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Caroline obtained her MA in English and French literatures from the AV¶ÌÊÓƵ in 2018. Her early research explored the relationship between the New Woman and the figure of the hysteric in Victorian fiction. Her doctoral project analyzes the ideological work of narrative perspective in a transatlantic corpus of New Woman short fiction from the 1890s. Her methodology draws on rhetorical and cognitive narratology to determine the textual mechanisms by which New Woman short stories shape narrative sense-making along ideological lines, thereby situating their implied readership discursively in relation to contemporary debates on gender. Her corpus comprises established New Woman writers such as Olive Schreiner, Sarah Grand, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Ella Hepworth Dixon, as well as authors rarely read in relation to the movement, such as Mary Wilkins Freeman and Alice Dunbar-Nelson.

In parallel, Caroline teaches literary analysis and methodology in the context of two undergraduate seminars on English and American literature and coordinated the department’s Writing Lab from 2021 to 2024, which provides individual tutoring services to students about academic writing.

She is also active in a number of academic and non-academic associations pursuing, among other objectives, democratic participation and diversity in Swiss academia, vocational integration for at-risk youth, and the development of participative cultural projects in Geneva.

PUBLICATIONS

Aïcha Bouchelaghem, Kimberly Frohreich, Deborah Madsen and Caroline Martin. “What Judges Your Story? Moral Deixis and Readerly Orientation.” Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature, vol. 43, 2023, pp. 139-158, .

PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCE PAPERS

“Seeing is Believing: Focalization as Epistemological Restriction in New Woman Short Fiction.” Narrative Conference 2025, Miami, April 2025, online.

“Playing by the Book: Narrative Perspective as ‘Mind Game’ in New Woman Short Fiction.” Netherlands Winter School on Narrative, , Groningen, January 2025.

“Creolizing the New Woman: The Subversion of Feminist Archetypes in The Early Short Fiction of Alice Dunbar-Nelson.” MLA [Modern Language Association] Convention, New Orleans, January 2025.

Project Narrative, Ohio State AV¶ÌÊÓƵ, 20 November 2024.

An Hour with Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, online lecture series organized by the Mary E. Wilkins Freeman society, 2 May 2024.

“Nuancing the Stereotype: The ‘New Woman’ in the Early Short Fiction of Mary Wilkins Freeman,” ALA [American Literature Association] Conference, Boston, May 2023.

“Textual Ideology and Narrative Point of View in New Woman Short Fiction: Case Studies in Contextualist Narratology,” CUSO Modern and Contemporary Doctoral Workshop, UNIGE, December 2022.

“Between Lexis and Deixis: Working Out Textual Ideology in Mary Wilkins Freeman’s short story ‘Louisa’,” SANAS Biennial Conference, AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of Fribourg, November 2022.

“Narrative (Re)configurations in New Woman Short Fiction,” CUSO Modern and Contemporary Doctoral Workshop, UNIGE, October 2021.

AWARDS / SCHOLARSHIPS

Doc.Mobility Scholarship, AV¶ÌÊÓƵ, funding for a six-month research stay at , Ohio State AV¶ÌÊÓƵ, from August 2024 to January 2025. Awarded November 2023.

Boninchi Scholarship, Fondation Boninchi, Geneva, funding for a study semester at the AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of Montreal (UDEM), from August to December 2016. Awarded June 2016.

Arditi Prize, Arditi Foundation, Geneva, monetary prize for best French composition in the context of Swiss Maturité exams. Awarded June 2011.

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Staff Representative, Conseil Participatif de la Faculté des Lettres, AV¶ÌÊÓƵ (2021-2024)

Board Member, , AV¶ÌÊÓƵ (2019-2024)

Board Member, Co-President, President, , Genève (2021-2024)

Treasurer, , Genève (2021-2024)

Co-president/Treasurer, Association des Étudiant.e.x.s en Lettres (AEL), AV¶ÌÊÓƵ (2015-2018)