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2026-06-17

New episode of Skholé: litotes with Aurore Turbiau

In this new episode of Skholé, Arilys Jia welcomes Aurore Turbiau.

Aurore Turbiau holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Lausanne. She is the author of the book Engagées : littératures féministes en France et au Québec (1969-1985), which is based on her doctoral thesis and linked to the Litote software. She has also co-edited various books and journal issues, notably—with Carla Robison—"Grands corpus : jeux d’échelles et enjeux méthodologiques" (2026), and Écrire à l’encre violette. Littératures lesbiennes en France de 1900 à nos jours (2022—with Alex Lachkar, Camille Islert, Manon Berthier, and Alexandre Antolin). Aurore Turbiau is currently working on an even larger corpus: literature related to the women's movement published in French worldwide between 1969 and 2007—a project for which the development of Litote as a standalone software application is planned.

Episode Summary

For her doctoral thesis in Comparative Literature, defended at Sorbonne University in 2023, Aurore Turbiau programmed an interactive database to house quotations from the hundreds of texts making up her research corpus. Named Litote, this open-source citation management tool allows excerpts to be classified according to customizable thematic or formal categories. In this episode, we discuss the features of Litote, the creation of ad hoc software tailored to the specific needs of literature researchers, and the way Litote—as an interface presenting textual data—becomes a form of discourse in itself.

Available on the podcast website, as well as on all major podcast platforms (Spotify, Apple, Google, etc.).

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