DrAngélique Ibáñez Aristondo

Angélique Ibáñez Aristondo has been an Assistant Professor at University College Dublin since 2024. Her research focuses on gender violence and sexual consent in French and Francophone history, literature, and cultures, currently focusing on Senegal and West Africa during the First World War and the interwar period. This research trajectory has led her to hold a Marie Skłodowska-Curie C2W postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Namur (Belgium) and to work as a visiting researcher at the Laboratoire d’Études de Genre et de Sexualité (Université Paris 8), the Institut Fondamental d’Afrique Noire (Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar), and the Espacio, Sociedad y Cultura en la Edad Contemporánea research group (Universidad Complutense de Madrid).

Her first monograph, Shell-Shocked Intimacies: Gender Violence and Women's Consent in French Culture and Literature of the First World War (Liverpool University Press, 2025), examines how the war reshaped sensibilities, discourses, and responses to gender violence in French culture and literature. In addition to her individual research, she has been involved in a range of collaborative initiatives. At UCD she co-leads the Thresholds of Knowledge research theme. At the City University of New York, she founded and led a digital resource and workshop series on language pedagogy in higher education, and at the University of Namur she facilitated an interdisciplinary working group in gender studies.

Earlier in life, Ibáñez Aristondo worked as a teacher, freelance journalist, and news editor in New York, Paris, Lyon, and Philadelphia. Before all that, she was a lower-income, first-generation high school and college student who graduated in philosophy and media studies while working as a waitress, salesperson, and more across the French "diagonale du vide". She has also volunteered with several non-profit organisations, assisting refugees and women in vulnerable situations, and with children at a primary school in Tivaouane. These experiences continue to inform her research interests and commitments.

Angélique welcomes supervision enquiries on gender and gender violence in French and Francophone history, literature, and cultures.