Pauline recently completed her PhD in Philosophy at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her dissertation looked at the political, moral and philosophical value of spy fictions using analyses of contemporary television series (Homeland, Le Bureau des Légendes), interviews with intelligence practitioners (CIA, DGSE) as well as entertainment professionals (showrunners, screenwriters). In 2016, she was awarded a CNRS ‘Attentats-Recherche’ grant for her project TESDEM (Terrorism and TV series in Democracies), and received the Best student paper award from the Intelligence Studies Section of the International Studies Association in 2019.

She was a visiting student at the University of Cambridge (Conspiracy & Democracy project) and at Columbia University on the Alliance Exchange Programme. Pauline has taught International Security, Political Science and Political Thought at Sciences Po, along with Moral Philosophy at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She is a graduate from Sciences Po Lille as well as from the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London). Pauline works at the intersection of philosophy, political science and international relations, and has published in A Contrario, TV series, Inflexions, Intelligence and National Security.

Research interests: Secrecy · Democracy · Espionage · Fiction · Philosophy · Intelligence studies