Modern Languages & Classics

Dr. Joëlle Cauville

Joëlle Cauville is a Professor of French language, culture and literature and the Coordinator of the Study Abroad Angers Program (France). She graduated from La Sorbonne, Paris (Master's Degree in English Elizabethan literature, 1974) and UBC (Masters degree and Ph. D. in French contemporary literature, 1982 and 1988).

Her research deals with the rewriting of ancient myths in modern French literature, in a “mythocritique” and/or feminist perspective. She is also interested in the concept of “World literature” in French, especially when it comes to such a writer as Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature recipient.

Publications:

Books Mythographie hyvrardienne , Presses de l'Université Laval, 1996.
Réécriture des mythes : l'utopie au féminin , Editions Rodopi, in collaboration with Metka Zupancic, 1997.

Latest Articles:

 “L'affaire Villemin : quand la littérature s'empare du fait divers” Nouvelles Etudes Francophones (NEF), Volume 25.2, Automne 2010, 115-127. (Refereed)

“Le Dit d'Aki Shimazaki: Échos intertextuels”. In Dervin, F. (dir.). Le Poids des identities. Mémoire et traumatisme chez Aki Shimazaki . Editions Universitaires Européennes, 2011. (Refereed)

“La Marseillaise, ses variantes et ses parodies : leçon d'humour à la française !”, Glottopol (electronic journal under the Direction of Dr Michael Abecassis,  Language Centre, 12 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HT England).  No 17, January 2011, 61-71. (Refereed)

 

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