, Philology and Literature), 2025, https://doi.org/10.13125/rhesis/6374.
• « En marge de la tradition italienne des Faits des Romains : à propos de deux continuations traduites du latin », Memini. Travaux et documents 25 (2019), actes du colloque Rencontres, conflits, échanges : l’espace méditerranéen au Moyen Âge, Montréal (23-24 mars 2018), https://doi.org/10.4000/memini.1338

Recent communication:

• « L’utilité des textes historiques mineurs : le cas des annales mineures normandes en français », Congrès international de Linguistique et philologie romanes, 30/06-05/07/2025, Università di Lecce.
• « Les Annales bénédictines mineures en français, entre Normandie, Flandre et Lombardie », colloque international Le Chronicon de Sigebert de Gembloux en perspective, 03-05/03/2025, École nationale des chartes et Centre Jean-Mabillon (Paris).
• « Copiare la storia romana a Genova : il caso dei Faits des Romains », journées d’étude L’atelier del carcere pisano-genovese nel 700^o anniversario della morte di Marco Polo : studi e nuove ricerche, 06-07/11/2024, Università di Pisa.