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Department of Comparative Literature

Elsa Vallot

Ph.D. Student
Elsa Vallot
Email vallot@usc.edu

Biography

Elsa Vallot is writer and a PhD Student from the Parisian Banlieues and Réunion Island, in the media track, specialized in critical theory. She received her B.A in Public Law from the university of Panthéon-Sorbonne, and her M.A in Humanities and Social Sciences, theory and practices of language and art from the EHESS in Paris. She in interested in hip-hop, martial art, gender and race phenomenology, radical philosophy and politics, materialism. She writes about hardcore rap, interracial relationships in France, the Indian Ocean, South East Asia, and queer realities. In 2021, she published her first experimental novel in French. She is now pursuing a career as a professional fighter while writing different projects and taking care of her health. She is developping a critic of the fighter’s body as perceived in literarure, philosophy and popular culture.

 

Education

  • MS Ecole des Hautes Etudes Sci Soc
  • BS U. of Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne)
  • Univ Paul Valery

  • Research Keywords

    materialism hip-hop race feminism sports rap music theory critique

  • Other Presentations

    • “”Blackness Beyond the Transatlantic Triangle: Hip-Hop in Creole, French, English and The Reunionese Nation”, Music Across Borders: Artists, Industries, and Representations in and beyond Europe”, Paris, La Sorbonne, 2022-2023
    • “Breakdance in Paris 2024 : between inclusion and exclusion with Nacéra Guerra a.k.a B-girl Hurricane”, Olympics Speaker Series, Online, 2021-2022
    • “Quand le sport participe à l’émancipation”, “Sport et Inégalité” : Les Rencontres de l’INJEP 2021, Paris, 2021-2022
    • Pratique du Muay Thaï à la Réunion: un nœud culturel, Hors les Murs, Reunion Island, 2020-2021
    • Gloves and Hip-Hop, European Hip-Hop studies Network Conference, Bristol, UK, 2019-2020
    • Pourquoi l’enfermement nous concerne tous., Entre les Murs, Saint-Denis (93), FRANCE, 2019-2020
    • Counter Public Spaces in France: from french rappers to Gilets Jaunes., After Work Conference, Irvine, CA, 2018-2019
    • Introduction to feminist theory: French Feminism : a brief History, Fall 2022

  • Essay

    • (2022). Penser le quartier de Barbès à partir de ses vécus. Michigan. Journal of the Western Society for French History. PubMed Web Address

    Journal Article

    • (2021). « Les anarchistes couronnés » : rap hardcore et droit de cité. Itinéraires. Vol. 2020-3

    Novels

    • (2021). Le corps, le sang, la rage. Marseille. Hors d’Atteinte.