Thomas Augais is a lecturer in 20th century literature at Sorbonne University. In the framework of the SNSF project "The figure of the poet-doctor (XXth-XXIst c.): a reconfiguration of knowledge" (2015-2018), he worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the chair "Medicine and Society" of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). On this occasion, he co-organised, with A. Wenger, J. Knebusch and M. Diaz, the study day "Medical-literary networks in the inter-war period" (24-25 Nov. 2016) and the colloquium 'The figure of the poet-doctor' (30 March-1 April 2017).

He also co-organised with Julien Knebusch and Jérôme van Wijland (director of the library of the Académie nationale de Médecine) the study day "Approaches to surgical gestures(XXth-XXIst centuries): history, literature, philosophy, visual arts" (11 January 2018, Académie nationale de Médecine, Paris) He co-hosted with Julien Knebusch the focus "Medical Humanities" of the Autumn Seminar of the Swiss Society of Biomedical Ethics at the Convento Santa Maria Bigorio (Ticino, Switzerland), on 24 November 2017. He also contributed to the Catalogue des peintures et des sculptures de l'Académie nationale de médecine, edited by J. van Wijland, Ghent, Snoeck Editions, 2020 (article on the portrait of Henri Mondor by Constant le Breton, 1955).

His research also focuses on the relationship to reality in the dialogue between writers and artists in the 20th century (Alberto Giacometti et les écrivains, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2017; critical edition of André du Bouchet's La peinture n'a jamais existé, Le bruit du Temps, 2017).  

Publications in the field of medical humanities : 

The figure of the poet-physician (20th-21st centuries), edited by Thomas Augais, Martina Diaz, Julien Knebusch and Alexandre Wenger, Chêne-Bourg (Switzerland), Georg, 2018.

Approaches to the surgical gestures (20th-21st centuries): history, literature, philosophy, visual arts,  edited by Thomas Augais and Julien Knebusch, Chêne-Bourg (Switzerland), Georg, 2020.