Dr Sylvie A Gambaudo
University of Durham
Department of Philosophy

Last updated 12 December 2012

   General information 

I have been a member of the Philosophy department since 2003. I was awarded my PhD at Durham in 2004 on ‘Subjectivity in the Work of Julia Kristeva : The crisis of Identity in Contemporary Society’. My interest in Kristeva’s work on subjectivity is still strong but I have also since turned my attention to issues of gender, madness and narrative. I am currently focusing on the work of New Zealand writer Janet Frame, in particular her use of citation and melancholia in narratives of self.  In 2010 I founded the Gender and Sexuality Research Network at Durham and I coordinated its activities until the end of 2011 when the Network gained Research Centre status. Since October 2011, I have been the deputy Director of the Research Centre for Sex, Gender and Sexualities (CSGS).

I am an enthusiastic horse owner and enjoy most things equestrian. I am also a keen student of stained glass window making, Tai Chi, and Bowen and Emmett techniques.

 

Research

Work in progress

Ø  Essays under review:

 

Funding

Ø  Research in Gender, Sex and Sexualities

Following a successful first year of the Gender and Sexuality Research Network, Professor Jo Phoenix (SASS) and I launched the Research Centre for Sex, Gender and Sexualities (CSGS). For the occasion, we were delighted to have the visit of Professor Kathryn Bond-Stockton, from the University of Utah. The event, held over one week first in London and then Durham was attended by over 400 people from various backgrounds: academics, students, health professionals, charities, etc. The Centre has received internal financial support from the Faculty of Arts & Humanities and the Faculty of Social Sciences.

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Publications

Ø  Books (authored)

§  (2007) Kristeva, Psychoanalysis and Culture: Subjectivity in Crisis, London : Ashgate Publishers.

Reviews:

Darren Jorgensen in Bible and Critical Theory 4: 3 (2008);

Alison Ainley in Hypatia 24: 1 (Winter 2009).

Ø  Chapters in books

§  (forthcoming) ‘Intimacy in Janet Frame’s Autobiographical Work’ in Cooke, Jennifer Scenes of Intimacy: Reading, Writing and Theorising Contemporary Literature, Bloomsbury Academic.

§   (2000) ‘An Introduction to Julia Kristeva’ in Twomey L (ed) Women in Contemporary Culture: Roles and Identities in France and Spain, Bristol: Intellect.

§  (1999) ‘Europeans: Foreigners in Their Own Land’ in Fendler S and Wittlinger R (edd) The Idea of Europe in Literature, London: MacMillan.

Ø  Articles in academic journals

§  (Forthcoming) “Citation of Maternal Narratives: A Butlerian reading of Janet Frame’s Autobiography”, in Life Writing

§   (Forthcoming) “Julia Kristeva, ‘woman’s primary homosexuality’ and Homophobia” in European Journal of Women’s Studies.

§  (September 2012) ‘From Scopophilic Pleasure to the Jouissance of the Madonna: The Mother’s Maternal Gaze in Three Photographic Examples' in Women's Studies, An Interdisciplinary Journal,  Vol 41, Issue 7, pp 781-804.

§  (Spring 2012) ‘Melancholia in Janet Frame’s Faces in the Water’, in Journal of Literature and Medicine, vol 30 nr 1.

§   (August 2011) ‘We Need to Talk About Eva: The Demise of the Phallic Mother in We Need to Talk About Kevin’ in Janus Head.

§   (February 2007) ‘French Feminism Vs Anglo-American Feminism: A Reconstruction’ in European Journal of Women’s Studies, Vol 14, No2.

§  (2000) ‘Absence and Revolt: The Recent Work of Julia Kristeva’ in Theory, Culture and Society, Vol 17, Nr 2, Apr 2000.

Ø  Book reviews

§  (forthcoming) Review: Bazin, Claire (2012) Janet Frame, in MLR (English and Amrican Literature), Northcote House Publishers.

§  (2009) Review essay ‘Elizabeth Badinter’s Dead End Feminism’ in Feminism and Psychology; Vol 19, No 1; Feb 2009; London: Sage.

§   (2009) Review of ‘Jane M Ussher: Managing the Monstrous Feminine: Regulating the Reproductive Body’ in Feminism and Psychology; Vol 19, No 3; Aug 2009; London: Sage.

§  (2005) Review: Dufresne Todd (2003) Killing Freud in Philosophical Writing, Aug 2005; Department of Philosophy, University of Durham.

 

·         Research Groups

Deputy Director of the Research Centre for Gender, Sex and Sexualities

Affiliate of the  Centre for Medical Humanities

Member of the Applied Phenomenology research group

 

·         Research Centre in Gender, Sex & Sexuality

The Research Centre for Sex, Gender and Sexualities (CSGS) is an inter-disciplinary forum where academics and post-graduates from different departments and faculties can discuss their research on gender and sexuality.

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·         Post-graduate research

I would especially welcome enquiries from students wishing to pursue research in:

Ø  Gender, theories of sexual difference, narcissism

 

Ø  Narratives of madness, melancholia

 

Ø  Subjectivity in the work of Julia Kristeva:

o   marginal experience,

o   abjection

o   early development

o   primary narcissism

 

Ø  The work of writer Janet Frame

 

Ø  Queer Theory, the work of Judith Butler

 

Teaching - Undergraduate Courses

·         Year two

Ø  Theory, Literature, and Society, logon to DUO

Ø  Summer Reading

·         Year three

Ø  Gender, Film and Society, logon to DUO

Ø  Summer Reading

 

Teaching - Postgraduate Courses

·         MA in Philosophy

Ø  Gender Theory and Feminist Philosophy (logon to DUO)

Ø  Research Methods (logon to DUO)

 

Administration

Deputy Director of the Research Centre for Gender, Sex and Sexualities

Erasmus coordinator

Library Representative, departmental Library

Harassment Officer

 

 

 

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