His field of research is the history of ideas in Great Britain in the nineteenth century. He focuses on the question of the secularization of religious and ethical conceptions as well as on the link between religion and science, philosophy and literature. He has published articles on agnosticism and atheism in Great Britain and in the United States. His doctoral thesis was about William Hale White (« Mark Rutherford ») and the crisis of spirituality in Great Britain in the Victorian period. He is currently working on a book about Darwinian controversies. He has also co-edited a collective work about the myths of the garden in Great-Britain and in the United-States (Le Jardin et ses mythes aux Etats-Unis et en Grande-Bretagne (Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2017).