Staff in the Department of French

Ms Pauline Moret, MA (Sorbonne)

Contact Ms Pauline Moret (email at pauline.moret@durham.ac.uk)

My research topic, entitled « Race, Natural Sciences and Identity in A la recherche du temps perdu », explores the links between Proust's major work and nineteenth-century scientists (especially natural scientists). This will lead me to thoroughly reconsider the polemic and intricate representation of race in A la recherche, as well as the representation of Judaism and homosexuality.

I completed my MA (Maîtrise et Master de Littératures françaises) at the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV). My thesis is supervised by Dr. Marie-Claire Barnet and Prof. Lucille Cairns, and is funded by a Barker Scholarship.

Conference & seminar presentations

• "Proust: Variations sur un imaginaire biologique", paper given at the Proust Postgraduate Study Day, 26th April 2013, Worcester College, Oxford.
• "Proust as a Taxonomist. Race and Natural Sciences in the Proustian Narrative", paper given at the Cambridge French Grad Research Seminars, 29th January 2013, University of Cambridge.
• "Les métamorphoses du visage dans A la recherche du temps perdu", paper given at 'Metamorphosis', Oxford French Postgraduate Conference 2012, 27th-28th January 2012, Maison Française, Oxford.

Research Groups

• Literature/History/Theory
• Culture and Difference

Teaching

• FREN2011 French Literature and Culture in the 19th & 20th Centuries
• FREN2051 French Language 2

Research Interests

• C19th & 20th French Literature and Culture, especially Marcel Proust
• Literary Theory
• Literature and science

Selected Publications

Articles: review

• 2013 'Proust et les idéologies sociales', Acta Fabula 14.

Books: sections

• 2010 '"L'oeuvre de Guillaume de Rubrouck" (postscript)', in Rubrouck, G. (ed.), L'Extraordinaire voyage en Mongolie, Les Editions d'Asie centrale.

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Is supervised by

• Dr Marie-Claire Barnet
• Professor Lucille Cairns