VANFASSE Nathalie

Professor

Professor

Responsable du Master ACMA
Référente professionnalisation
Co-responsable du thème “Littérature et économie”

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Research

  • Poetics, society and historicism.
  • Cultural approaches of Victorian literature.
  • Social, literary and artistic conventions and deviance in Victorian literature.
  • Nineteenth-century travel writing.
  • Reception of Dickens in France.

Siècles d’étude

  • Nineteenth century; Victorian period

Formation initiale

  • Graduated from the Paris École Normale Supérieure (rue d’Ulm).
  • Graduated from the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences-Po Paris).
  • Agrégation (highest competitive examination for graduate teachers). Ranked second in the exam nationwide.

Carrière

  • 2013 (January-July): Visiting Scholar at the Department of English and Affiliated Scholar at the Center for British Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
  • 2010-present: Professor of Literature in the English Department of Aix-Marseille Université.
  • 2009-2010: Associate Professor of Literature (Maître de Conférences HDR) in the English Department of the Université de Provence.
  • 2002-2009: Assistant Professor of Literature (Maître de Conférences) in the English Department of the Université de Provence.
  • 2001-2002: Lecturer in Victorian literature and Visiting Research Fellow in the Humanities Research Centre of Oxford Brookes University. Awarded Accreditation as a Teacher in Higher Education by Oxford Brookes University.
  • 1998-2001: Teaching Fellow in the English Department of the University of Paris IV Sorbonne (France).
  • 1996-1998: Teaching and Research Assistant in the Department of Romance Languages at Harvard University. Awarded two Harvard University Certificates of Distinction in Teaching Undergraduates in 1996-97 and 1997-98.

L’Appel du sud

Nathalie Vanfasse (dir) L’Appel du sud. Ecritures et représentations de terres méridionales et australes dans la littérature de voyage anglophone.…