Gwénaël Jouin

Gwénaël Jouin is a Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor.  He earned his PhD in Comparative Literature from Purdue University in 2025, after completing his B.A. and M.A. at Sorbonne University, France. Gwénaël's academic interests focus on the relationship between the genre of the novel and the concept of truth in the English, French, and Spanish novel from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Gwénaël's current research examines representations of truth in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables (1862) and Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-1927). Gwénaël's research on the novel has been well received at national and international conferences. He is currently working on a book project—based on his dissertation in Comparative Literature—and on a series of articles on Hugo and Proust.