Recent Research Publications

All members of staff in the Department are research-active and maintain a steady stream of quality outputs. This page gives examples of some of our recent and forthcoming publications. Full lists of publications by staff can be found in our individual profiles, via the Staff link in the left-hand box.

Amanda Crawley-Jackson

• Denis Darzacq and Amanda Crawley Jackson, Hyper (Paris: Filigranes Editions, 2009)
• 'Deux temps de lecture: pellicule and pellicula in the photographic works of Natacha Lesueur', French Cultural Studies, 20.1 (February 2009), 83-98

Julia Dobson

• 'Jacques Audiard: Contesting Filiations', in K. Ince (ed.), Auteurism from Assayas to Ozon, (Manchester University Press, 2008), pp. 38-58
• 'Cixous' Theatre and the Returns of the Dead' in Hutton (ed.), Redefining the Real: The Fantastic in Contemporary French and Francophone Women's Writing (Peter Lang, 2009), pp. 173-186

Renate Günther

• 'Images archétypes et voix archaïques: les origines du cinéma de Marguerite Duras', in Marguerite Duras: écriture, écritures, ed. by M. El Maïzi and B. Stimpson (Paris: Minard, 2007), pp. 157-167
• 'Etrangers à nous-mêmes: Identity as Alterity in the Work of Marguerite Duras', in Une et divisible: Plural Identities in Modern France, ed. by B. Lebrun and J. Lovecy (New York: Peter Lang, 2010), pp. 211-223

David McCallam

• L'art de l'équivoque chez Laclos (Geneva: Droz, 2008)
• 'Pique-niquer sur le volcan: une pratique culturelle de Winckelmann à Sade', French Studies, 63:3 (July 2009), 259-270

Penny Simons

• 'A Balkan question: the significance of Durrës in Aimon de Varennes' Florimont', French Studies Bulletin, 32 (2011), 14-17
• 'The significance of rural space in Guillaume de Palerne' forthcoming in Representations of Rural Space in Medieval and Early Modern Times, ed. by Albrecht Classen (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2012)

Audrey Small

• 'Inclusivity and Identity in a West African Audiovisual Archive', International Journal of the Inclusive Museum, 2.3 (2009), 1-6
• 'Roots, rhizomes and l'Africano: traces of Glissant in Tierno Monénembo's Pelourinho, Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 7.3 (2009), 304-316

David Walker

• André Gide, Isabelle, text pp. 913-986 ; 'En Marge d’ « Isabelle »' (supplementary texts & mss extracts), pp. 987-992; Notice, notes & variants, pp. 1447-1463 in André Gide, Romans et récits, Œuvres lyriques et dramatiques, I, sous la direction de Pierre Masson, avec Jean Claude, Alain Goulet, David H. Walker et Jean-Michel Wittman, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade (Paris: Gallimard, 2009)
• Consumer Chronicles: Cultures of Consumption in Modern French Literature (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2011)

Sophie Watt

• 'The Discursive Construction of Minority Identities in Third Republic France: The 1937 Madagascar Plan, Exemplification of Republican Racism', in The European Mind: Narrative and Identity, vol I, part 2 (Malta: Malta University Press, 2010), pp. 236-240
• 'Alexandre Arcady and the re-writing of French Colonial History in Algeria', in France's Lost Empires: Fragmentation, Nostalgia and «la fracture coloniale», ed. by Kate Marsh and Nicola Frith (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011), pp. 69-80

Jan Windebank

• 'Volunteering and the gender division of labour: a Franco-British comparison’, Community, Work and Family, 11 (4), 457-474
• 'State support for domestic services: a comparison of the outsourcing of domestic cleaning in France and Britain’, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, vol. 17 (3), 437-449