Murail Estelle

Education and Academic Positions

I am currently a Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Culture at the Catholic University of Paris and an associate researcher and teacher at the Université Paris Cité, LARCA (CNRS UMR 8225). I completed a jointly-supervised PhD in Victorian literature at the Université Paris Diderot and King’s College London in 2013. My thesis, entitled  ‘Beyond the Flâneur: Walking, Passage and Crossing in London and Paris in the Nineteenth Century’, examined the figure of the urban stroller in London and Paris. I co-run the Victorian Persistence research group at the Université Paris Diderot. My current research focuses on nineteenth-century, neo-Victorian and postcolonial novels, urban spaces, crossings and networks, docklands, harbours and piers, the story of opium, and the notion of persistence.

Administrative Responsibilities

• Coordinator of the “Victorian Persistence” seminar, LARCA UMR 8225
• Coordinator of the « Environmental Humanities » seminar, LARCA
• Head of department at the Catholic University of Paris
• Head of the Master’s degree (MA) in Anglophone studies at the Catholic University of Paris

• Estelle Murail, Sara Thornton (eds), Dickens and the Virtual City: Urban Perception and the Production of Social Space (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). https://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319350851
• “A body passes by: The flâneur and the senses in nineteenth-century London and Paris,” The Senses and Society, Volume 12, 2017, Issue 2: The Senses and Urban Public Space. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17458927.2017.1310454
  
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• “‘Du croisement de leurs innombrables rapports’: Baudelaire and De Quincey’s flâneurs,” in Klaus Benesch, François Specq (eds), Walking and the Aesthetics of Modernity: Pedestrian Mobility in Literature and the Arts (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
• “‘He crossed and re-crossed the way repeatedly’: illegible crossings in Poe’s ‘The Man of the Crowd.’” Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens, n°83, printemps 2016. http://cve.revues.org/2440
• “The Flâneur’s Scopic Power or the Victorian Dream of Transparency,” Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens, n°77, avril 2013. http://cve.revues.org/252

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