Despair is a Sin: Marie Daouda on Literature, Religion, and Solving Cultural Decline 

Marie Daouda is a Lecturer in French literature and language at Oriel College.
Marie is particularly interested in the history of ideas and their evolution, what particular cultural and political climates would cause marginal ideas to become generally accepted, and vice versa. Marie has published several academic articles dealing with he representations of femininity, with heroism and sacrifice, and with the use of Catholic dogma and aesthetics in literature.
She has contributed to UnHerd, the Telegraph and the Critic on issues like post-colonialism, Jewish Moroccan identity and French current affairs. Marie’s main influences are Charles Baudelaire, Joseph de Maistre, René Girard, Philippe Murray, Hélène Cixous, and Edith Stein.