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.

Mu current research includes 'Disclosing the Body: Autofiction as Body Art in French narratives' and a study of the discourses of alternative and complementary therapies in France in the 21st century (in collaboration with Dr Michelle Royer).

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').

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

• 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)

1994 La création mythique à l'époque du Symbolisme, Histoire, analyse et interprétations des mythes fondamentaux de la littérature symboliste, Nizet, Paris, 1994

1996 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)

2001 Françoise Grauby, Michelle Royer, Repenser les processus créateurs/Rethinking Creative Processes, Frankfurt, Peter Lang

2001 Le Corps de l'artiste, Lyon, PUL, 2001

Book chapters

1997 'Salomé dans les oeuvres de J. K. Huysmans: mythe et société industrielle', Les enjeux de la modernité, Monash Romance Studies 2, pp. 100-108

1999 '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

2001 '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

• 1997 'Faire de la littérature: l'escapade à Fontainebleau dans L'Education Sentimentale de Flaubert', Essays in French Literature, November 1997, nº 34, pp. 37-54
• 1998 'De l'Antithèse à la Métaphore: les femmes de L'Eve Future de Villiers-de-L'Isle-Adam', Littératures, n°38, printemps 1998, pp. 57-75
• 2003 'La vie en noir: le discours célibataire dans Plateforme de Michel Houellebecq (2001)', New Zealand Journal of French Studies. Vol. 24, nº2, November 2003
• 2004 'Un(e) artiste de la faim: Valérie Valère et Le Pavillon des Enfants fous' (1978), Consuming Culture: The Arts of the French Table, Monash Romance Studies, University of Delaware Press
• 2004 'Le parfum de l’homme en noir': Mallarmé et La Dernière Mode”, Australian Journal of French Studies, Vol. XLI, nº1, 2004
• 2006, “Force mentale; Fabio Mentale : Total Khéops au risque de la psychanalyse”, Australian Journal of French Studies, Vol. XLIII, nº1, January-April 2006.
• 2007, “Le spectacle de mon squelette: la leçon d’anatomie d’Hervé Guibert”, Embodying Words and Images, Australian Journal of French Studies, Volume XLIV, Number 2.

• 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)

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

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

• 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)