Brown University, Providence, RI, United States

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Chanelle Dupuis (Brown University, USA) 

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.

Jasmine Laraki (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium — Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France)

 Jasmine Laraki is a doctoral candidate in Art History at Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, co-supervised in Comparative Literature at Université Libre de Bruxelles. She holds a Master’s degree in Art History from La Sorbonne. Her dissertation explores the interplay between emerging psychophysiological theories of smell and the visual and performative practices of Symbolist artists. Her research lies at the intersection of art history, literature, and the cultural history of scent, with a particular focus on the spiritual and esoteric dimensions of fragrance in Symbolist aesthetics. She is also a member of the Smell Studies Group (SSG).

 Clara May (Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland) 

Clara May is a PhD student at the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland) at the Institute of Art History and Museology. She holds a Master's degree in Art History and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History and Modern French Language and Literature from the University of Geneva (Switzerland). Her research focuses on decorative perfume objects produced in France during the 18th century. Centered on the cultural, social and moral issues surrounding the use of perfume during the Age of Enlightenment, her project also seeks to consider the aesthetic potential of smells in the context of this artistic production. Rooted in art history, her research tends towards interdisciplinarity and also focuses on the cultural history of scents and perfume, as well as the history of medicine and chemistry. Currently based in Paris, she is a visiting researcher at the Château de Versailles Research Centre. She is also a member of the Smell Studies Group (SSG).