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Dr Elise Hugueny-Leger, Lecturer

Dr Elise Hugueny-LegerContact Details

esmh@st-andrews.ac.uk
Phone: 01334 463652
Office: Buchanan 405

Full research profile

Research and Teaching

My research interests lie in the field of contemporary French literature and culture, with particular emphasis on the theory and practice of autobiography and autofiction, and on innovative ways to ‘inscribe the self’, through literature or thanks to more recent modes of communication. After devoting my PhD thesis and first monograph to the study of the oeuvre of Annie Ernaux (Annie Ernaux, une poétique de la transgression, Peter Lang, 2009), I am now working on the interaction between literature and media in contemporary autobiographical and autofictional texts. As part of my on-going interest in autobiography, I have forged links with the French Association pour l'Autobiographie (APA) and have organised creative writing workshops open to Honours students in French.

I am also very interested in journalistic and intellectual life in France and have published, and given talks, on the journalistic texts of Marguerite Duras and her involvement in the political sphere, and on the place of female intellectuals in France.

I teach on the French language and literature components at sub-honours level, and offer modules entitled 'Writing the Self' (FR3078) and 'Intellectuals in modern France' (FR3080) at Honours level.

PhD Supervision

Morven Fraser

Publications

Hugueny-Leger, ESM 2012, ' En dehors de la fête: Entre présence et absence, pour une approche dialogique de l'identité dans Les Années d'Annie Ernaux ', French Studies .
Hugueny-Leger, ESM 2011, ' Marguerite Duras ou les contradictions d’une intellectuelle aux prises avec l’espace public ', French Cultural Studies , vol 22, no. 4, pp. 321-332.
Hugueny-Leger, ESM & Laugt, ER (eds) 2011, ' Littérature et Architecture ', Etudes Littéraires , vol 42, no. 1.
Hugueny-Leger, ESM 2011, ' Du Dedans au Dehors: Trajectories of the Self in Diaries by Annie Ernaux ', in A Kershaw & M Allison (eds) , ‘Parcours de femmes’ : Twenty Years of Women in French Modern French Identities, Peter Lang, pp. 167-179.
Hugueny-Leger, ESM 2010, ' Ecriture migrante et identités en marge dans deux romans de Marlène Amar: La Femme sans tête et Des Gens infréquentables ', in S Bainbrigge, J Charnley & C Verdier (eds) , Francographies: Identité et altérité dans les espaces francophones européens Peter Lang Publishing.