Juliette Dross
Senior Lecturer in Latin Language and Literature at Sorbonne University
Career
Juliette Dross is a senior lecturer authorised to supervise research at the Faculty of Arts of Sorbonne University (Institute of Latin Studies) and scientific co-leader of the “societies in transition” programme of the SOUND project. A specialist in Roman philosophy and rhetoric, she has been working since the beginning of her career on Stoicism and Greco-Roman rhetoric and, more specifically, for the past ten years, on contemporary uses of ancient rhetoric from a practical and interdisciplinary perspective. As the course coordinator for rhetoric in medicine and bioethics in the Master's programme in Biomedical Humanities at Sorbonne University, she is particularly interested in the language of care, which she analyses through the prism of rhetoric (the language of caregivers and patients, words of care, narrative medicine, etc.).
Interests: discourse in healthcare; ethos, pathos and empathy; narrative medicine.
Selection of publications
- “Rhetoric in the Service of Biomedical Humanities,” in Chr. Bréchet & M. Humeau (eds.), Rhetoric at the Heart of the Humanities, Nanterre, forthcoming (2025): This article offers a feedback-based account of the rhetoric course taught in the Master’s program in Biomedical Humanities at Sorbonne University, along with a broader reflection on the place of rhetoric within such curricula. Why place rhetoric at the core of biomedical humanities, and how can we design relevant, well-adapted instruction? What approach should one take, what method should be crafted, which exercises should be implemented, what practices should be examined, and which materials should be used? These are the questions explored in this article.
- The Art of Rhetoric: A Short Guide to an Enlightened Use of Speech, Paris, 2023: This book – rooted both in academic research and in extensive teaching and training experience in rhetoric – highlights the cross-disciplinary nature of this “art of persuasion” and demonstrates its concrete, contemporary applications across many fields.
- The Philosopher in the City: Seneca and Philosophical Otium, Turnhout, 2021: This work, based on unpublished habilitation research, examines the role of the intellectual in the city through the figure of the Stoic philosopher Seneca.