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Dr Françoise Grauby

Licence es Lettres (Aix-en Provence), Maîtrise es Lettres (Aix-en Provence), Doctorat (Montpellier)
Senior Lecturer
Room 750 Brennan MacCallum Building A18

+61 2 9351 6776

The main focus of my research is the nineteenth century literature and the analysis of popular beliefs and medical discourses on the body in French literature and culture. I have published two books : La création mythique à l'époque du Symbolisme (1994), Le corps de l'artiste (2001).

In 1998 and 1999, I co-organised two international conferences, one at Cerisy-la-Salle on Huysmans ('Huysmans, à côté et au-delà'), the other in Sydney "Rethinking Creative Processes" (with Dr Michelle Royer). This conference resulted in the Australian tour of the French writer Philippe Djian (Betty Blue) in February 1999.

I have recently completed a study on ‘Autofiction as Body-Art in French narratives’ and I am currently working on a project about the theory and implications of creative writing classes in France and another project on writing and creativity.

My teaching includes Romanticism, French popular culture and a seminar on the relationships between writers and visual artists in French contemporary fiction and art ('Words, Images and Traces').

Research areas

  • Nineteenth century literature
  • Symbolism and decadence
  • Flaubert, Huysmans
  • History of the body in arts and literature
  • Creative processes and creative writing
  • Popular culture

Current projects

  • Disclosing the Body: Autofiction as Body-Art in French narratives (20th century - 21st century)
  • The Language of the Body: a study of the discourses of alternative and complementary therapies in France in the 21st century (in collaboration with Dr Michelle Royer)
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Selected publications

Books

  • Le Corps de l'artiste, Lyon, PUL, 2001
  • Françoise Grauby, Michelle Royer, Repenser les processus créateurs/Rethinking Creative Processes, Frankfurt, Peter Lang
  • Recherche: Mode d'emploi: initiation à la méthodologie de recherches pour les étudiants de IV° année et au-delà, French-Australian Research Centre, Sydney, 1996. (with Dr Michelle Royer)
  • La création mythique à l'époque du Symbolisme, Histoire, analyse et interprétations des mythes fondamentaux de la littérature symboliste, Nizet, Paris, 1994

Book chapters

  • “La ‘maison de verre’: utopies corporelles et arts de guérir dans Le Protocole Compassionnel d'Hervé Guibert”, Nowhere is Perfect, French and Francophone Utopias/Dystopias, Newark: University of Delaware Press, pp. 211-227, 2008
  • “Un(e) artiste de la faim: Valérie Valère et Le Pavillon des Enfants fous (1978)”, Consuming Culture: The Arts of the French Table, Newark: University of Delaware Press, pp. 99-107, 2004.
  • 'La Faim, la femme, l'infini : variations sur un manuscrit inachevé', Huysmans, à côté et au-delà, Actes du colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle, Leuven, Peeters, Vrin, pp. 279-299, 2001.
  • 'La Ville en deuil: le siège de Paris dans le Journal des Goncourt', Images of the City in Nineteenth-Century France, Boombana Publications, pp. 23-33, 1999.
  • Françoise Grauby, 'Salomé dans les oeuvres de J. K. Huysmans: mythe et société industrielle', Les enjeux de la modernité, Monash Romance Studies 2, pp. 100-108, 1997.

Articles

  • Françoise Grauby, “De ‘Ceci n’est pas un corps’ à ‘Ceci est mon corps’: le body-art de Catherine Millet”, Nottingham French Studies, vol. 47, Nº1, Spring, pp. 61-74, 2008.
  • Françoise Grauby, “Le spectacle de mon squelette: la leçon d’anatomie d’Hervé Guibert”, Embodying Words and Images (contributing ed.), Australian Journal of French Studies, Volume XLIV, Number 2, pp. 116-131, 2007.
  • Françoise Grauby, “Force mentale; Fabio Mentale: Total Khéops au risque de la psychanalyse”, Australian Journal of French Studies, Vol. XLIII, nº1, January-April 2006, pp. 33-47, 2006.
  • Françoise Grauby, “Le parfum de l’homme en noir’: Mallarmé et La Dernière Mode”, Australian Journal of French Studies, Vol. XLI, nº1, pp. 102-119, 2004
  • Françoise Grauby, "La vie en noir : le discours célibataire dans Plateforme de Michel Houellebecq (2001)", New Zealand Journal of French Studies, Vol. 24, n°2, November, pp. 29-42, 2003
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Areas of teaching and research supervision

Teaching

  • Advanced language 1301-1302
  • Texts and society
  • French romanticism
  • French popular culture
  • Words, images and traces in French contemporary art and literature (Honours and postgraduate seminar)

Supervision

Currently
  • On Proust, on Nineteenth century French popular literature on Australia
Past candidates
  • On Beckett, on Bernanos, on Flaubert, on Baudelaire, on George Sand

Conference activity

  • Member of organising committees for occasional University of Sydney-based conferences
  • Co-organiser of "Rethinking Creative Processes", the University of Sydney, February 1999
  • Co-organiser of "Huysmans, à côté et au-delà", Cerisy-la-Salle, July 1998

Other professional contributions

  • Editorial Board Member of Carnet Austral (Bulletin of the Australian Society for French Studies)
  • Collaborator of La Quinzaine littéraire and author of two novels (Un cheval piaffe en moi, Editions Maurice Nadeau, 2004; Les Iles, Maurice Nadeau, 2007)
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