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Jérôme Viala-Gaudefroy

Assistant lecturer, CY Cergy Paris Université

I completed my PhD in American studies at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and graduated on November 28 2016.
I am a lecturer at Sciences Po, St Germain-en-Laye, France.
My research focuses on presidential discourse and more specifically on the construction of the national identity through conceptual metaphors.

Experience

  • 2019–present
    Assistant lecturer - Contemporary American Politics, l’Institut d’Études Politiques (Sciences-Po, St Germain-en-Laye)
  • 2018–2019
    Assistant lecturer - American Foreign Policy, Université Paris Nanterre
  • 2018–2019
    Assistant lecturer - American Foreign Policy, Université Paris Nanterre
  • 2015–2017
    Assistant lecturer - Early American History, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle

Education

  • 2016 
    Université Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle, PhD

Publications

  • 2020
    The Evil Savage Other as Enemy in Modern U.S. Presidential Discourse, Angles : French Perspectives on the Anglophone World, Société des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur
  • 2019
    Neoliberal Metaphors in Post-Cold War U.S. Presidential Discourse, Angles : French Perspectives on the Anglophone World, Société des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur
  • 2018
    Donald Trump and the Virtue of Power, Revue LISA - Littératures, histoires des idées, Images et Sociétés du monde Anglophone, Presse Universitaire de Rennes
  • 2015
    American Mythology in Presidential Discourse, or the Use of National Shared Values to Overcome Political Partisanship , Revue française d’études américaines, N°145, p. 31-43

Professional Memberships

  • Board Member of the The French Association of American Studies (2012-present)