I am Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Université de Montréal (Canada). AOS : German Idealism – German Romanticism – Transcendental Philosophy – Metaphysics – Philosophy of Imagination and of Image – Philosophy and Literature – Aesthetics.
After completing a Master's degree at the UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve), I earned a PhD in Philosophy from the UCLouvain (Saint-Louis – Bruxelles), in 2011. There I worked as a faculty lecturer and then as an adjunct professor and Co-Director of the Centre Prospéro – Langage, image et connaissance. After my dissertation, I completed postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Vienna and the Technische Universität Berlin, before obtaining a three-year position as a researcher with the Belgian Fonds National de recherches scientifiques (2012-2015), while working as an associate researcher at the Collège d’études de la philosophie allemande classique et contemporaine at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne. I was then awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, allowing me to continue my research at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften until the summer of 2015. I was hired as an Assistant Professor in German Philosophy at the Université de Montréal in the fall of 2015. Since 2020, I am Associate Professor at the Université de Montréal. From 2016 to 2021, I also held the Canadian Research Chair in Transcendental Philosophy (Tier 2).
I have published extensively on post-Kantian philosophy, in philosophy of the imagination, philosophy of literature and aesthetics, with some forays into ethics. I am the author of four monographs (L'opacité du sensible chez Fichte et Novalis. Théories et pratiques de l'imagination transcendantale à l'épreuve du langage, Jérôme Millon, coll. "Krisis", 2012; De l'Autre imprévu à l'Autre impossible. Essais sur le romantisme allemand, LIT-Verlag, 2016; Le Néant et le pari du possible. Puissances de l’idéalisme allemand (Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Schelling, Hölderlin), Hermann, 2020; Faire monde aujourd'hui. Subjectivité, mélancolie, création, Ousia, 2021) as well as some fifty articles and several translations from German, and the editor or co-editor of numerous collective works and special issues of scientific journals. With Mildred Galland-Szymkowiak (CNRS/ENS), I co-edit the trilingual (German, French, English) collection “Ideal&Real. Aspekte und Perspektiven des Deutschen Idealismus” at LIT-Verlag. Along with several other researchers, I co-direct the Laboratoire de recherche sur l’idéalisme et la philosophie allemande moderne at the Université de Montréal.