Profile

Dr Marie-Chantal Killeen

Qualifications:

BA MA Ottawa, MA Oxf, PhD Brown

Subject:

French

Role:

Rhodes Trust D M Stewart Fellow and Tutor; CUF Lecturer

Where I can usually be found:

4 Fyfield Road, ground floor

Contact number:

01865 274285

Marie-Chantal Killeen came to LMH in 2004 after a three-year lectureship at New College.  Before that she taught at Brown University.  

Research interests:

Dr Killeen's main research interests are in the fields of post-war fiction (including in particular the works of Marguerite Duras) and literary theory. Her book on disembodied voices in French novels, films and theory, titled En souffrance d'un corps: Essais sur la voix désincarnée, is coming out in 2012.

You can also read about Dr Killeen's work on her departmental page. 

Selected publications:

• Essai sur l'indicible. Jabès, Duras, Blanchot, L'imaginaire du texte, Paris: Presses universitaires de Vincennes, 2004
• 'Fiabilité ou fidélité : Le problème de la narration dans Le ravissement de Lol V. Stein', Littérature, no 162, June 2011, pp. 69-82.
• ‘Romain Gary et Pseudo: l'art de la ventriloquie’, Romanic Review, NYC: Columbia University, 2009
• 'Un narrateur sans organes. Esquisse pour une problématisation de la voix-off dans Léolo', Archives canadiennes, Tome XIII, Spring 2006
• 'Pour une lecture girardienne des Bonnes de Genet', French Studies, Spring 2004
• 'Etude de la glose dans Gros-Câlin, ou le devenir-python chez Gary-Ajar', Dalhousie French Studies, Summer 2001

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