French Graduate Seminar 

Michaelmas Term 2016

Tuesdays, 5-6.30pm, All Souls College (Hovenden Room) 

2^nd Week – 18 October

Audrey Borowski, (Queen’s College, Oxford) 'La Mettrie's radical materialism in L’Homme Machine'

Natasha Ryan (St Anne’s, Oxford), ‘Tableaux rapides: Théodore de Banville as lanternist and reluctant prose poet’

4^th Week – 1 November

Rachel Skokowski (University College, Oxford), ‘Une Imagination Réglée: The Role of Imagined Paintings in Diderot's Salons.’

Jonathan Huff (King’s College, London), ‘Redefining the Composer’s Theatre Voice in A.E.M. Grétry’s Mémoires’

6^th Week – 15 November

James Illingworth (Queen’s University, Belfast), ‘Lifting the Veil: George Sand's Mythopoetic Bodies’

Stacie Allan (University of Bristol), ‘National Histories and Transnational Myths in George Sand's Jeanne’