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Chanelle Dupuis is a PhD student at Brown University in the French and Francophone Studies department. Her research is focused on sensory studies, and more particularly smell studies. She works on the representation of odors in 20th and 21st century French and Francophone novels. Her current dissertation project analyzes smells in dystopias in relation to environmental change, nonhuman lives, technologies of smell, and descriptions of atmospheres. Her areas of interest include memory studies, the environmental humanities, Québécois literature, perfume culture, anosmia, linguistics, and graphic narrative studies. She recently published an article titled “Smell and Resistance: Writing to Denounce in Charlotte Delbo’s memoir Auschwitz and After” in Volume 1, Issue 1 of the journal Alabastron. An active member of the sensory studies community, she runs a website called Smell Studies (www.smellstudies.com) which hosts a smell studies blog and an international working group composed of young scholars from a variety of disciplines. Alongside her research, she is also a published poet and translator who enjoys writing about her home province of Québec and is passionate about the power of language.