Thomas Constantinesco is a Professor of American Literature at Sorbonne University and a member of the research team VALE (UR 4085). An honorary fellow of the Institute Universitaire de France (2014-2019) and a former Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow (2019-2021), his research interests lie in the field of nineteenth-century American literature and health humanities. He is the author, most recently, of Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States (Oxford University Press, 2022), which received the 2023 Book Award from the Institut des Amériques. He is currently working on a book project on the cultural history of metabolism in the United States.