Azélie Fayolle

Azélie Fayolle is a researcher at CNRS and the author of 'Subvertir le male gaze', a critical examination of the patriarchal structures within literature. In her work, she explores how literary texts perpetuate male dominance and the ideologies behind them, utilizing the concept of the 'male gaze'—originally introduced by feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey—to analyze over a hundred canonical works from figures such as Ovid and Zola. Fayolle's formalist approach focuses on the function of texts rather than the authors' biographies, revealing the ways in which literature can both reflect and reinforce societal power dynamics.