Delphine Louis-Dimitrov
Associate Professor in American Literature at the Catholic University of Paris
Research | Bio | Medias | Publications | Articles
Research
Research themes
- Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American literature
- Literature and History
- Political Imagination
- American Medievalism
- Slavery in Fiction and Slave Narratives
Current Project
The reinterpretation of the figure of Joan of Arc in American literature, around questions of political imagination, gender and spirituality.
Bio
Education and Academic Positions:
- 1999-2005: Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
- 2000-2001: French Lectrice, Oxford University (Lady Margaret Hall; Saint-Anne’s College).
- 2002: Agrégation d’anglais
- 2002-2003: Visiting Lecturer, Duke University (Durham, North Carolina).
- 2005-2008: Assistant Lecturer (AMN), University Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle
- 2008-2011: Assistant Lecturer (ATER), University Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle (2008-2009) and University Paris Est – Créteil (2009-2011)
- 2009: PhD, University Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle. Dissertation title: « Mark Twain’s Historical Imagination: the Haunting Trace »
- 2011-present: Associate Professor in American Literature, Catholic University of Paris (Research team EA 7403)
Media
Publications
Articles
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Ethan Frome et la Nouvelle-Angleterre : écriture du lieu commun”, L’Atelier Vol. 12, No 2 (2020) : “Lieux communs – 1”
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« Nature in Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. Pastoralism revisited. », Mark Twain Annual, Vol. 17, 2019. 88-111.
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« The Democratic Reconfiguration of History in Mark Twain’s Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc », American Literary Realism 1870-1910, Vol. 51, n.2 Winter 2019. 162-179.
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« Reading as Emancipation in Harriet Ann Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) », in Women’s Life Writing and the Practice of Reading. She Reads to Write Herself, ed. V. Baisnée Keay, C. Bigot, N. Alexoae-Zagni, C. Bazin. London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 169-188.
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« Washington Irving (The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.) : le Moyen Âge aux origines », Perspectives Médiévales 37, 2016.
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« “The Dreadful Pluribus-Unum Mumps”: America’s Political Diseases in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn », RFEA 137, 2013. Paris: Belin, 2013. 51-64.