Dr Eve Morisi, Lecturer
Contact Information
ecm8@st-andrews.ac.uk
Phone: 01334 463634
Office: Buchanan 313
Research and Teaching
My research and teaching interests focus on nineteenth- and twentieth-century French poetry and prose, with an emphasis on the poetics at play in the literary representations of violence, dominance, and alienation.
In the thesis I completed for both Princeton University and the Sorbonne in 2011, and in the book project that has emerged from it, I attempt to investigate Victor Hugo’s, Charles Baudelaire’s and Albert Camus’s works centered on capital punishment, and more specifically the relationships between poetics, ethics, and politics they expose. To complement this project, I have compiled an exhaustive anthology of Camus’s texts on the death penalty, which includes previously-unpublished documents (Albert Camus contre la peine de mort, Paris, Gallimard, 2011).
Other publications on Corneille, Hugo, E. A. Poe, Baudelaire, Camus, and the OuLiPo have examined issues such as infanticide, abolitionism, female objectification, bloodshed, colonialism, and the resistance to forgetting.
Currently, I teach language and literature at sub-Honours level, as well as two Honours modules that focus on the craft of writing in the face of especially pressing ethical and political matters: « Crime and Punishment from the 19th to the mid-20th Century » and « Writing Algeria in French, 1830-1962. Regards croisés.» I am also organizing an impact project and an international colloquium that set out to celebrate the upcoming centenary of Albert Camus’s birth (1913-2013): http://sites.google.com/site/albertcamusproject/