Title: Professor of English literature and visual studies
Research Themes:
- Contemporary English fiction
- Modern and contemporary art
- Modernism
- History of modern aesthetics
- Politics of aesthetic forms
Current Projects:
Catherine Bernard is currently working on the edition of a volume of essays—New Objects of Visibility—deriving from the collective work of the “Imaginaires contemporains” LARCA seminar.
Education and Academic Positions:
- Former student at the École Normale Supérieure of Fontenay-St Cloud (1982-1986)
- 1985: “Agrégation” of English
- 1991 : Ph.D., Université Sorbonne Nouvelle — Paris 3 : La représentation précaire : essai d’analyse trans-artistique appliquée aux œuvres de Graham Swift et de Francis Bacon.
Published in a revised form as Graham Swift. La parole chronique, Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 1991. - 1998 : Habilitation à diriger des recherches, Université Paris X — Nanterre : Dire et lire le présent : aspects de la fiction anglaise contemporaine et de son interprétation.
- 1991-1995 : Lecturer, Université d’Orléans
- 1995-1999 : Lecturer, Université Paris Diderot — Paris 7
- 1999-present : Professor, Université Paris Diderot — Paris 7
Administrative Responsibilities:
- Chair of the Société d’Études Anglaises Contemporaines. http://www.laseac.fr
- Coordinator of the “Imaginaires contemporains” LARCA seminar.
- Co-director of the Masters program: “Cultural intelligence and innovation”. https://formation.univ-paris-diderot.fr/formations/master-etudes-anglophones/specialite-intelligence-et-innovation-culturelles-iic
- Member of the board of the Faculty of English and American studies of Paris Diderot University
- Member of the reading committees of:
Études britanniques contemporaines, https://ebc.revues.org
Études anglaises, https://www.cairn.info/revue-etudes-anglaises.htm
Sillages critiques, https://sillagescritiques.revues.org
Victoriographies: a Journal of Nineteenth-Century Writing, 1790-1914, http://www.euppublishing.com/loi/vic - Catherine Bernard is also a former chair of the French Society of Woolf Studies (“Société d’Études Woolfiennes”, 2004-2008).
Research Supervision:
- 20th / 21st centuries English fiction
- Modern and contemporary British art
- Contemporary visual culture
Selected Publications:books and monographs
- Graham Swift. La parole chronique, Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 1991 (111 pp.).
- Pride and Prejudice de Jane Austen : dans l’œil du paradoxe, Paris : Ellipses, 2000 (128 pp.).
- Mrs Dalloway de Virginia Woolf. , Paris : Gallimard, coll. Foliothèque, 2006 (239 pp.).
- Matière à réflexion. Du corps politique dans la littérature et les arts visuels britanniques contemporains, Paris : Presses de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, coll. Mondes anglophones, 2018 (362 pp.).
Translations and critical editions
- Flush, traduction, notice et notes, in Jacques Aubert (ed.), Virginia Woolf, Œuvres romanesques, Paris : Gallimard, coll. La Pléiade, 2012, vol. II, pp. 617-718, pp. 1405-1437.
- Virginia Woolf, Essais choisis, traduction et édition critique. Paris : Gallimard, coll. Folio classique, 2015 (533 pp.).
Articles (selection of recent publications)
- “Christopher Nolan’s Inception: Spectacular Speculations”, Screen, “The Reflexive Turn : Mediating and Remediating Hollywood », Martine Beugnet et Jane Sillars (eds.), n°58/2, printemps 2017. https://academic.oup.com/screen/article-abstract/58/2/229/3866484/Christopher-Nolan-s-Inception-spectacular?redirectedFrom=fulltext
- « Âmes sensibles s’abstenir : violence à / de l’art contemporain. À propos de Gillian Wearing, Damien Hirst, les frères Chapman & co. », Marc Amfreville, Aloysia Rousseau et Armelle Sabatier (eds.), « Écriture de la violence », Sillages critiques n°22, 2017. https://sillagescritiques.revues.org/4846
- “The Barest of Lives: Looking at War from the Heart of Things in Harry Parker’s Anatomy of a Soldier (2016)”, “Bare Lives”, Jean-Michel Ganteau et Christine Reynier (eds.), Études britanniques contemporaines, n°53, 2017. http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/3932
- “In the Eye of War: Confronting the First World War in Contemporary British Fiction”, article sur invitation, Luisa Flora (ed.), Op.Cit. A Journal of Anglo-American Studies, université de Lisbonne, 2nd series/6, 2017.
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- “In the Turbine of Experimentation: Tate Modern and the New (?) Rationale of Collective Performance,” Anne-Laure Fortin-Tournès, Hélène Lecossois, Brigitte Félix (eds.), “Experimental Art”, Angles. French Perspectices on Experimental Art, mars 2018. http://angles.saesfrance.org/index.php?id=1332
