Séminaire collectif du CREA - Benjamin Dalton

Benjamin Dalton is a researcher in contemporary French thought and culture. He recently received his PhD in French from King’s College London with his thesis entitled: ‘Plasticity in Contemporary French Thought, Literature and Film: Witnessing Transformations with Catherine Malabou’ (2020). He has recently published an article on plasticity in the writing of Marie Darrieussecq entitled ‘Forms of Freedoms: Marie Darrieussecq, Catherine Malabou, and the Plasticity of Science’ in Dalhousie French Studies (vol. 115, 2020, pp. 55-73), a book chapter on queerness and plasticity entitled ‘Cruising the Queer Forest with Alain Guiraudie: Woods, Plastics, Plasticities’ in Beasts of the Forests: Denizens of the Dark Woods, eds. Jon Hackett and Seán Harrington (East Barnet: John Libbey, 2019, pp. 65-91), and an interview with Catherine Malabou in Paragraph (vol. 42, no. 2, 2019, pp. 238-54). He also led the collaborative project ‘Narrating Plasticity: Stories of Transformations between the Plastic Arts and Neurosciences’