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Dr Françoise Grauby

Licence es Lettres (Aix-en Provence), Maîtrise es Lettres (Aix-en Provence), Doctorat (Montpellier)
Senior Lecturer
Room 750 Brennan MacCallum Building A18

+61 2 9351 6776

The main focus of my research is nineteenth and twentieth century literature. I have worked on popular beliefs and medical discourses on the body in French literature and culture; on “autofiction” and Aids Literature (Hervé Guibert); on the representation of the artist from the nineteenth century to the present; on Comparative Literature in particular on the history of popular genres and Romanticism in Europe. I have published two books : La création mythique à l'époque du Symbolisme (1994), Le corps de l'artiste (2001).
I have recently completed a study on the impact of creative writing classes in France and I am currently working on a project on writing and creativity.
My teaching includes Romanticism, French Popular Culture and Popular Genres and a seminar on the relationships between writers and visual artists in French contemporary fiction and art ('Words, Images and Traces').

Research areas

  • Nineteenth and twentieth century literature
  • Symbolism and Decadence
  • Flaubert, Huysmans
  • Hervé Guibert
  • Michel Houellebecq
  • History of the Body in Arts and Literature
  • Creative Processes and Creative Writing
  • Popular Culture and Popular Genres
  • “Autofiction”

Current projects

  • Creativity and Creative Writing Classes
  • New textualities (blogs, ebooks and on-line publication)
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Selected publications

Books

  • Le Corps de l'artiste, Lyon, PUL, 2001
  • Françoise Grauby, Michelle Royer, Repenser les processus créateurs/Rethinking Creative Processes, Frankfurt, Peter Lang, 2000
  • Recherche: Mode d'emploi: initiation à la méthodologie de recherches pour les étudiants de IV° année et au-delà, French-Australian Research Centre, Sydney, 1996 (with Dr Michelle Royer)
  • La création mythique à l'époque du Symbolisme, Histoire, analyse et interprétations des mythes fondamentaux de la littérature symboliste, Nizet, Paris, 1994

Chapters in books and articles in refereed journals

2011

  • “Innovations et traditions dans quelques manuels pour les ateliers d’écriture”, in “Le Français et la diversité francophone dans l’Asie-Pacifique”, Dialogues et Cultures, edited by Jacqueline Meunier, Béatrice Atherton, Michelle Royer, Françoise Grauby, nº 56, Gerflint, pp. 28-33.
  • “L’impact des représentations du français sur la motivation: étude comparative entre le Japon et l’Australie”, in “Le Français et la diversité francophone dans l’Asie-Pacifique”, Dialogues et Cultures, edited by Jacqueline Meunier, Béatrice Atherton, Michelle Royer, Françoise Grauby, nº 56, Gerflint, pp. 14-16.
  • “Le roman de la création: l’interview de l’écrivain sur les processus créateurs”, in “Writers at work/Ecrivains au travail”, edited by Françoise Grauby, Australian Journal of French Studies, 47: 3, pp. 298-311.

2010

  • “Ecrire ensemble? Théories et implications des ateliers d’écriture en France”, Australian Journal of French Studies, 47: 3 pp. 238-252.
  • “Art, Or, Aura: l’atelier de l’artiste dans L’Homme au chapeau rouge (Guibert) et Histoire du tableau (Fleutiaux)”, Romance Studies, pp. 118-129.
  • “Comment j’ai appris la littérature: Morceaux choisis d’une éducation”. Explorations and Encounters in French, edited by Jean Fornasiero and Colette Mowra-Hopkins, The University of Adelaide Press, pp. 77-97.
  • “A Transcultural Becoming: The Cultural Immigrants in Paris”. Literature and Aesthetics, 20: 1, pp. 69-80.

2009

  • “In the noir: the blind detective in Brigitte Aubert’s Death in the Woods”, Mostly French: French (in) Detective Fiction, Modern French Identities, Bruxelles, Peter Lang, pp. 157-173.
  • “Du pamphlet comme sport de combat: La Littérature sans estomac de Pierre Jourde”, Essays in French Literature and Culture, nº 46, pp. 125-144.
  • “Au cœur de notre corps: récit réaliste et imaginaire du corps dans le discours psycho-corporel français”, French Cultural Studies, 20: 4, pp. 351-367.

2008

  • “La ‘maison de verre’: utopies corporelles et arts de guérir dans Le Protocole Compassionnel d'Hervé Guibert”, Nowhere is Perfect, French and Francophone Utopias/Dystopias, Newark, University of Delaware Press, pp. 211-227.
  • “De ‘Ceci n’est pas un corps’ à ‘Ceci est mon corps’: le body-art de Catherine Millet”, Nottingham French Studies, 47: 1, Spring, pp. 61-74.

Fiction

  • Un cheval piaffe en moi, Paris, Editions Maurice Nadeau, 2004
  • Les Iles, Paris, Maurice Nadeau, 2007
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Areas of teaching and research supervision

Teaching

  • Advanced Language (FRNC1631/1632)
  • Texts and Society (FRNC2614)
  • French Romanticism
  • French Popular Culture
  • Words, Images and Traces in French Contemporary Art and Literature

Supervision

Currently
  • On Flaubert and Modiano; on Mallarmé; on Balzac.
Past candidates
  • On George Sand, on Proust, on Nineteenth Century French Popular Literature on Australia.

Conference activity

  • Member of organising committees for occasional University of Sydney-based conferences
  • Co-convenor “Playtime”, ASFS Conference, University of Sydney, September 2010
  • Co-convenor, International FIPF Conference, University of Sydney, December 2010.

Other professional contributions

  • President of Australian Society for French Studies
  • Editorial Board Member of Carnet Austral (Bulletin of the Australian Society for French Studies) and Australian Journal of French Studies
  • Collaborator on “La Quinzaine littéraire”
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