Gabrielle Jourde

Gabrielle started her Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques–funded PhD in 2024 at CEVIPOF, Sciences Po Paris, France. Her research project explores the politicisation of contemporary autotheoretical practices in order to analyse the evolution of feminist subjectivities since the #MeToo movement and the crisis of sexual democracies. Her research focuses on feminist and queer theories of political freedom, autotheory as a queer-feminist literary form, and strategies of resistance to backlash in contemporary democracies. Her work is grounded in gender studies and adopts a dual disciplinary approach combining political theory and literary studies. Her research interests include feminist movements and anti-gender movements, queer feminist theory, intersections of sexuality, race, and gender, sexual ethics, and literature and politics.

After completing a dual Bachelor’s degree in Modern Literature and Political Humanities awarded by Sorbonne University (Paris IV) and Sciences Po, Gabrielle obtained a first Master’s degree in Gender Studies at Université Paris 8 Vincennes–Saint-Denis, with a specialisation in Comparative Literature (2023). She then completed a Master’s degree in Political Theory at Sciences Po (2024). She previously worked for the NGO European Alternatives on the Horizon Europe project FIERCE (Feminist Movements Revitalising Democracy in Europe).

Her PhD dissertation, "The Conditions of Political Freedom after #MeToo: Autotheories and a Non-Sovereign Feminist Perspective on Freedom", is jointly supervised by Réjane Sénac (Sciences Po Paris) and Marie de Gandt (Université Bordeaux-Montaigne). She will be a visiting PhD student during the Winter Term in the Department of Gender Studies, under the supervision of Professor Clare Hemmings.