Since September 2024, Gabrielle Jourde has been a fully funded PhD candidate in political theory at CEVIPOF. Her research focuses on feminist and queer theories, autotheory, and the concept of freedom in contemporary democracies. Her doctoral project examines the transformation of feminist subjectivities in the wake of the #MeToo movement and the current crisis of sexual democracies. She approaches gender studies through a dual disciplinary framework that brings together political theory and comparative literature.
After completing a dual bachelor’s degree in Modern Literature and Political Humanities at the Sorbonne (Paris IV) and Sciences Po, she obtained a first Master’s degree in Gender Studies at Université Paris 8 Vincennes–Saint-Denis, with a specialization in Comparative Literature (2023). She then graduated from the Master’s program at Sciences Po’s École de la Recherche in Political Theory (2024). She has also worked as a research assistant for the
NGO European Alternatives on the Horizon Europe project FIERCE (Feminist Movement
Revitalizing Democracy in Europe).
At Sciences Po, Gabrielle Jourde teaches courses in political theory and gender studies.

Her dissertation, “Conditions of Political Freedom after #MeToo: Autotheories and a Non- Sovereign Feminist Perspective on Freedom”, is jointly supervised by Réjane Sénac and Marie de Gandt.

Conditions of Political Freedom after #MeToo: Autotheories and a Non- Sovereign Feminist Perspective on Freedom