French Programme Staff

Head of Department

Coordinator: French Programme

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Senior Lecturers

Research Interests and Recent Publications:

• Francophone African literature:
  • Postcolonial theory
  • Women's writing
  • Autobiography
  • Camara Laye
• The plural conjugation of Nadia in Tahar Ben Jelloun's Les Raisins de la galère, forthcoming, French Cultural Studies, 2010.
• Realising identity: the process and the product: An analysis of Au pays de mes racines by Marie Cardinal. French Cultural Studies (University of Nottingham) 18.3: 293-305, October 2007.
• Realigning Cultural Perspectives: Marie Cardinal and Camara Laye in French Cultural Studies. (University of Hull), 12(1).34: 5-21, February 2001.
• To Paris and back: seeking a balance in Research in African Literatures. (Ohio State University), 31.1: 12-31, Spring 2000.
• Camara Laye's journey: to define the self in Essays in French Literature. (University of Western Australia), 31: 75 - 87, 1994.
• Laye versus Constant: a child's perspective of Africa in AUMLA (Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association), 81: 65 - 79, 1994.

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Research Interests and Recent Publications:

• Beckett, Tournier and Emil Cioran
• 20th century French and francophone literature
• Centenaire lyrique: René Char, Eugène Guillevic. Textes réunis sous la direction de Constantin Grigorut et Elena-Brandusa Steiciuc. Otago French Notes / Cahiers d’études littéraires françaises de l’université d’Otago 1 (2008). ISSN 1178-3834. 227 p.
• Constantin Grigorut. ‘Pratiques intertextuelles dans la littérature française de l’après-guerre.’ La Lettre R, 7-8 (Fall 2008-Winter 2009): 9-18.
• Constantin Grigorut. ‘Apocalyptic Imagery in Michel Tournier’s Le Roi des Aulnes.’ Acta Iassyensia Comparationis 6 (2008): 99-205.
• Constantin Grigorut. ‘Forever Young: On Time and Space in Literature.’ Messages, Sages and Ages. Proceedings, Vol. 3. Editura Universitatii Suceava, 2008: 3-9.
• Constantin Grigorut and Elena-Brandusa Steiciuc. ‘Invisible Sides of Fear in Anne Hébert’s Les Enfants du Sabbat.’ Messages, Sages and Ages. Proceedings, Vol. 3. Editura Universitatii Suceava, 2008: 165-172.
• Constantin Grigorut. ‘Le dialogue des intertextes philosophiques dans les essais de Cioran.’ In Écrivains d’expression française de l’Europe de Sud-Est. Bucharest: Presses Universitaires Spiru Haret, 2009: 102-110.
• Constantin Grigorut. ‘De Fin de partie vers Endgame : quelques observations sur la complexité intertextuelle de la traduction des jeux de mots dans le théâtre de Samuel Beckett. ’ Atelier de Traduction 8 (2007) : 189-199.
• 'Échos métaphysiques dans les syllogismes cioraniens.' in Nouvelles Études Francophones 21/2 (Automne 2006), Notre Dame, Indiana, USA: pp. 181-194.
• 'La dimension universelle du discours dramatique de Samuel Beckett.' Analele Universitatii Stefan Cel Mare. Seria B-Literatura, Tome XIV. Suceava : Stefan cel Mare University Press, 2006: pp. 63-77.
• 'Métamorphoses de la lecture intertextuelle.' Analele Universitatii Stefan Cel Mare. Seria B-Literatura, Tome IX. Suceava : Stefan Cel Mare University Press, 2005: pp. 61-80.
• 'Formes et fonctions du calembour dans "Fin de partie".' The International Symposium Borderless Beckett dedicated to Samuel Beckett Centenary, Tokyo, Waseda University, October, 2006.
• 'The Unbearable Lightness of (Re)reading and its Palimpsestuous Space.' The International Colloquium On Space. Dunedin, NZ, University of Otago, May 2006.
• " 'Intertextualité biblique et métaphysique sartrienne dans le roman "Le Roi des Aulnes" de Michel Tournier' in La Revue de l'Université de Moncton 34/1-2, 2003.
• 'Un mythe voyageur et son ancrage intertextuel' in Etudes francophones XV/1, Spring 2000.
• In New, William H. ed. Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002, contributor: "Ginette Anfousse" (22-23), "Lise Bissonnette" (121-122), "Francine d'Amour" (339-340), "Jean Ethier-Blais" (339-340), "Gérard Étienne" (340-341), "Louis Hamelin" (473-474), "Alexis Klimov" (585-586), "Gérard Leblanc" (643-644), "Laurent Mailhot" (700-701), "Guy Marchand" (710-711), "Yves Meynard" (739-740), "Jean-Jacques Nattiez" (802-803), "Claude Poissant" (887-888), "Daniel Poliquin" (888-889), "Marie-José Thériault" (1104), "Yves Trudel" (1139), "André Vachon" (1159-1160).
• 'Images des Balkans dans la littérature française: le motif du ‘sacrifice de construction’ dans "Le lait de la mort" de Marguerite Yourcenar.' in The Seventeenth Annual International Colloquium on Twentieth-Century French Studies. Philadelphia, PA, March-April 2000.
  

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Lecturers

Research Interests and Recent Publications:

• Les Rougon-Macquart (Zola)
• Zola and the law
• 'Family law in Zola - The Example of The Tutelle', New Zealand Journal of French Studies, 29 (2008), 5-16.
• 'Rural Education in a Selection of Novels by Emile Zola - the pleasure of knowledge and the knowledge of pleasure', Analele Universitatii "Stefan cel Mare" Suceava, XIV, no.1 (2008), 223-236.
• 'Education and Revolution. Zola's Revolutionaries in Les Rougon-Macquart', New Zealand Journal of French Studies, 27 (2006), 5-15.
• 'Les Représentants du système juridique dans Les Rougon-Macquart', forthcoming, Les Cahiers Naturalistes.

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Teaching Fellow

French Honorary Consul

Research Interests and Recent Publications:

History of the Pacific area
New Caledonia

• Aperçu sur la santé des kanak en Nouvelle-Calédonie au début du XXe siècle, in La Nouvelle-Calédonie : Les kanaks et l'histoire, Annales d'histoire calédonienne, Paris, Les Indes Savantes, 2008, pp 195-210.

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Tutorial staff

Departmental Administrator

Administrative Assistants

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Mailing Address

French Programme
Department of Languages and Cultures
P O Box 56
Arts Building Floor 3
95 Albany Street
Dunedin

Email: languages@otago.ac.nz
Fax: (64 3) 479 8689
Enquiries: (64 3) 479 9032