• Since 2023, co-editor of the Routledge book series "Popular Culture and World Politics"
• Since October 2018 Lecturer and PhD student at the Chair for International Relations, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
• Since January 2015 Teaching Assistant at the Chair for Historical Science, Swiss Distant University Institute
• 2013-2015: Illustrator und Graphic Designer at the Peacekeeping Training Programme of the United Nation Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Geneva
• 2008-2013: Binational Master and Bachelor, International and European Governance at Institut d'Étude Politiques, Lille (France) and Universität Münster (Germany)

Publications

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

• Desoutter, Morgane. 2025. War, Social Media and Gender: An Analysis of the Use of TikTok by Ukrainian Soldiers, Critical Military Studies, March, 1–27, https://doi.org/10.1080/23337486.2025.2472100 
• Desoutter, Morgane. 2023. ‘White Women Filming Kurdish Women: The Instrumentalisation of the Kurdish Armed Struggle’. Global Society, June, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2023.2221271.
• Laura S.T. Rehbein, Daniel Beck, Morgane Desoutter, Tina Rosner-Merker & Alexander Spencer. 2021. Kurdish Narratives of Conflict: the Politics of the Kurdish Question in Turkish Cinema, Journal of War & Culture Studies, DOI: 10.1080/17526272.2021.2000729

Conference Papers

• "Patriarchal embodiments: A post-structural feminist inquiry into the aesthetic regime of violence", at the Popular Culture and World Politics Conference, Magdeburg, 15.-16. September 2022.
• "Female Kurdish Combatants in French Films“, Standing PCWP Section, EISA, 13.-17- September 2021 
• “G.I. Janes and YPJ: Imagining the Role of Women in War“, EWIS Workshop, 30. Juni - 3. July 2021.
• "Drones and Ghosts: Technologies of visualization and visualization of technologies", at Popular Culture and World Politics Conference, Leeds, 16.-17. January 2020.
• "(Un)Seeing the Dead and the Living in War Films: Confronting Two Modes of Visualizing Modern Warfare", at Pan-European Conference on International Relations der European International Studies Association (EISA) in Sofia, Bulgaria, 11.-14. September 2019.
• "Gewalt in neoliberalen Zeiten: Darstellung von modernen Kriegsführung in Filmen", at IB Nachwuchstagung Internationale Politik, Tutzing, 20.-22. April 2018.
• "Popular culture and modern warfare: a study of images and imaginary of war in neoliberal time“, at Popular Culture and World Politics Conference, Newcastle, 23.-25. November 2017.
• "Les évolutions des représentations de la guerre à l’aune de la globalisation néolibérale : les conflits irakiens et vietnamiens dans le cinéma américain“ at World Congress of Political Science, International Political Association Conference (IPSA), Poznan, 23.-28. July 2016.

Other Publications

• "Visual Peace in Kurdish Cinema", Guest contribution for imageandpeace by Daniel Beck and Morgane Desoutter, 2022
• Desoutter, Morgane. 2020. Rezension zu: “Jon Simons and John Louis Lucaites, Eds. In/Visible War: The Culture of War in Twenty-First-Century America. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2017.” Peace & Change, DOI: 10.1111/pech.12447

• Popular culture and world politics
• Critical, feminist and poststructuralist theories of IR
• Media, visuality, aesthetic and IR
• War films