Dr. Alexis L. Chauchois

Dr. Alexis L. Chauchois joined the faculty at Mercer University in 2021 and teaches all levels of French, including the courses French Cinema, French Cuisine, and Connections between Literature and Medicine. He has experience in teaching face-to-face, online, and hybrid courses.

Dr. Chauchois’s goal is always to place students at the center of their own learning environment by allowing them to be involved in deciding why, what, and how their learning will take shape. He was nominated every year from 2016 to 2020 as an Outstanding Teaching Assistant and obtained the Florida State University Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award (2018-2019), a university-wide honor. He intends to transmit his energy and passion for the French language and literature to Mercer students.

Dr. Chauchois’s current writing project, emerging from research related to his dissertation, explores the presence of blood in Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s novels.

Education

French

• Ph.D., French Literature, Florida State University
• M.A., French Literature & Linguistic, Sorbonne-Nouvelle (Paris 3), Paris, France
• B.A., French Literature & Linguistic, Sorbonne-Nouvelle (Paris 3), Paris, France

Civil Engineering

• Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Université d’Artois, France
• M.S., Civil Engineering, Université d’Artois, France
• B.S., Civil Engineering, Université d’Artois, France

Specialty

Dr. Chauchois’s specialization spans modern French and Francophone literature and culture from the 19th to the 21st century, employing an interdisciplinary approach that blends fields such as medicine, history, anthropology, music, and science. With a background in both scientific and literary disciplines, he is drawn to writers with diverse facets and is fascinated by the mechanics of the text. As the author of articles on figures like Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Makenzie Orcel, Jean-Claude Charles, and Michaël Ferrier, Dr. Chauchois’s recent research focuses particularly on exploring the representation of memory work in Ferrier’s works.

Professional Interests

Dr. Chauchois’s research interests include:

• French and Francophone literature (19th-21st centuries)
• Contemporary French literature (prose, theater, and poetry) and culture
• Caribbean literature
• (Post) colonialism
• Novels
• Polemicist authors
• War literature (World War I)
• May ’68
• Visual culture
• Medical humanities
• Women’s authors
• Memory
• Music
• Sciences
• Cinema

His teaching interests include:

• French language, all levels
• French cinema
• La cuisine française
• French literature and medicine/doctors
• Short stories (La nouvelle)
• Study abroad
• Contemporary French society and culture (18th-21st centuries)
• Integrative Studies

Other Interests

Dr. Chauchois has been a professor of civil engineering in France for several years and a member of the editorial board for KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering (Springer). He was also a visiting professor at Korea University in Seoul, South Korea.

He has a passion for sports and practiced mixed martial arts (he became World Champion in Kempo Karate in 2013 in London). He is now a CrossFit addict, and a level-2 trainer.

Recent Publications

French and Francophone Literature

• “Les Ondes Musicales de Michaël Ferrier.” Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, vol. 27, no. 4, 2023, pp. 607–15. Co-author, Gilles Glacet.
• “Ferrier, le blanc pour redonner des couleurs à la mémoire.” Contemporary French & Francophone Studies, 2023, vol. 27, no. 5, 780-88. Co-author, JoungHwa Woo.
• “Michaël Ferrier, le romancier des ondes.” Contemporary French & Francophone Studies, 2023, vol. 27, no. 5, 683-91.
• “Féerie Pour Une Autre Fois II : Céline, Le Cinématographe de La Catastrophe.” Contemporary French & Francophone Studies, vol. 24, no. 3, 2020, 322–29. Co-author, Gilles Glacet.
• “Le Jazz de Jean-Claude Charles.” The French Review 93, no. 4, May 2020, 136–44. Co-author, Gilles Glacet.
• “L’enracinerrance : Un Pont Entre La France et l’Amérique.” Contemporary French & Francophone Studies, vol. 23, no. 1, 2019, 86–94. Co-author, Gilles Glacet.
• “Les Bouteilles à La Mer de Makenzy Orcel.” The French Review 93, no. 2, Décembre 2019, 101–10. Co-author, Gilles Glacet.
• “Le Sang de La Mort de Louis-Ferdinand Céline.” Romance Notes 58, no. 3, 2018, 415–27. Co-author, Gilles Glacet.
• “Entrevue Avec l’écrivain Haïtien Makenzy Orcel.” Journal of Haitian Studies 24, no. 1, Spring 2018, 136–45. Co-author, Gilles Glacet.

Refereed Book Chapters

• “Jean-Claude Charles or Writing the Poto-Mitan.” Jean-Claude Charles: A Reader’s Guide, Liverpool University Press, 2023, pp. 169–84. Co-author, Gilles Glacet.“Lorsque Michel Houellebecq propose l’Islam en réponse à mai 68.” Does “la lutte continue”? The Global Afterlives of May ’68, Lexington Books, 2021. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793625731/Global-Revolutionary-Aesthetics-and-Politics-after-Paris-%E2%80%9868. Co-author, Gilles Glacet.

Civil Engineering

• “Constructability and heat exchange efficiency of large diameter cast-in-place energy piles with various configurations of heat exchange pipe”, S Park, C Sung, K Jung, B Sohn, A Chauchois, H Choi, Applied Thermal Engineering 90, 1061-1071, 2015
• “Evaluation of gluing of CFRP onto concrete structures by infrared thermography coupled with thermal impedance”, A Chauchois, F Brachelet, D Defer, E Antczak, H Choi, Composites Part B: Engineering 69, 350-358, 2015
• “In situ characterization of thermophysical soil properties—Measurements and monitoring of soil water content with a thermal probe,” A Chauchois, E Antczak, D Defer, F Brachelet, Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy 4 (4), 043106, 2012
• “Formalism of thermal waves applied to the characterization of materials thermal effusivity”, A Chauchois, E Antczak, D Defer, O Carpentier, Review of Scientific Instruments 82 (7), 074902, 2011

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