She is Professeure des Universités of Latin Literature at the Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III.
[2][3] Fabre-Serris was educated at École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses and completed her first doctoral degree at the University of Provence in 1984 on the reception of classical texts in Cesare Pavese's Dialoghi con Leucò.
[4] She completed a second doctoral degree at the University Paris IV-Sorbonne (supervisor: Jean-Pierre Néraudau) in 1992 on Ovid's Metamorphoses, which she published in 1995.
[8] Among other scientific offices, she is in charge of the international network on “Augustan Poetry” and a member of the editorial committee "Savoirs et systèmes de pensée", an interdisciplinary project which collects studies from various fields across the Humanities:[9] Fabre-Serris is in charge of the section on Mythography.
In the last decade, Fabre-Serris has focused more particularly on gender and Latin literature, contributing to the topic with articles,[10] book chapters,[11] and edited volumes.