Nous avons le plaisir d’accueillir un nouveau postdoc rattaché à VALE, Charlie Gough (postdoc Leverhulme). Il est parmi nous pour un an à partir du 1er février 2026 et nous lui souhaitons la bienvenue.

Short bio: Dr Charlie Gough recently completed his PhD on Male Homosexuality and the Soul in Fin-de-siècle Poetry at the University of Birmingham, which was funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council. As a postdoctoral researcher at Sorbonne – funded by The Leverhulme Trust – he is revising and expanding his thesis into a monograph. His research is largely focused on queer literature in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, with a particular interest in poetry, life writing, and sexology, and the intersections and overlaps between these textual modes. He has published his research in Romance, Revolution, and Reform, and has two forthcoming publications: the first, a book chapter on homosexual networks and communal sexual self-making at the fin-de-siècle for an edited collection on Narrating the Arts of Sexology with Palgrave Macmillan; and the second, a critical edition of George Ives’s unpublished novel The Missing Baronet for MHRA’s Jewelled Tortoise series, co-edited with Dr Fraser Riddell.