Vassiliki Lalagianni

Vassiliki Lalagianni is a Professor of European Literatures and Cultures at the University of the Peloponnese. She has published monographs and articles in academic journals such as French Forum, Women in French Studies, Dalhousie French Studies, and Francofonia. She is an elected member of the CIEF (term: 2024–2026). Her research interests include travel literature, literatures of exile and migration, and postcolonial Francophone literatures.

The project

Title: Jehan d’Ivray (1861-1940): une voyageuse singulière et une passeuse de cultures

"Our research focuses on the literary output of the writer Jehan d’Ivray, whose work remains relatively obscure despite existing studies that are primarily biographical or historical in nature (Ragan, 2022, 2025; El Diwani, 2008). All archives pertaining to her work are preserved at the Marguerite Durand Library.

We intend to study Jehan d’Ivray’s unpublished literary works—comprising short stories and tales—by drafting summaries and establishing a chronology, with the goal of producing an analytical bibliography of her oeuvre.

More specifically, we will examine the unpublished short stories and tales, which number over 310 documents.

Our objectives are as follows: to categorise the tales according to genre; to highlight the intercultural dimension of this writer—acting as a bridge across cultural boundaries—through her unpublished stories; and finally, to analyse her perspectives on women and their roles in Egyptian society, particularly during the period of significant upheaval associated with the Nahda reform movement."

Hosting institution: CERLOM – INALCO in Paris

Selective Bibliography

• M. Alfaro Ameiro, V. Lalagianni & O. Polycandrioti (eds.), Voyage et idéologie. Les politiques de la mobilité,   Montrouge, Éditions du bourg, 2022.
• Vassiliki Lalagianni & Jean-Marc Moura (eds.), L’Espace méditerranéen : Écriture de l’exil, migrances et dicours postcolonial, Amsterdam/NY, Rodopi publishers, 2014.
• V. Lalagianni, Voyages des femmes en Orient, Athènes, Roès, 2007 (in Greek).