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Dr Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze, L es L, Maîtrise, Clermont-Ferrand; MA, PhD Dunelm (Durham University)

Senior Lecturer in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures

Telephone: +44 (0) 191 33 43416

Fax: +44 (0) 191 33 43421

Room number: A41, Elvet Riverside I

Contact Dr Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze (email at catherine.dousteyssier@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

My research focuses on three main areas: Nineteenth-Century French literature and culture; the theory of parody and French Cinema. I have published numerous books and articles/chapters on Emile Zola, Naturalist and fin de siècle fiction, and parody. I have examined parody both in its cultural specificity in Nineteenth Century France and, more broadly, as a theoretical object (with particular reference to genre and reception theory). This has allowed me to explore the various ways in which parody raises questions about art, literature and representation.

I am also interested in the relationship between word and image at the end of Nineteenth-Century France, especially in the cross-fertilization between literature and visual and popular culture (pantomime, circus, posters).

My next book project focuses on French film director Claude Chabrol. I also have a strong interest in the French cinema of the 1920s and 1930s (Renoir and Carné) and on contemporary French cinema (Bruno Dumont).

I am the UK representative of the Société des Études Romantiques et dix-neuviémistes (SERD) and Series Editor of Studies in French Literature and Culture for Cambridge Scholars Publishing. I am a member of the advisory board of French film journal Ecrans.

I review for Nineteenth-Century French Studies ; French Studies ; Les Cahiers Naturalistes ; Modern and Contemporary France ; Fabula ; Modern Language Review ; Histara (Histoire de l'art, histoire des représentations et archéologie) and Revue d'Histoire littéraire de la France (RHLF).

I am happy to supervise students in the general fields of Nineteenth-Century French literature and culture and French Cinema.

Research Groups

Literature/History/Theory
Visual and Performance

Research Interests

C19th French Literature and Culture
French Cinema
Theory of Parody/Pastiche: Intertextuality

Selected Publications

Books: authored

2004 Zola et la littérature naturaliste en parodies, Eurédit, 307 pp.

Books: edited

2013 Edmond et Jules de Goncourt, Œuvres complètes, Tome IX. Edmond de Goncourt, Les Frères Zemganno. Champion, Champion.
2012 (co-edited with Vaillant, Alain) L'Art de la mystification, Armand Colin.
2009 (co-edited with Welch, Ed) Naturalisme et excès visuels: pantomime, parodie, image, fête. Mélanges en l'honneur de David Baguley, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 158 pp.
2008 (co-edited with Compère, Daniel) Zola: Réceptions comiques. Le naturalisme parodié par ses contemporains (prose, poésie, théâtre), Eurédit, 276 pp.
2006 (co-edited with Place-Verghnes, Floriane) Poétiques de la parodie et du pastiche de 1850 à nos jours, Peter Lang, 361 pp.
2001 (co-edited with Scott, Paul) (Ab)normalities, Durham Modern Languages Series, 180 pp.

Books: online

2008 (co-edited with Place-Verghnes, Floriane) L’Affiche contemporaine: Discours, supports, stratégies, (special issue of Image & Narrative, peer-reviewed e-journal on visual narratology).
2007 (co-edited with Place-Verghnes, Floriane) L’Affiche fin-de-siècle (special issue of Image & Narrative, peer-reviewed e-journal on visual narratology).

Edited works: journals

2012 (co-authored with Vaillant, Alain) L'Art de la mystification. Romantisme, Revue du dix-neuvième siècle, 156 (2): Armand Colin.

Essays in edited volumes

2012 'Cirque, affiche et littérature: l’américanisation du roman fin de siècle', in Guellec, Laurence, Hache-Bissette, Françoise & Thornton, Sara (eds.), Littérature et Publicité, Editions Gaussen.
2011 'Enfance, errance et subversion fin-de-siècle dans La Marquise de Sade (1887) de Rachilde', in Hervouet-Farrar, Isabelle (ed.), Enfance et errance dans la littérature européenne du XIXe siècle, Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, collection 'Littératures', pp. 245-256
2009 'De Zola à Renoir Nana fait la pantomime', in Dousteyssier-Khoze, Catherine & Welch, Ed (eds.), Naturalisme et excès visuels: pantomime, parodie, image, fête. Mélanges en l'honneur de David Baguley, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 77-88
2009 'Pantomime et cinéma: jeux corporels et génériques dans Drôle de drame de Marcel Carné', in Rykner, Arnaud (ed.), Pantomime et théâtre du corps: transparence et opacité du hors-texte, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, pp. 197-204
2008 'Le(s) Jardin(s) des supplices: du roman au film', in Himy, Laure & Pouloin, Gérard (eds.), Octave Mirbeau: passions et anathèmes, Presses Universitaires de Caen, pp. 185-192
2008 'Notes sur un dispositif fin de siècle: pub, parodie et poésie', in Ortel, Philippe (ed.), Images, Discours, Dispositifs. Penser la représentation II, L'Harmattan, coll. 'Champs visuels', pp. 221-232
2007 'L'Assommoir: From Novel to Drama to Theatrical Parody', in Prasad, Pratima. & McCready, Susan. (eds.), Novel Stages: Drama and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France, University of Delaware Press, pp. 214-234
2006 'Coquelin Cadet: la trajectoire d'un 'monologueur' fin de siècle', in Hirschi, Stéphane, Pillet, Elizabeth & Vaillant, Alain (eds.), L'Art de la parole vive. Paroles chantées et paroles dites à l'époque moderne, Presses universitaires de Valenciennes, pp. 251-263
2006 'De la parodicité l'exemple naturaliste', in Dousteyssier-Khoze, Catherine & Place-Verghnes, Floriane (eds.), Poétiques de la parodie et du pastiche de 1850 à nos jours, Peter Lang, pp. 65-79
2006 'Robida et Nana ou Robida et le 'nanaturalisme'', in Compère, Daniel (ed.), Albert Robida, Les Belles Lettres, pp. 167-175
2003 'Rocambole, le Second Empire et le Paris d'Haussmann', in Baguley, David (ed.), Art and Literature of the Second Empire, Durham Modern Languages Series, pp. 112-128
2001 'Fumisme: le rire jaune du Chat Noir', in Dousteyssier-Khoze, Catherine & Scott, Paul (eds.), (Ab)normalities, Durham Modern Languages Series, pp. 151-161

Journal papers: academic

2012 'La Fille coupée en deux (2007) instabilité générique, théâtralité et « image-cristal » selon Claude Chabrol', Studies in French Cinema pp.
2012 'Mystification et parodie', Romantisme 156, pp. 26-38
2007 'L'Humanité de Bruno Dumont: 'film expérimental' naturaliste?', Excavatio XXII, pp. 207-215
2005 'Naturalisme et pantomime, ou la mimésis en jeu(x)', Les Cahiers naturalistes 79, pp. 227-242
2003 'L'Angoisse de l'influence naturaliste: Tous Quatre de Paul Margueritte et Le Termite de J.-H. Rosny', Nineteenth-Century French studies 31, pp. 123-137
2003 'Trois 'farces' naturalistes: Le vin en bouteilles, Benjamin Rozes et Autour d'un clocher', Recherches interdisciplinaires sur les textes modernes 7, pp. 225-235
2001 'Zola et le(s) Chat(s) Noir(s)', Australian Journal of French Studies 3, pp. 349-364
2000 'Pot-Bouille in caricatures and parodies', Bulletin of the Emile Zola Society 22, pp. 17-23
1999 'L'autoparodie naturaliste', Excavatio XII, pp. 116-120
1999 'Le naturalisme en parodie(s)', Les Cahiers Naturalistes 73, pp. 335-348

Other publications: research

2008 'Thérèse Raquin', The Literary Encyclopedia pp.

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Grants Awarded

2006: Conseil Culturel de l'Ambassade Conference Award
2005: British Academy Conference Award
2005: Conseil Culturel de l'Ambassade Conference Award
2004: AHRC Research Leave Award