Dr Corinne BIGOT Curriculum Vitae CURRENT POSITION

Dr Corinne BIGOT
Curriculum Vitae
CURRENT POSITION:
Associate Professor in English
DEMA UFR LLCE Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès France
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33 Avenue Philippe Auguste
75011 Paris
EDUCATION
2007. PhD in Anglophone Literatures, from Université Paris Ouest Nanterre. Thesis on
Canadian Literature (the politics and the poetics of silence in the work of Alice Munro).
1987. DEA (MA) in English and American Literatures from Université Paris III-Sorbonne
Nouvelle (Thesis on the Doppelganger motif in Lolita and Ada by Vladimir Nabokov).
1985. MA in English Literature and Stylistics from Université François Rabelais, Tours
(Thesis on metaphors and comparisons in the works of Virginia Woolf).
1984. BA in English, Université François Rabelais, Tours.
1982-1984. “Classes Préparatoires” at Lycée Descartes, Tours (majors in literature, history,
geography, philosophy, foreign languages)
1981. A Levels (majors in History, Philosophy, Literature, foreign languages)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Currently Associate professor in literature of the Commonwealth, DEMA, UFRLLCE (Faculty of
foreign languages and literature) Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France.
2009-2016. associate professor in English, UFR Langues et Cultures Etrangères (Faculty of
Modern Languages) Université Paris Ouest Nanterre.
I teach language classes and literature classes at the undergraduate levels (Commonwealth
Literature, British Literature and American Literature). When in Paris Ouest I also taught
literaure classes at the graduate level and supervised 8 masters disserations in business
English and one masters dissertation in Canadian Literature.
Formerly Chair of the LEA Department (Modern Languages and Business) Université Paris
Ouest Nanterre (2009-2016)
2002-2009 Permanent position as “Professeur Agrégée” in English in the LEA language
Department FR LCE, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre.
1986-2001 Secondary high school teacher (of English) (after having passed the competitive
exams, CAPES in 1986 and Agrégation in 1990).
1984-1985. “Lectrice” of French at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
RESEARCH
My research focuses on Canadian women writers (19 th century to 21st century writers), with
special interests in the politics and the poetics of silence, silence and reticence as narrative
strategies, representations of silenced voices, and of secrets and trauma. I have a special
interest in the postcolonial short story. Many of my published essays are devoted to the
Canadian short story writer Alice Munro, but I have also devoted several essays to 19th
century Canadian female writer, Pauline Johnson-- focusing on her attempts to write back
from a First Nation perspective-- and on the works of Catharine Parr Traill and Susana
Moodie, as travel/settle narratives written by women, focusing on their representation of the
environment and First Nations populations-- including their knowledges (botanics and
technology)-- and underlying the tensions at work in these colonial works.
I am currently working on diasporic short fiction by women writers from Asia, The
Carribean and Africa, working on the idea of « culinary dislocations »
PUBLICATIONS
— BOOKS
◊ Alice Munro, les silences de la nouvelle, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2014.
◊ Sunlight and Shadows, Past and Present: Alice Munro's Dance of the Happy Shades,
Paris: CNED-PUF, 2014. Co-authored with Prof. Catherine Lanone.
– –. EDITED VOLUMES OF ESSAYS – –
Commonwealth Essays and Studies, 37-2 (June 2015) : Special Issue : Alice Munro :
Writing for Dear Life.
‘With a roar from underground’: Alice Munro's Dance of the Happy Shades. Co-edited with
Prof. Catherine Lanone. Nanterre: Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest, 2015.
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BOOK CHAPTERS AND ESSAYS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
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In English:
_“Ghost Texts, Patterns of Entrapment, and Lines of Flight: Reading stories from Too Much
Happiness and Dear Life in Connection with Earlier Stories. In Alice Munro: Reminiscence,
Interpretation, Adaptation and Comparison, Mira Buchholtz & Eugenia Sojka (eds).
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang, 2015,
59-74.
_ “ 'With Robert, Xavier and Elijah in Flanders': Re-Examining Timothy Findley's The Wars
and Its Literary Legacy.” Caliban vol 53, Representing World War One (June 2015): 53-64.
_ “Patterns of Entrapment, Figures of Resilience and Resistance to Closure : Reading
“Thanks for the Ride” with “The Shining Houses”'' chapter 7 in Alice Munro, The Inside of
a Shell. Dance of the Happy Shades, Dir. Vanessa Guignery. Cambridge Scholars
Publishing, 2015, 130-143.
_“Forsaken Objects, Haunted Houses, Female Bodies, and ‘the squalor of tragedy in
ordinary life’: Commonwealth Essays and Studies 37,2, special issue: Alice Munro: Writing
for Dear Life (spring 2015): 16-23.
_ “Discontinuity, Disjointedness: Parenthetical Structures and Dashes in Alice Munro’s
Stories from Dance of the Happy Shades.” Etudes de Stylistique Anglaise. N° 8. Special
issue: Stylistic Perspectives on Alice Munro’s Dance of the Happy Shades. Eds. M. Jobert &
Michael Toolan (March 2015): 15-35.
_ “ 'Did they go Native?': Representations of First encounters with First Nations Canadians
in Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Vol.
49-1 (March 2014) : 99-111.
“Interracial Relations: (Re)writing the Stereotype in Native and Non-Native Literatures:
Pauline Johnson, Catharine Parr Traill and Susanna Moodie». The Memory of Nature in
Aboriginal, Canadian and American Contexts. Dir. Françoise Besson, Claire Omhovère &
Héliane Ventura. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014, 176-191.
_“'The Wonders of the Transatlantic Journey in Alice Munro’s “The View from Castle
Rock””. Commonwealth Essays and Studies, Vol. 37, 1 (Autumn 2014): 25-34.
_ “‘Locking the Door’: Self-deception, Silence and Survival in Alice Munro’s ‘Vandals’”. In
Trauma Narratives and Her Story. Dir Sonya Andermar & Silvia Pellicer. New York:
Palgrave MacMillan, 2013, 113-126.
_ “'None of us escaped the naming': Reclaiming Identities, Reclaiming Space in Joy
Kogawa's Obasan.” Commonwealth Essays and Studies (Autumn 2013): 81-91.
_“'Silence': from the Politics of Silence to a Rhetoric of Silence.” The Journal of the Short
Story in English, Special Issue: The Short Stories of Alice Munro. Vol. 55 (Aut. 2010): 123138.
_ “‘And Another Story Surfaced’: Re-emerging Voices, Stories and Secrets in Alice Munro’s
“Family Furnishings”.” Commonwealth Essays and Studies, Vol 31-1 (Aut 2008) : 28-35.
In French
__“Saynètes en provenance du nouveau monde.” Représentations. (“Appellations”) online
publication (June 2015):14-27
http://representations.u-grenoble3.fr/
_“ ‘These French clichés are symptomatic’ : la mise en évidence des mots français dans
Lolita de Fe Vladimir Nabokov.” L’Etranger dans la langue. Dir. Emily Eells, Ch. Berthin,
et J.-M. Desprats. Nanterre : Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest, 2014, 269-284.
_« Images du silence dans “Vandals ” et “Nettles ” d’Alice Munro », in Pratiques de la
transgression dans la littérature et les arts visuels. Dir Héliane Ventura et Philippe Mottet.
Montréal, Quebec : Presses de l’Instant Même, 2009, 169-181.
_ « L’italique et l’inscription de la résurgence dans les nouvelles d’Alice Munro ». Bulletin
de la Société de stylistique anglaise, numéro 31 (2008) : 63-76.
- Forthcoming “Mapping the Vernacular Landscape. Alice Munro's ''What Do You Want to Know For ?''
and Other Stories.” (chapter seven in a volume of essays on Alice Munro and space,
directed by Eleanora Rao, to be published by Camden House in 2016)
– OTHER –
-Introduction to Alice Munro Writing her Life, special issue of Commonwealth Essays and
Studies, 37-2 (I guest-edited the volume) Spring 2015.
-Performance Review of Alice Munro's « The Office » and « Dolly », May 2015, Word for
Word, Miranda, « Ariel Corner' » in Miranda 11 (2015)[En ligne] 21 juillet 2015.
– Editorial Board consultant-2014- . Editorial Consultant, Journal of the Short Story in English (peer-reviewed journal).
– ORGANISATION OF CONFERENCES –
I am currenly co-organising an international conference on woman's autobiography Writing
Herself in the World, women's relataionship to the word, at Université Paris Ouest Nanterre
(14-15 October 216).
September 18-19, 2015.I organized an international conference on Women's autobiographies
(“She reads to Write Herself. The Figure of the Reader in Women's Autobiographies”) at
Université Paris Ouest Nanterre.
April 2015. International Conferene “Alice Munro's 'Eerie Land' : Dance of the Happy
Shades,” 11-12 April 2015, at Université Paris Ouest and Université Paris Sorbonne, with
prof. Catherine Lanone (participants from France and Italy).
April 2014. International Conference : “Alice Munro : Rehabilitating the Fugitive, the
Marginal, the Disjunctive,” 14 April 2014, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre (participants
from France, Italy and Poland).
October 2013, co-organiser with Prof Françoise Kral and Dr. Sam Coombes of the
international conference « “The Place of Memory in Diasporic Literaturesé, 3-4 October
2013, at the Université de Caen.
-CONFERENCE PAPERS (SELECTION)
— International Conferences—
“The thing Around Your Neck”: making Sense of Home and Self in short stories by
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Edwige Dandicat; seminar omen
on the Move, ESSE Conference, Galway August 24, 2016.
"Fur and Slime : Becoming-Animal, Becoming-Child in "Face" by Alice Munro".
Symposium The Animal Question: Becoming-Animal, Becoming-Human in Alice Munro’s
stories" French-Italian symposium, at Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès 9 Jan 2016.
''Ghost Texts in Alice Munro's Short Stories'' International conference ''Haunting and the
Short Story, '' université d'Angers, 19-20 Nov 2015.
« Jeux et Enjeux des confessions d'une meurtrière : « Child's Play » d'Alice Munro ».
« L'acte inqualifiable au féminin / Female Murderers». Université Jean Jaurès, Toulouse.
Feb2015.
“Patterns of Entrapment, Figures of Resilience and Resistance to Closure.” International
symposium « The Inside of a Shell: Alice Munro's Dance of the Happy Shades ” 6 Nov
2014, ENS Lyon.
“ Life and Death, Lines of Flight and Patterns of Entrapment: Reading “Dimensions” and
“Runaway”” International Conferene “Alice Munro, The Anatomy of the Short Story”
Naples, 2-4 October 2014.
“ 'This should have been the end of her story and a good end, too' : Unbraiding Happiness,
Unbraiding the Short Story.” Panel Alice Munro Unbraiding Happiness. 13th International
Conference on the Short Story, Vienna 16 July 2014.
« Ecriture et re-écriture de la rencontre chez Pauline Johnson, Catharine Parr Traill et
Susanna Moodie. International Conference, « Les Récits premiers/ First Nations Narratives
» Université de Toulouse, 15 January, 2013.
“'It was not long before we received visits from the Indians': Representations of First
Encounters with First Nations Canadians in the works of Susanna Moodie and Catharine
Traill”. Istanbul, ESSE Conference, Panel on Women's Travel Narratives, 5 September
2012.
“Reading and Mapping the Landscape in Alice Munro's “’What Do You Want to Know
For?’”». ESSE Conference, Istanbul, Panel on Alice Munro's stories and Representation of
Space, 6 September 2012.
“ Self-deception, Silence and Survival in Alice Munro’s ‘Vandals’ ”, Internal international
Trauma Narratives and Herstory, University of Northampton, 13 November 2010.
– French Conferences “Les ‘long short stories’: l’art de la nouvelle selon Alice Munro,” colloque Récits brefs
Cerisy a Salle (France) 16 August 2015.
“ The Wonders of the Transatlantic Journey: 'The View from Castle Rock' and Alice Munro's
Art of Storytelling ». Congrès SAES Caen, 17 May 2014 (workshop on Postcolonial
Literatures)
“ 'You have to remember': de la mémoire personnelle à l'inscription de la mémoire collective
dans le paysage : Obasan de Joy Kogawa.” Colloque interdisciplinaire « Mémoire
personnelle face à l'histoire : trace, effacement, re-inscription » Université de Bretagne
occidentale, Brest, 23 November 2013.
« Le Canada de Catharine Parr Traill et Susanna Moodie : terra nullius ou terre habitée? »
Congrès SAES Dijon 17 Mai 2013 (workshop on Travel Narratives).
TEACHING EXPERIENCE : COURSES TAUGHT
— Graduate Classes —
2015-2016: 15 hours of lectures and tutorials on Alice Munro's collection of short stories,
Dance of the Happy Shades for students preparing the Agrégation (competitive exam for
students training to become high school teachers of English) Université Paris Ouest
Nanterre and Université de Clermont Ferrand.
2015-2016: 24 hour of tutorials with students enrolled in a Masters Business Class,
supervising their research projects (business related topics, focusing on marketing
strategies) and masters dissertation (for 8 students).
2014-2015 : 15 hours of lectures and tutorials on Alice Munro's collection of short stories,
Dance of the Happy Shades for students preparing the Agrégation (competitive exam for
students training to become high school teachers of English) Université Paris Ouest
Nanterre
Course (lectures and tutorials) on American and Postcolonial literatures as part of a
Masters course in the English Department, also for students preparing the CAPES (1st level
competitive exam for students training to become high school teachers of English)
Université Paris Ouest Nanterre
2013-2014 : Course (lectures and tutorials) on American and Postcolonial literatures as part
of a Masters course, also for students preparing the CAPES (the other competitive exam for
students who want to become high school teachers of English) Université Cergy Pontoise
2010-2011 8 hours of tutorials on Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolilta for students preparing
the Agrégation , Université Paris Ouest Nanterre.
2009-2010 18h of tutorials on Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolilta for students preparing the
Agrégation and for students preparing the CAPES.
11 April 2016: conference given as part of a doctoral program—corso di dottorato “le forme del
testo” Universitaà degli studi di Trento, dipartimento di lettere e filosofia: “A Stylistic and
Linguistic Exploration of Discontinuity, Disjointedness and Disruption in Alice Munro's stories”
– Undergraduate Classes –
2009-2015. First Year Literature course on Anglophone Literatures.
2008-2015. « Version » (from English into French) translation classes. Third Year course,
one of the majors in the BA in Modern Languages and Business.
2002-2015 « Version » (from English into French) translation classes. 2 nd year, BA in
Modern Language and Business.
2002-2008 : Translation classes from French into English and English into French. Ist year ,
BA in Modern Languages and Business.
2002-2015 English Languages classes 2nd year, BA in Modern Language and Business.
ADMINISTRATION
– Elected positions –
2009-2015 (Elected) chair of the Département de LEA (Modern Languages and Business
Department, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre).
2009-2015. (Elected) member of the Board of the Faculty of Modern Languages.
- Board of Examiners -
2014. Member of the « Agrégation intene » board of examiners for English (the
« Agrégation interne is a highly competitive exam that permanent secondary high school
teachers with « CAPES » (the first level competitive exam) can take after 5 years of
teaching in order to secure a higher salary and better working conditions.)
- Recruiting committees for senior lecturer positions 2014. Member of the recruiting committee for a post as senior lecturer in English, Modern
languages and Business Department at Paris Ouest Nanterre.
2012 Member of the recruiting committee for a post as senior lecturer in English, Modern languages
and Business Department, at Université Paris Est Créteil.
As Chair of the Modern Languages and Business Department, I also sat as member of several
recruiting committess for posts as senior lecturers in Spanish, Portugese, and Russian in th LEA
Department at Paris Ouest Nanterre.
– Inernational Exchange coordinator —
2009-2015 : Coordinator for the exchanges between my Department and Canadian
Universities and member of the Committee choosing students who want to go to Canada or
the United States with the International Relations Office at Paris Ouest Nanterre .
2002-2013. Coordinator for erasmus exchanges LEA/ Sweden, Norway and Denmark.