The Senses and Memory

Chanelle Dupuis is a PhD student at Brown University in the French and Francophone Studies department. She holds a Master's degree from Brown University in French and Francophone Studies and a Bachelor of Arts degree in French and Spanish from Florida State University. Her research is focused on sensory studies and, more particularly, smell studies. She works on the representation of odors in 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone novels. Her current dissertation project analyzes the role of smells in dystopias in relation to environmental change, nonhuman lives, technologies of smell, and descriptions of atmospheres. Her areas of interest include memory studies, the environmental humanities, Québécois literature, perfume culture, anosmia, linguistics, and graphic narrative studies. She recently published an article titled "Smell and Resistance: Writing to Denounce in Charlotte Delbo's Memoir 'Auschwitz and After'" in Volume 1, Issue 1 of the journal 'Alabastron'. An active member of the sensory studies community, she runs a website called Smell Studies (www.smellstudies.com), which hosts a smell studies blog and an international working group composed of young scholars from a variety of disciplines.