He has published on various topics in the fields of American, French and German literature and philosophy, critical theory, cultural studies, and the posthumanities. He is the author of two monographs: Hawthorne: Blasted Allegories (Aux Forges de Vulcain, 2015) and Donner le change: L’impensé animal (Hermann, 2016), written in collaboration with Thangam Ravindranathan. Traisnel’s current book project, Life in Capture: Animal Pursuits in Early America, looks to literary, artistic, and scientific works from Melville to Audubon, Cooper to Muybridge to track how the capture of animals, both literal and figural, composed the tacit logic and representational grammar of biopolitical modernity.