Alice Blackhurst: AUP’s 2025 Writer in Residence

The American University of Paris (AUP) and the Centre Culturel Irlandais (Irish Cultural Center) in Paris are delighted to announce that Alice Blackhurst has been appointed this year’s Paris Writer in Residence.  

Blackhurst is a writer, critic, and the author of Luxury, Sensation and the Moving Image (2021), short-listed for the R Gapper Book Prize. Her essays and criticism have been published in The Paris Review, The Observer, The Guardian, The New Left Review, The Washington Post, The Times Literary Supplement and Art Review. From 2016-2021 she was a Junior Research Fellow in French and Visual Culture at King’s College, Cambridge. In 2024 she published the foreword to My Cinema, an anthology of Marguerite Duras’s film writings translated by Another Gaze Editions.  

Blackhurst’s current projects include a book about rereading Duras’s 1984 novel The Lover, another about living organ donation, and a study of contemporary literary and artistic salons. 

The Paris Writer’s Residency provides accommodations at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, a creative hotspot where contemporary artists showcase their work, immersed in the literary history of the Latin Quarter. There, residents develop ongoing projects while also connecting with AUP’s vibrant campus community. This year, Blackhurst will lead workshops for undergraduate and graduate students in creative writing inspired by the literary salons in Paris.