Catherine Bernard
Professor of British Literature and Contemporary Visual Culture Download CV
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Research
Research themes
- Contemporary English fiction
- Modern and contemporary art
- Modernism
- History of modern aesthetics
- Politics of aesthetic forms
Current Project
Catherine Bernard is currently working towards a monograph focusing on the imaginaries of resistance in contemporary British literature and visual arts. She is also engaged in research on the politics and ethics of materialism in contemporary art and fiction.
Research Supervision:
- 20th / 21st centuries English fiction
- Modern and contemporary British art
- Contemporary visual culture
Bio
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 : Senior Lecturer, Université d’Orléans
- 1995-1999 : Senior Lecturer, Université Paris Diderot
- 1999-present : Professor, Université Paris Diderot (now Université Paris Cité)
Administrative Responsibilities:
- Co-convenor of the “Arts and visual culture” seminar at LARCA, with Éliane de Larminat. Catherine Bernard had previously been the convenor of the “Imaginaires contemporains” research seminar, from 2012 to 2018.
- Editor of Cahiers Charles V, from 1995 to 2005. https://www.persee.fr/collection/cchav
- Co-editor of The European Journal of English Studies, from 2000 to 2004.
- Member of the reading committees of:
- Études britanniques contemporaines : https://journals.openedition.org/ebc/
- Études anglaises, https://www.cairn.info/revue-etudes-anglaises.htm
- Sillages critiques, https://sillagescritiques.revues.org
- The Journal of the Short Story in English, mailto:https://journals.openedition.org/jsse/
- Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American, https://www.atlantisjournal.org/index.php/atlantis
- Catherine Bernard is also a former chair of the French Society of Woolf Studies as well as of the Société d’Études Anglaises Contemporaines : http://www.laseac.fr/
- She is a member of the board of the Department of English and American studies of Université Paris Cité
- She co-chairs the “Cultural Intelligence and Innovation” Master’s program at Université Paris Cité, with Sara Thornton.
Media
Publications
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Dans l'oeil du paradoxe
Articles
Books
- Graham Swift. La parole chronique, Nancy : 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.). Nominé pour le prix de la recherche AFEA/SAES 2019.
Translations and edited volumes
- Flush, traduction, notice et notes, in, Virginia Woolf, Œuvres romanesques. Sous la responsabilité de Jacques Aubert. Paris : Gallimard, coll. La Pléiade, 2012, vol. II, pp. 617-718, pp. 1405-1437.
- Virginia Woolf, Essais choisis, traduction et édition critique originales. Paris : Gallimard, coll. Folio classique, 2015 (533 pp.). Réimpression printemps 2015.
Edited journal issue (recent publication)
- “Ubiquitous Visuality: Towards a Pragmatics of Visual Experience,” The French Journal of Media Studies, 8.1, with Clémence Folléa, 2020. https://journals.openedition.org/inmedia/
Recent articles
- “Empathy, Indiscipline and Employability: A Research Essay on the Bilingual Masters Programme ‘Cultural Intelligence and Innovation’ at Université de Paris,” John Edmondson, Piero Formica, Jay Mitra (eds.), “Empathy, sensibility and graduate employment – Can the humanities help?, ”Industry and Higher Education, n° 34/4, août 2020: 230-246. En collaboration avec Sara Thornton.
- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0950422220920777
- “Out of Bounds: Confronting War Crimes and the Breakdown of Justice with Contemporary Art,” Stamatina Dimakopoulou, Mina Karavanta et Naomi Toth (eds.), “Just Art. Documentary Poetics and Justice,” Synthesis. An Anglophone Journal of Comparative Literary Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, n° 13, 2020: 52-69.
- https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/synthesis/article/view/27561
- “Introduction,” avec Clémence Folléa, “Ubiquitous Visuality: Towards a Pragmatics of Visual Experience,” InMedia. The French Journal of Media Studies, n° 8/1, 2020 https://journals.openedition.org/inmedia/1997
- “Affecting / Re-affecting Vision: the Experiential Politics of Contemporary English Art”, Laure De Nervaux-Gavoty (ed.), “Pouvoirs de l’image, affects et émotions”, TIES. Revue de Litérature. Textes, Images et Sons, n° 5, 2021. http://revueties.org/document/799-affecting-re-affecting-vision-the-experiential-politics-of-contemporary-english-art
- “Vibrant Allegories: Questioning Immunity with Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet (2016-2020),” Sophie Vasset (ed.), “Epidemic Notions,” Études anglaises, n° 75/1, 2022 : 13-29. https://www.cairn.info/revue-etudes-anglaises-2022-1.htm
Recent chapters in edited books
- “Edwardian London: a City in Flux, or, Learning from Syncretism,” in Cloé Pitiot et Nina Stritzler-Levone (eds.), Eileen Gray. Designer and Architect, Bard Graduate Center, New York : Yale University Press, 2020, pp. 99-103. Catalogue de l’exposition du Centre Pompidou en association avec la Bard Graduate Center Gallery, New York, 29 février – 12 juillet 2020.
- “Re-imagining Art’s Body Politic after / with Modernism :Views from the Digital Scene and More,” Alcinde Pinheiro de Sousa, Alda Correia, Angélica Varandas, Maria de Jesus C. Relvas (eds.), English Literature in the World. From Manuscript to Digital, Lisbonne : Húmus / University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, 2020, pp. 197-211.
- « Jacob’s Room: poétique du saccage », Élise Brault-Dreux (dir.), L’air du temps de 1922. Royaume-Uni et États-Unis aux rythmes d’une année, Paris : Sorbonne Université Presses, 2022, pp. 233-246.