Aïnhoa Jean-Calmettes is a journalist, editor, and curator who has worked in French cultural journalism since 2013. As a performing arts writer for Libération and CND Magazine and a literature and ideas editor at Mouvement magazine, she has previously written for Trois Couleurs and Stylist. Her radio and podcast work includes “L’esprit critique” for Mediapart (2025), “Zoom Zoom Zen” for France Inter (2024), and “La critique” and “La vignette” for France Culture (2021 and 2019). She has also edited books since 2022, including Des villes en mieux (Le Pommier, 2026), Tour and De marbre (Éditions Secondes, 2022 and 2023), and content for Theconversation.fr
Since 2026, she has been a curatorial advisor to the Littérature Live Festival, Nouvelles Hybrides Festival, and Manufacture d’idées, and she has run a book club with the Biennale de la danse de Lyon and Littérature Live since 2025. She has programmed public talks at venues including Villa Gillet, Institut français d’Athènes, and DOC! Paris since 2017. Her teaching and critical-practice work includes organising a live radio broadcast of amateur critics at Festival Matières vives (2026), founding a critics’ collective at La Bellone in Brussels (2020–2022), running critical writing workshops, and lecturing at institutions including Université de Saint-Étienne, ENSIBB Lyon, UCO Niort, and IFP Paris. She holds master’s degrees in Journalism (ESJ Lille), Philosophy, and Political Science (both Université Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne).