Émilie Goudal is junior professor in the "Changing Cultures, Societies and Practices" HUB at the Centre d'étude des arts contemporains, Université de Lille. She holds the chair " Emancipated Imaginaries"

With a PhD in art history from the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre, she was a research assistant at the German Centre for Art History in Paris (2007-2009) and was awarded a doctoral fellowship from the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs at the Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain (IRMC) in Tunis (2009-2011). Member of the "Globalisation, Art et Prospective" collective (INHA), she was a postdoctoral researcher at the German Center for Art History in Paris in 2016-2017, before continuing her work at the Centre Norbert Elias (EHESS/CNRS) as part of the Gerda Henkel Stiftung/LabexMed fellowship in Marseille (2017-2018).

Recipient of the "innovative research in contemporary art" mobility grant (INHA/Institut français), which took her to New York in spring 2022, she is currently finalizing the editing of a documentary film on the "Algerian series" by American artist Dennis Adams. Holder of the 2022 grant from the Institut pour la photographie (Hauts-de-France), her work focuses in this frame on a study of Agnès Varda's photographic collection as a possible space for resistance through images.

Thanks to its support for research in art theory and criticism - 2023, the Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP) is accompanying her on a project entitled "Against the grain. "La Zerda..." by Assia Djebar, or the autopsy of domination through images".

In 2024, she was co-curator, with Nataša Petresin-Bachelez, of the exhibition Ces voix qui m'assiègent... at the Cité internationale des arts, Paris.

Her research focuses on the interpenetrations between art, visual culture, socio-history, politics and issues of memory(s) since the context of decolonization. His current research projects examine the historical and contemporary manifestations of emancipation, to catch and define its outlines, critical sources and contemporary resonances.

She is the author of the book Des Damné(e)s de l'Histoire - Les arts visuels face à la guerre d'Algérie (Les Presses du réel, 2019) and has worked as an associate researcher and curator on a number of exhibitions (Cité internationale des arts - Paris, Rencontres photographiques d'Arles, Musée d'Art moderne de la ville de Paris, IMA, etc.).