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I taught French in France, West Indies, French Polynesia, USA, Italy and Switzerland. Currently I am a full-time Associate Professor in French Studies, Modern Languages Department, at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Spain.
I designed the online teaching format for French 1, French 2, Italian 1 and Italian 2 at the Empire State College (NY, USA). At the ULPGC, I served 5 years as Vice-Dean for International Affairs at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting a

nd, most recently, I was Director of Internationalisation and Languages.
Education:
Ph. D. in Comparative Literature (Haute-Alsace University, France),
DEA in Philosophy of Education with Pr. Olivier Reboul (University of Strasbourg, France)
Master in Philosphy with Pr. Jean-Luc Nancy (University of Strasbourg, France)
BA in Philosophy (University of Strasbourg, France)
BA in French Linguistics and Phonetics.(University of Strasbourg, France)

BA in Italian (University of Franche-Comté, France)

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My research is twofold:

ISLANDS IN LITERATURE (XX)
The expression "ontological robinsonnade" was coined in 2014, in Le Roman de l'île et la robinsonnade ontologique (Paris, Petra publishers). 
My work deals mainly with authors as J.G. Ballard (Concrete Island), René Barjavel (Le Grand Secret), Boileau-Barcejac (L'Île), Albert Camus, Marc Chadourne (Vasco), Julio Cortázar (La Isla a Mediodía), Romain Gary (La Tête Coupable), Michel Houellebecq (La Possibilité d'une Île), Aldous Huxley (Island), J.M.G. Le Clézio (Le Chercheur d'or, Voyage à Rodrigues, La Quarantaine), Miquel Ángel Riera (Illa Flaubert), Georges Simenon (Long cours, Touriste de bananes) and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (Los Mares del Sur)
Analytics concepts are mainly from Günther Anders, Hannah Arendt, Albert Camus, Mircea Eliade, Jean-Paul Engélibert, Éric Fougère, Gérard Genette, René Girard, Soren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Didier Urbain.

PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION
My philosophical research is driven by the work of Alain, Gaston Bachelard, Julien Benda, Célestin Freinet, Georges Gusdorf, Eugène Ionesco, Ivan Illich, Thomas Kuhn (paradigme shift), Edgar Morin (systems theory and complexity), Emmanuel Mounier, Parker Palmer, Charles Péguy, Olivier Reboul, Jacqueline de Romilly and Simone Weil.

Philosophy of education includes hipothesis based on the end of institutional constructivim and the rise of connectivism (Bertalanffy, Boghossian, Michéa, Milner, Morin, Popper) as well as a reflection about the rôle of AI in the learning/teaching process (Anders, Arendt, Briguelli, Cassou-Noguès, Fogel & Patino, Harari, Redeker, Serres). I am a strong supporter of free and mobile learning resources combined with meaningfull tech-free F2F class time (Bowen).
 

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