Elisabeth Bouzonviller is senior lecturer Maître de Conférences

Conference Writing Herself in the World / Autobiographie féminine et rapport au monde
Université Paris Ouest 14-15 October 2016 Programme
Elisabeth Bouzonviller is senior lecturer Maître de Conférences HDR at
Université Jean Monnet de St-Etienne where she has been teaching American
civilization and literature since 1999. She is a specialist of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and
devoted a monograph to him and one chapter in F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context
(Cambridge University Press in 2013) She has also published essays on American
writers such as Faulkner, Hemingway, and Steinbeck. Mor recently, she has been
focusing her research on First Nations writings with essays on N. Scott Momaday,
Susan Power and Louise Erdrich. She is the author of Métissage et écriture,
published with Publications de l'Université de St-Etienne in2014, the first
monograph devoted to Louise Erdrich to be published in France.
Dilek Direnc received her BA and MA degrees from Ege University (İzmir,
Turkey) and her Ph.D. from Arizona State University in English. She teaches in the
Department of English Language and Literature of Ege University and currently
she is the director of European Languages and Cultures Research Centre. Her
research concentrates on gender ideology, culture and literature and she has
published articles, book reviews and books in Turkish and English on nineteen
century writers, women’s literature, and contemporary women writers.
Sandra Dufour teaches English at Université de Bourgogne, in Dijon, she holds a
phd from université de Lyon (2009) in American civilization. Her research
interests include the relationships between women workers' organisations and
the media
Hajer Elarem is a university assistant at the Higher Institute of applied
Languages of Moknine, Tunisia, and a Doctor in English literature, she is
interested in postcolonial issues, autobiographical writing, gender and feminist
studies. She obtained her PhD in 2015 at Franche-Comté University in France. Her
PhD dissertation is entitled «A Quest for selfhood: Deconstructing and
Reconstructing Female Identity In Doris Lessing’s Early Fiction». And has
published seveal essays on Doris Lessing.
Pin–chia Feng is Chair Professor of the Department of Foreign Languages and
Literatures at National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Research Fellow of the
Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica (joint appointment)
and adjunct Distinguished Chair Professor of Chung Hua University. Currently she
is also the director of NCTU’s Asian American Studies Research Center. Feng was
President of the Comparative Literature Association of ROC (2005-2008), and
President of the Association of English and American Literature (2009-2011,
2014-2015). Feng received her Ph.D. in English from the University of WisconsinMadison (1994). She writes on issues of gender, race, and representation in films
as well as in Asian American, African American and Afro-Caribbean literatures.
Her monograph, Diasporic Representations: Reading Chinese American Women’s
Fiction, was awarded Academia Sinica’s Scholarly Monograph Award in the
Humanities and Social Sciences (2012).
Shannon Finck is a Limited-term Assistant Professor of English at the University
of West Georgia. She completed a Ph.D. in 20th-Century American Literature with
a secondary emphasis in Transnational Contemporary Literatures at Georgia State
University in 2014 and also holds an M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction from Georgia
College & State University. She has published both critical and creative work in
such journals as a/b: Autobiography Studies, LIT Literature Interpretation
Theory, FUGUE, and The Journal of Modern Literature. General teaching and
research interests include: postmodernism, gender studies, feminism,
ecocriticism, theory & philosophy, experimental writing, life-writing, and pop
culture.
Amaryllis Gacioppo is a writer and PhD candidate in Literary and Cultural
Studies at The University of Bologna (Italy), and Monash University (Australia).
Her research interests include the urban walker, postmemory and
psychogeography. Currently she is working on her creative thesis, a collection of
lyric essays following her ‘return’ to the sites of her matrilineal heritage: Palermo,
Rome, Piedmont, and Libya.
Stéphanie Genty is associate professor at université d'Evry. She first studied
history of at the University of California, before opting for French literature for
her masters at UC Sata Barbara. She then turned t American literature for her
PhD, from université Michel de Montaigne, in Bordeaux, devoted to the feminist
writer Marilyn French. Her research interests include feminist writings, and
translation.She has translated works specializing in art history, and adapted
documentaries devoted to sociology and contemporary music. She has published
essays on French, Nadine Gordimer & Margaret Atwood. Last year here she
presented a paper on Patti Smith's autobiography, Just Kids.
Rosalie Ghanem est doctorante à paris 3, en litérature comparée, sa thèse porte
sur “Histoire et mémoire dans la constuction des héroïnes méditérranéennes chez
Tahar Ben Jelloun, Carmen Boustani, Assia Djebar et Venus Khoury-Ghata”
Rodolphe Gauthier est doctorant à Paris IV – la Sorbonne, en lettres modernes.
Sa thèse s'intitule : « L'usage de l’œuvre : un autre paradigme artistico-littéraire
de la fin du XIXe siècle à nos jours (Proust, Bataille, Quignard) » ses domaines de
recherche sont :
- histoire des idées et des représentations ;
- arts du langage et arts visuels (approches poétiques, rhétoriques, stylistiques,
sémiotiques, historiques, esthétiques) ;
- analyses sémiotiques et pragmatiques des images.
Après avoir travaillé sur les questions de « représentabilité » chez Artaud,
puis chez Bataille, il travaille actuellement sur la question des représentations
(images/discours) en apportant une attention particulière au contexte politique,
entendu comme socio-culturel mais aussi financier et industriel (production de
biens), depuis la fin du XIXe siècle jusqu'à aujourd'hui.
Catherine Morgan-Proux is senior lecturer, maître de conférences, at the
university of Clermont Ferrand. She holds a phd in American literature (on Kate
Chopin) frm the University of La Réunion. Her research interest now include
traval writing, and more particularly travel literature written by women. She a
member of the editorial board of the online journal Journal of Unconventional
Parks, Recreation and Tourism Research, Radford University, Virginia, États-Unis.
Floriane Reviron-Piégay is a Senior Lecturer in 19th and 20th century English
literature at the University of St Etienne, France. She has written a Ph. D. about the
“New Biography”, a study of Virginia Woolf’s and of Lytton Strachey’s revolution
of Victorian biography. Since then she has written a number of articles about the
Bloomsbury Group and about Virginia Woolf’s most confidential works (her
diaries, memoirs and essays). She is working on the transition from the Victorian
Age to Modernism and on the relationships between fiction, auto/biography,
diaries and correspondences. She has recently written about travel accounts and
exploration narratives and is interested in generic hybridity. She is the editor of
Englishness Revisited (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009).
Sophie L. Riemenschneider is a Ph.D. student in English Literature at the City
University of New York. Her research interests include literature of trauma and
memory, especially literature of 9/11, autobiography, and comics as literature.
Dr Pnina Rosenberg is an art historian specializing in the art/legacy of the
Holocaust, focusing on women artists' oeuvres and graphic novels during WWII.
She lectures on those subjects in the Technion, Haifa and Jezreel Valley Academic
College, Israel. She has presented papers at international conferences and
published books, articles and exhibition catalogues on various aspects of
art/memory of the Holocaust. Among her recent publications: "From Mice to
Mickey to Maus: The Metaphor of Evil and its Metamorphosis in the Holocaust"
and Salon des refusés: Art and the Holocaust. She has also contributed to the Jewish
Women Historical Encyclopedia. Dr. Rosenberg is the art editor of Prism: Journal
.for Holocaust Educators, Yeshiva University, NY
.
Victoria Stewart is a lecturer at Leicester University Her research interests
include the twentieth-century and contemporary novel, war writing and lifewriting. She has particular interests in the representation of the First and Second
World Wars (including the Holocaust) in both fiction and autobiography. Her
book Women’s Autobiography: War and Trauma (Palgrave, 2003) considered the
work of writers including Vera Brittain, Virginia Woolf and Anne Frank from the
perspective of trauma theory. Narratives of Memory: British Writing of the
1940s (Palgrave, 2006) examines a range of novels and short fiction from this
decade, by authors such as Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene and Patrick
Hamilton, focusing in particular on their depiction of the processes of memory. Dr
Stewart’s most recent monograph, The Second World War in Contemporary British
Fiction: Secret Histories (Edinburgh University Press, 2011), considers the use of
secrecy as both a trope and a narrative device in recent fictional treatments of the
war.
Anissa Talahite-Moodley is a lecturer in Women’s and Gender Studies at the
University of Toronto. Her work and publications deal essentially with issues of
gender and identity, particularly in the postcolonial and transnational contexts, as
well as with questions relating to the intersection of race, gender and identity,
postcolonial theory, women’s writing and literature in the context of migration.
They are published in edited books as well as in journals such as Nottingham
French studies, AUMLA, Studies in Canadian Literature, International Journal of
Francophone Studies, amongst others. Her publications include Carl Rogers
Counsels a Black Client: Race and Culture in Person-Centred Couselling (PCCS
Books, 2004), Problématiques identitaires et discours de l’exil dans les littératures
francophones (Ottawa University Press, 2007), and Gender and Identity (Oxford
University Press, 2013). She has also co-edited a special issue of Dalhousie French
Studies on Women from the Maghreb (2014).
Maria Tamboukou (BA, MA, PhD) is Professor of Feminist Studies at the School
of Social Sciences, University of East London, UK. Her research activity develops
in the areas of philosophies and epistemologies in the social sciences, feminist
theories, narrative analytics and archival research. Writing feminist genealogies of
the present is the central focus of her work. Recent publications include the books
Sewing, Fighting and Writing: Radical Practices in Work, Politics and Culture
(2015) and Gendering the Memory of Work: Women Workers’ Narratives (2016).
Héloïse Thomas is currently pursuing a PhD in contemporary American
literature at the University of Bordeaux Montaigne. A former student of the ENS
de Lyon, she has an Agrégation in English. Her research interests include issues of
gender, queerness, race, history, and nationhood.
Karima ZAARAOUI holds a Doctorate in English from Université Paris 3
Sorbonne Nouvelle. Her dissertation, “Tour et Détour du Genre: les avatars de
l’écriture feminine africaine américaine autour de Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Wilson
and Hannah Crafts” (title in English: “Genre and Gender Issues in Early Black
Women’s Writings: A Comparative Study of Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Wilson and
Hannah Crafts”), aims at opening up new perspectives on the specificity of the
female subject. Her most recent work includes contributions to a new edition in
French of Harriet Wilson’s autobiographical novel. Her research focuses on 19thcentury black women’s writings and the interdependence of race, class and
gender in female slave literature. She teaches English for specific purposes and is
head of the editorial board of the upcoming issue of “Traits d’Union”, a Journal
made by PhD candidates of Sorbonne Nouvelle University.