Dr. Bouillon is a Lecturer of French at Virginia Military Institute where she teaches French language and culture courses. She earned her Ph.D. in French and Francophone Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 2025. Prior to this, she received a Master’s in FLE (Teaching French as a Foreign Language) from the Sorbonne (Paris IV). Her primary research interests include nineteenth-century French literature, sound studies, and sensory studies with a focus on representations of sound and sound reproduction technologies in late nineteenth-century French fictions (e.g., Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, Maupassant etc.). Prior to joining VMI full-time, she taught at UPenn and Washington and Lee University.