Author: Florian Pichon
Florian Pichon is a PhD candidate and lecturer at the Université de Montréal, where he teaches and researches American literature and film. His work examines the disintegration of the American family, focusing on queer identities and the aesthetics of instability. He has published articles on Tennessee Williams, Alice Munro, and James M. Cain. Recent conference presentations include a queer reading of monstrosity in Suddenly Last Summer (Université de Montréal, March 2024), alternative family structures in The Night of the Hunter (ACFAS 2024), and the concept of charcuterie in The Substance (AFEA, May 2025).
Due to cortisone overdose, Ed turns into a radical enforcer of outdated values at school. His expectations, rather than aligning with the conventional disciplinary regime of the time, deviate into[…]