Pierce Lockett

Biography

Pierce is fourth year PhD candidate in the Department of French. His research broadly explores contemporary French literature and culture, French and Francophone cinema, and urban studies. His dissertation investigates the ways that 21st-century French literary texts engage with a wide range of architectural monuments and typologies, asking how these architectural forms (from Mitterrand’s grands travaux to the periruban pavillon) shape lived experience, cultural memory, and literary practice in contemporary French writing. His work is forthcoming in French Studies and French Screen Studies.

Prior to UVa, Pierce worked as the Assistant Director of the Writing Center at Muhlenberg College, in addition to serving as a lecteur d’anglais at l’Université de Paris-Est Créteil (l’UPEC) for the 2024-2025 academic year. He is currently a pensionnaire étranger at the École normale supérieure.

Education

• MA, French, University of Virginia (2024)
• BA, summa cum laude, English and French & Francophone Studies, Muhlenberg College (2019)