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Curriculum Vitae

Ilana Eloit is Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality at the Institute of Gender Studies, Geneva School of Social Sciences, AV����Ƶ. Before joining the AV����Ƶ, she was lecturer (Première assistante) at the Center for Gender Studies of the AV����Ƶ of Lausanne, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Laboratoire d’É�ٳܻ��� de Genre et de Sexualité (LEGS) of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). She holds a PhD in Gender Studies from the London School of Economics, a BA (Social sciences and humanities) and MA (Public affairs) from Sciences Po Paris, and an MA in Gender studies from Paris 8 AV����Ƶ.

Her interdisciplinary work brings together feminist, lesbian and queer theories with historical and cultural analysis of feminist and lesbian movements in France. In her research, she investigates the epistemic and historical conditions of production of feminist and LGBTQ political subjects, and explores “banished” histories from which to interrogate the conventional genealogies and blind spots of feminist history and theory. She pays particular attention to the controversies around the definition of the political subject of feminism, controversies on sexuality in the French Women’s liberation movement, and the epistemological dissonances between woman and lesbian subject-positions. Her PhD thesis, Lesbian Trouble: Feminism, Heterosexuality and the French Nation (1970-1981) was supervised by Clare Hemmings and examined by Judith Butler and Rahul Rao who awarded the doctorate with no corrections. In her work, she was the first to exhume the lost history of Monique Wittig’s exile to the United States in the mid-1970s, due to feminist resistances against her politicization of lesbianism.

Her work has been published in journals like Yale French Studies, Feminist Theory, 20 & 21, Raisons politiques,��Cahiers du genre, Le Temps des ��é�徱���� and ��é�ٰ��DZ�DZ����پ���ܱ��. She has also contributed to the Dictionnaire des féministes: France, XVIIIe-XXIe siècle (ed. Christine Bard, Presses Universitaires de France, 2017) and to the Encyclopédie critique du genre (ed. Juliette Rennes, La Découverte, 2021). She edited with Hugo Bouvard and Mathias Quéré the book (La Dispute, 2023). She also edited with Mauro Cabral Grinspan, David Paternotte and Mieke Verloo the special issue in DiGeSt – Journal of diversity and gender studies (2023). With Clare Hemmings, she edited the special issue published in Feminist Theory in 2019. She has been the editor with Marta Segarra of the CNRS-led and is an editorial board member of the “Question de genre” series at Éditions Seismo.

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RESEARCH FIELDS

• LGBTQ studies
• Feminist, lesbian and queer theories
• Sociology of feminist and LGBTQ+ movements
• Queer historiography and affect studies
• French republicanism and politics of difference (gender, sexuality, race, class)
• Politics of cultural translation in gender studies

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EDUCATION

2014-2018, PhD, Gender Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science – LSE. Thesis title: Lesbian Trouble: Feminism, Heterosexuality and the French Nation (1970–1981). Supervisor: Clare Hemmings. Advisor: Sumi Madhok. Thesis examiners: Judith Butler (AV����Ƶ of California, Berkeley) and Rahul Rao (School of Oriental and African Studies – SOAS). Awarded with no corrections (8 October 2018).

2007-2013, M.A. in Gender Studies, Paris 8 AV����Ƶ. Master in Public Affairs, Sciences Po Paris. B.A. in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Sciences Po Paris.

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FACULTY APPOINTMENTS

Since 2022, Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality, Institute of Gender Studies, Geneva School of Social Sciences, AV����Ƶ.

Since 2021, Associate researcher, Laboratoire d’É�ٳܻ��� de Genre et de Sexualité – LEGS (research unit of the National Center for Scientific Research – CNRS, Paris).

2021-2022, Lecturer (Première assistante), Centre for Gender Studies – CEG, Institute of Social Sciences, AV����Ƶ of Lausanne.

2020-2021, Chair of Queer Arts, Paris School of Fine Arts.

2019-2021, Postdoctoral researcher, LEGS (CNRS).

2019-2021, Lecturer (chargée de cours), Sciences Po Paris.

2020, Lecturer (chargée de cours), Paris 8 AV����Ƶ, Department of Political Science.

2020, Lecturer (chargée de cours), Sciences Po Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

2016-2017, Postgraduate teaching assistant, London School of Economics, Department of Gender Studies.

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ACADEMIC RESPONSIBILITIES

Since 2022, Head of the Master program in Gender Studies. Geneva School of Social Sciences, AV����Ƶ.

Since 2022, Member of the “Commission Égalité” School of Social Sciences, AV����Ƶ.

Since 2022, Jury member of the “Prix Genre” (AV����Ƶ).

Since 2022, Board member of the Swiss Association for Gender Studies (SAGS).

2019-2021, Scientific coordinator of the CNRS-led International Research Network (IRN) “World Gender: Cultural and Political Translations of Gender and Gender Studies”. Partner institutions of the IRN: Cornell AV����Ƶ, Duke AV����Ƶ, AV����Ƶ of Barcelona, AV����Ƶ of Hassan II Casablanca, AV����Ƶ of Helsinki, AV����Ƶ of Leeds, and LEGS.

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ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS AND PUBLIC EVENTS

Panels “Utopies lesbiennes: théories pratiques de résistance et convergences des luttes” (with Camille Morin-Delaurière) and “Le féminisme à l’épreuve des transidentités” (with David Paternotte), 4-7 July 2023. 3^{è����} congrès international de l’Institut du Genre ���Ծ������������é Toulouse Jean-Jaurès.

Conference “Monique Wittig: Twenty Years Later” (with William M. Burton, Carolina Topini and Agnès Vannouvong). AV����Ƶ of California, Berkeley (17-18 March 2023) and AV����Ƶ (27-28 June 2023).

Conference “Traffic in Gender: Political Uses of Translation Within and Outside Academia” (with Éric Fassin and Marta Segarra), 12-14 April 2022. Laboratoire d’É�ٳܻ��� de Genre et de Sexualité – CNRS.

Panel “Produire les ‘bons’ et les ‘mauvais’ sujets féministes : théories, institutions, mouvements sociaux” (with Emmanuelle David-Sachet and Eléonore Lépinard), 6 July 2022. 16^{è����} congrès de l’Association française de science politique.

Public events series and monthly research seminar of the Centre for Gender Studies, 2021-2022. AV����Ƶ of Lausanne (with Selima Kebaïli).

Symposium “Race et blanchité : penser la norme” (with Sébastien Chauvin, Selima Kebaïli, Eléonore Lépinard and Gaspard Rey), 8 September 2021. AV����Ƶ of Lausanne.

Launch of the Dictionary of Gender in Translation, 18 June 2021. Laboratoire d’É�ٳܻ��� de Genre et de Sexualité – CNRS.

Public events with , François Chaignaud and Rosi Braidotti (with Fabrice Bourlez), 2020-2021. Paris School of Fine Arts.

Monthly research seminar “Traduire le genre” (with Anne Emmanuelle Berger), 2019-2021. Laboratoire d’É�ٳܻ��� de Genre et de Sexualité – CNRS.

IRN “World Gender” research workshops, 6-8 November 2019. AV����Ƶ of Barcelona.

Panel “Bad Subjects: The ‘other(s)’ of Feminist Theory and Mobilizations” (with Eléonore Lépinard), 8-10 June 2017. European Conference on Politics and Gender.

Panel “Practicing Decoloniality in Gender Studies”, 22 February 2017. London School of Economics.

(“Feminism in Transnational Times: A Conversation with Christine Delphy” and screening of the documentary “Je ne suis pas féministe, mais…”), 8-10 February 2017. London School of Economics.

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CONFERENCE/SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLIC TALKS (SELECTION)

“Spectres du MLF: Généalogie critique des exclusions contemporaines du féminisme”, 16 May 2024. Research seminar “Atelier Genre(s) et Sexualité(s)” (David Paternotte). Free AV����Ƶ of Brussels.

, 26 April 2024. Public lecture for the “Comment vivre maintenant ?” program curated by Judith Butler at the Centre Pompidou.

“Specters of Monique Wittig”, 25 October 2023. Public lecture. Ludwig Maximilian AV����Ƶ of Munich.

“Penser le genre en traduction”, 6 March 2023. Public lecture (with Marta Segarra). Institute of Gender Studies AV����Ƶ.

“La féministe paradoxale : lesbianisme et Mouvement de libération des femmes” 21 November 2022. Roundtable “Des générations du féminisme universitaire : une conversation autour de Joan W. Scott” (with Joan W. Scott, Fanny Gallot, Kaoutar Harchi, Caroline Ibos, Michelle Perrot and Clyde Plumauzille). LEGS (Paris 8/Paris Nanterre/CNRS) Maison des Sciences de l’Hommes – Paris Nord.

“Féminisme, lesbianisme et mouvements queer : ruptures et continuités”, 27 November 2022. Public lecture, festival “Les fabuleuses”, Montpellier.

“�ĘNous n’aurons pas une guerre des sexes’ : le féminisme et les discours sur l’amour hétérosexuel”, 25 November 2022. Research seminar “Les discours du sexe et de l’amour : politiques de l’intime” (Yasmina Foehr-Janssens and Agnès Vannouvong). AV����Ƶ.

“Les lesbiennes ne sont pas des femmes”, 6 November 2022. Public lecture, ���Ծ������������és du Mouvement HF, Lyon.

“French hetero-feminism and the erased history of Monique Wittig’s exile to the US”, 17 June 2022. 11^th European Feminist Research Conference. AV����Ƶ of Milano – Bicocca.

“Translating the Untranslatable”, 12 April 2022. Conference “Traffic in Gender: Political Uses of Translation Within and Outside Academia”. Laboratoire d’É�ٳܻ��� de Genre et de Sexualité – CNRS.

“Faire de l’histoire avec les théories queer”, 19 November 2021. Gender CUSO workshop “Queer and LGBTQ+ Methods”. AV����Ƶ of Lausanne.

“La théorie et l’épistémologie lesbiennes de Monique Wittig : pour une histoire critique du Mouvement de libération des femmes”, 7 October 2021. Research seminar “Wittig, sexualité & genre. Entre théorie et fiction” (Yasmina Foehr-Janssens and Agnès Vannouvong). AV����Ƶ.

“Untranslatability as a political tool: the Americanization of lesbianism in the French Women’s liberation movement”, 30 September 2021. Research seminar “Traduire le genre” (Anne E. Berger and Ilana Eloit). Laboratoire d’É�ٳܻ��� de Genre et de Sexualité – CNRS.

“Lesbians are not women: Feminism, Heterosexuality and French Universalism in the 1970s and 1980s”, 21 June 2021. 27^th International Conference of Europeanists, Council for European Studies.

“La contrainte à l’hétérosexualité”, 14 January 2021. Public lecture, Sciences Po Bordeaux.

“Minorités lesbiennes dans le féminisme : une histoire critique du Mouvement de libération des femmes”, 7 January 2021. Research seminar “Genre, sexualité, institutions : régulations et subjectivations” (Emmanuel Beaubatie and Michel Bozon). EHESS.

Respondent to Éric Fassin’s talk “Sexuality and Democracy: Exploring the Links”. 15 December 2020. SEXDEM, Sexuality and Democracy Project. Kone Foundation.

“Trouble dans le féminisme : le Mouvement de libération des femmes au prisme de la (non) politisation du lesbianisme”, 2 April 2020. Research seminar “Genre et recherche” (Réjane Sénac). Sciences Po Paris.

“Les festins d’Ilana”, invited by the Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir to curate and introduce a public screening of feminist video archives, 2 February 2020. Cinéma Le Luminor Hôtel de Ville, Paris.

“French hetero-feminism and Monique Wittig’s exile to the US in the 1970s”, 11 October 2019. Conference “Drafting Monique Wittig”. Yale AV����Ƶ.

“Les lesbiennes ne sont pas des femmes”, 4 July 2019. Public lecture, festival “Loud and Queer”. La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris.

“Réguler les frontières du sujet féministe : corps légitimes et corps déviants dans la rhétorique du Mouvement de libération des femmes”, 17 May 2019. Symposium “Corps républicains, corps déviants”. Paris 8 AV����Ƶ.

“Faire de la théorie critique à partir de sources orales : méthodes et enjeux”, 26 April 2019. Symposium “Les entretiens en sciences sociales : pouvoir, mémoire et éthique”. Free AV����Ƶ of Brussels.

“Le rôle de la presse lesbienne dans l’émergence d’un sujet politique lesbien (1976-1990)”, 19 April 2019. Research seminar “Genre, féminismes et mobilisations collectives” (Florys Castan-Vicente, Bibia Pavard, Alice Romerio and Bérangère Savinel). EHESS.

“Le Mouvement de libération des femmes était-il ‘hétéro-féministe’ ? Analyse critique de discours féministes révolutionnaires (1970-1981)”, 14 December 2018. Research seminar “Genre, médias et communication” (Nelly Quemener and Virginie Julliard). Sorbonne Nouvelle AV����Ƶ.

“Aux limites de la révolution féministe : le Mouvement de libération des femmes était-il un mouvement hétérosexuel ? (1970-1981)”, 13 November 2018. Research seminar “69, années érotiques” (David Paternotte). Free AV����Ƶ of Brussels.

“The feminist archive as a site of epistemic violence”, 5 December 2017. Research seminar “Gender, Knowledge and Research Practice” (Jacob Breslow). London School of Economics.

“The Americanization of lesbianism in 1970s French feminist discourses”, 26 June 2017. The Society for the Study of French History Annual Conference. AV����Ƶ of Strathclyde.

“The ‘others’ of French feminism from the second wave to the present” (with Eléonore Lépinard), 10 June 2017. European Conference on Politics and Gender – ECPG. AV����Ƶ of Lausanne.

“Activisme culturel, presse et politiques de la représentation : histoire du militantisme lesbien dans les années 1980”, 22 October 2016. Public lecture (conference “Mémoires et transmission des archives lesbiennes et féministes”), Paris City Hall.

“The forgotten history of an anti-racist lesbian thought in France (1980-1985)”, 3 July 2016. Conference “Radical Histories/Histories of Radicalism”. Queer Mary AV����Ƶ of London.

“Le lesbianisme : enfant terrible du féminisme ? Le sujet lesbien et les recompositions du sujet féministe (1970-1985)”, 20 March 2015. Research seminar “Genres, féminismes et mobilisations collectives” (Marion Charpenel, Alban Jacquemard, Camille Masclet and Bibia Pavard). EHESS.

“Feminist trouble: the lesbian political subject and the archaeology of an anti-racist lesbian thought in France (1970-1985)”, 20 February 2015. Lesbian Lives Conference. AV����Ƶ of Brighton.

“Du féminisme au lesbianisme radical : la construction du sujet lesbien au prisme de la politisation des violences contre les lesbiennes (1970-1982)”, 14 November 2014. Symposium “Injures sexistes et LGBT-phobes”. AV����Ƶ of Angers.

“Le sujet politique lesbien en France : genèse d’une cause sexuelle (1970-1981)”, 7 June 2014. Conference “Causes sexuelles : sexualités et mobilisations collectives”. AV����Ƶ of Lausanne.

“The construction of a lesbian political subject in France: an instructive starting point? (1970-1981)”, 14 December 2013. Symposium “Queer Theory in Academia: The Case of France in an International Frame”. AV����Ƶ of Warwick.

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MEDIA INTERVIEWS (SELECTION)

• Radio interviews

on RTS (Histoire Vivante) (17 June 2024).

on Spectre (Du Poil sous les bras) (January 2024).

“Avoir raison avec… Monique Wittig”, on France Culture (24 July 2023).

“Avoir raison avec… Monique Wittig”, on France Culture (26 July 2023).

on RTS (27 June 2023).

“Monique Wittig��: penser le féminisme et le lesbianisme”, School of Social Sciences podcast (AV����Ƶ) (April 2023).

on Arte Radio (Un podcast à soi) (December 2022).

“” on Radio Parleur (April 2021).

“” on France Culture (July 2020).

“” on Binge Audio (November 2019).

“” on France Culture (LSD, la série documentaire) (November 2019).

“” on Radio Fréquence Paris Plurielle (Les Oreilles loin du front) (February 2019).

“” on France Culture (La Fabrique de l’histoire) (November 2018).

• Newspaper and online interviews

,��T le magazine du Temps��(Julie Rambal), 5 March 2025, p. 20-22.

, La Déferlante (Camille Regache), February 2025, n° 17, p. 115-121.

, Rue 89 Lyon (Laure Solé), 25 September 2023.

, Le Monde (Marie Slavicek and Juliette Bénézit), 8 March 2023.

“”, ������é�����پ��Dz� (Maxime Macé, Pierre Plottu and Johanna Luyssen), 12 September 2022.

“”, Le Monde (Marie Slavicek), 18 June 2022.

“”, Les Inrockuptibles (Marie Kirschen), 27 April 2022.

“”, Le Courrier (Dominique Hartmann), 10 April 2022.

“”, Sciences humaines (Marion Rousset), n° 63, June 2021.

, Komitid et AFP (Eléonore Hughes), 3 May 2021.

“”, Le Monde (Marion Dupont), 4 March 2020.

“”, i-D Vice (Matthieu Foucher), 5 July 2019.

“�Ę”, Sciences Po website, December 2018. .