Perrine GaudryVisiting ScholarFrench

PhD. French Studies, Emory University 

Graduate certificates: Psychoanalysis, Gender Studies, GCoP (Global Communities of Practice), TPC+R (Technology, Pedagogy, Curriculum + Research), and ECOTS (Emory College Online Teaching Strategies)

Certificat de l’aptitude au professorat de l’enseignement du second degré (CAPES) in Philosophy, [Passed the Ministry of Education Philosophy Teachers’ Recruitment Competition]

Second eligibility for agrégation in Philosophy 

MA, Philosophy, Paul-Valéry University, Montpellier 

Undergraduate Studies in Music therapy, Paul-Valéry University, Montpellier 

Undergraduate and Graduate Courses in Photography at Emory, SCA, GSU, ICP and ISSP

Philosophy Graduate Seminars at Emory (“Feminism and Deconstruction”; “Foucault”; “Politics in Deconstruction”, “Sexuality and Metaphysics”; “Kant, Spivak, Mignolo”)

I am an interdisciplinary scholar of visual culture working at the intersection of the history of photography, continental philosophy, and critical archival studies. My research examines how images produce, stabilize, or unsettle regimes of sex, gender, and embodiment, with particular attention to ambiguity, indeterminacy, and systems of classification.

My work focuses on photographic and medical-visual archives from the nineteenth century to the present. My current research traces the depiction of intersex figures in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century photography, analyzing how emerging visual technologies and scientific discourses rendered ambiguous bodies newly visible while simultaneously attempting to regulate them through intersecting taxonomies of sex, pathology, and difference. Across my historical and theoretical work, I am interested in how uncertainty persists within visual records despite classificatory pressures.

In parallel, I develop research on digital archives and artificial intelligence, proposing ambiguity-aware descriptive and curatorial models that seek to preserve plurality rather than resolve it. Alongside my scholarly work, I engage photographic practice as a research method, working with portraiture, performance-based series, landscapes, and expanded photographic forms. My work has been exhibited in museum and academic contexts, and my photographic series are held in research archives in the United Kingdom and the United States.

I am currently a Visiting Scholar in the Department of French & Italian at Emory University.