Cécile Alduy
A former student of the École normale supérieure in Paris, Cécile Alduy is Professor of French literature and culture at Stanford University, which she joined in 2003. She is also an Associated Scholar at the CEVIPOF (Sciences PO Paris) since 2017.
She is the Chair de la Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages at Stanford University.
She holds a Ph.D on political mythologies in French Renaissance poetry and an agrégation in French literature. Since 2011, her work has focused on political discourse analysis, especially of the far right and of presidential discourses in France. Her methodological approach combines stylistics, semiology, political communication theory, and digital humanities data analysis of textual corpora.
A regular contributor to Le Monde, AOC, The Nation, Politico, Foreign Affairs, and L’Obs among others, she has published Marine Le Pen prise aux mots. Décryptage du nouveau discours frontiste (Seuil: 2015) and Ce qu’ils disent vraiment. Les politiques pris aux mots (Seuil 2017). Her latest essay, La Langue de Zemmour (Seuil), was released in February 2022.
Research Fields
Political discourse analysis, Political mythologies, Far right, Presidential speeches
