Textual and Visual Selves: Photography, Film, and Comic Art in French Autobiography

Contributors

263 Contributors agnès calatayud is a lecturer in French in the School of Arts (Department of European Culture and Languages) at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has two research interests: contemporary French cinema and representations of France’s colonial past in contemporary popular culture. She has published in French and in English on Agnès Varda, Dominique Cabrera, and Henri-François Imbert, among others and on various productions such as French colonial songs and postcolonial cinema. Her articles have been featured in Studies in French Cinema, Studies in European Cinema, and Dalhousie French Studies. 264 contributors natalie edwards specializes in twentieth-century women’s writing in French, particularly in autobiography and francophone studies. She has published articles on Hélène Cixous , Simone de Beauvoir, Paule Constant, Ken Bugul, Buchi Emecheta, and Aminata Sow Fall. She is the author of Shifting Subjects: Plural Subjectivity in Francophone Women’s Autobiography (2011) and coeditor (with Christopher Hogarth) of This “Self” Which Is Not One: Women’s Life Writing in French (2010) and Gender and Displacement: “Home” in Contemporary Francophone Women’s Autobiography (2008). johnnie gratton is holder of the 1776 Chair of French at Trinity College, Dublin. He is the author of Expressivism: The Vicissitudes of a Theory in the Writing of Proust and Barthes and coeditor of five books, including The Art of the Project: Projects and Experiments in Modern French Culture and L’Œil écrit: Etudes sur les rapports entre texte et image, 1800–1940. He has published articles on Roland Barthes, André Breton, Sophie Calle, Colette, Michel Foucault, Patrick Modiano, Marcel Proust, and Nathalie Sarraute, among others. amy l. hubbell is associate professor of French at Kansas State University, where she teaches twentieth-century French and francophone literature and is assistant editor of Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Literatures. She is a specialist in Pied-Noir studies and has published articles on their literature and cinema in journals such as Life Writing, Dalhousie French Studies, celaan Review, and the Revue diasporas. Amy has contributed to several volumes on contemporary francophone women’s autobiography and published a French business textbook, A la recherche d’un emploi, in 2010. In 2011 Amy became a lecturer in French at the University of Queensland. 265 contributors erica l. johnson holds a PhD in comparative literature and is an associate professor of English at Wagner College in New York City. She specializes in Caribbean literature and is the author of two books: Caribbean Ghostwriting (forthcoming ) and Home, Maison, Casa: The Politics of Location in Works by Jean Rhys, Marguerite Duras, and Erminia Dell’Oro. She has also published articles on a range of twentieth-century women writers in such journals as Modern Fiction Studies, Journal of Narrative Theory, Biography, Meridians, Journal of Caribbean Literatures, and Texas Studies in Language and Literature. shirley jordan is professor in French at Queen Mary, University of London. She specializes in contemporary French women’s writing and visual culture and has published articles and chapters on Christine Angot, Sophie Calle, Annie Ernaux, Marie Darrieussecq, Virginie Despentes, Amélie Nothomb, Marie NDiaye, and Agnès Varda. Her publications include the monograph Contemporary French Women’s Writing and articles on photography and installation art within autobiographical and autofictional projects. Dr. Jordan is currently completing a monograph titled Private Lives, Public Display: Women and Exposure in Contemporary French Culture. ann miller began her career as a teacher and teacher trainer before moving to an academic post at the University of Leicester in 1997, where she is now a senior lecturer. She teaches French cinema, comic art, textual analysis, and language. She has published widely on film and on bande dessinée, including Reading Bande Dessinée: Critical Approaches to French-Language Comic Strip, and she is joint editor of European Comic Art, 266 contributors published biannually by Liverpool University Press. véronique montémont teaches at the Université Henri Poincaré in Nancy. She has published numerous articles on the poets Jacques Garelli, Lorand Gaspar, and Jacques Roubaud as well as a book on the latter called Jacques Roubaud: L’Amour du nombre. She has also published on the statistical analysis of the markers of identity in autobiographical work and on the relationship between literature and photography. floriane place-verghnes is a lecturer in French at the University of Manchester. She has published two books, Tex Avery: An mgm Legacy, 1942–1955 and Jeux pragmatiques dans...