Marie Daouda is a Stipendiary Lecturer in French at Oriel and teaches both literature and language. Marie studied French and English literature at La Sorbonne and at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale and successfully defended her thesis in French and Comparative Literature entitled L’Anti-Salomé, représentations de la féminité bienveillante au temps de la Décadence (1850-1920). This study, published as a monograph, questions the decadent cliché of the femme fatale by studying the presence of benevolent feminine figures in fin-de-siècle novels and by considering the complexities of archetypal figures such as the martyr, the fairy or the prostitute as agents of revival after a time of crisis.

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