Oxford French Graduate Seminar

Trinity Term 2017

Tuesdays 5.15 – 6.30 pm

All Souls’ College, Hovenden Room

April 25^th (1^st Week)

Elliot Grogan (Christ Church College)

'"The past should be altered by the present as much as the present directs the past"; Navigating Alexandre Dumas' revolutionary past' 

Matthew Innes (University College)

‘Pierre de Belloy and legal polemic during the French Wars of Religion’

May 9^th (3^rd Week)

Melissa Purkiss (Wolfson College)

'Gaito Gazdanov, a 'Russian Proust'? The question of French influence for Russian émigrés in interwar Paris' 

Sam Bailey (Jesus College)

'Beauty or the Beast? Literary Representations of the Hermaphrodite in Eighteenth-Century France'

May 23^rd (5^th Week)

Sinan John-Richards (Wadham College)

‘“Il n’y a pas de rapport sexuel”: Lacan, Sexuation, and God’

Helen Craske (Merton College)

 ‘Rachilde and the Art of the Book Review’