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Dr Clara Sitbon
Licence (BA), Master (MA) (Lyon 2), PhD (The University of Newcastle)
Senior Lecturer in French Studies
Address
A18 - Brennan MacCallum Building
The University of Sydney
Originally from Corsica, I was educated in Lyon (south of France). After a Bachelors of Arts (majoring in French Language, Literature and Political Science), and a Masters of Teaching French as a Foreign Language, I completed a PhD at the University of Newcastle (Australia).
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- Boris Vian and Vernon Sullivan
- Literary hoaxes, frauds, fakes and forgeries (pseudotranslation, plagiarism, biographical imposture)
- Authorship and its variations (pseudonymy, heteronymy)
- Digital humanities (digital authorship attribution and verification, stylometry)
- Crime Fiction (and more particularly Corsican Crime Fiction)
- Alan Yates, Carter Brown, and the French Legacy of Australian Pulp Fiction
Semester 1, 2025:
- FRNC2200 French and Francophone Literatures 1
Semester 2, 2025:
- FRNC3002 French 6
- FRNC2100 French and Francophone Visual Cultures
Project 1: Corsican Crime Fiction This project examines how Corsican crime fiction innovates through its exploration of power, multilingualism, and island settings, reshaping French crime fiction canons.
Project 2: Archipelagic Approaches to Multilingual Crime Fiction This project examines islands as pivotal sites in multilingual crime fiction, revealing how isolation, resource constraints, and cultural diversity shape narratives across Mediterranean, Central American, and Asian contexts rarely explored in crime fiction scholarship (where the exploration of islands is mainly from an Anglocentric point of view). By merging literary analysis with cultural geography and transnational studies, this research demonstrates how insular settings function as complex narrative agents that reflect distinct cultural realities, ultimately challenging conventional literary paradigms and enriching our understanding of crime, place, and identity.
Project 3: Piecing the Puzzle: Mapping the Literary Works of Carter Brown (Alan Yates)
Thanks to the support of the State Library of NSW through the 2025 Nancy Keesing AM Fellowship, this project aims to investigate and refine the bibliographic catalogue of Carter Brown (one of the many pseudony,s of writer Alan Yates), a prominent figure of the Australian Pulp Movement.
Brown, the most prominent pseudonym of iconic Australian Pulp Fiction writer Alan
Yates.
- Australian Society for French Studies
- InterCriPol (Internationale de Critique Policière)
- Higher Education Academy
Faculty of Arts and Sociel Science Award for Excellence in Teaching (Early Career) - 2018
| Project title | Research student |
|---|---|
| Monstrous bodies monstrous selves: Grotesque poetics as a critical-creative practice in the work of Virginie Despentes Julia Ducournau and Paul B. Preciado | Beau SMITH-DAVIES |
Selected publications
Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel's Serie Noire
(Brill, 2018)
Deception: Spies, Lies and Forgeries
(Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2016)
Publications
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Books
- Sitbon, C. (2019). Boris Vian, faiseur de hoax: Pour une demystification de l'Affaire Vernon Sullivan. Leiden: Brill. [More Information]
- Rolls, A., Sitbon, C., Vuaille-Barcan, M. (2018). Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel's Serie Noire. Leiden: Brill. [More Information]
Edited Books
- Andreo, B., Rolls, A., Sitbon, C., Vuaille-Barcan, M. (2020). Boris Vian, l'adaptateur adapte. Paris: Hermann.
- Crossley, L., Sitbon, C. (2016). Deception: Spies, Lies and Forgeries. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press. [More Information]
Book Chapters
- Sitbon, C. (2020). Boris Vian et Vernon Sullivan, ou la representation iconographique d'une impossible contiguite. In Andreo, Benjamin, Rolls, Alistair, Sitbon, Clara and Vuaille-Barcan, Marie-Laure (Eds.), Boris Vian, l'adaptateur adapte, (pp. 131-148). Paris: Hermann.
- Rolls, A., Sitbon, C., Hamilton, E. (2020). L'Automne a Pekin, ou la transmedialite mise en scene. In Andreo, Benjamin, Rolls, Alistair, Sitbon, Clara and Vuaille-Barcan, Marie-Laure (Eds.), Boris Vian, l'adaptateur adapte, (pp. 91-110). Paris: Hermann.
- Rolls, A., Sitbon, C. (2020). Michel Gondry: vianiste, fetichiste et transadaptateur. In Andreo, Benjamin, Rolls, Alistair, Sitbon, Clara and Vuaille-Barcan, Marie-Laure (Eds.), Boris Vian, l'adaptateur adapte, (pp. 25-41). Paris: Hermann.
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Journals
- Sitbon, C. (2023). Beyond the Island, Paris and the Nation: For a Transnational Corsican Crime Fiction. French Studies Bulletin, 44(167-168), 22-26. [More Information]
- Sitbon, C. (2022). A pulizziesca: genese du roman policier corse. Australian Journal of French Studies, 59(1), 8-19. [More Information]
- Sitbon, C. (2022). A pulizziesca: Genesis of the Corsican detective novel. Australian Journal of French Studies, 59(1), 2019-08-01 00:00:00-19. [More Information]
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2023
- Sitbon, C. (2023). Beyond the Island, Paris and the Nation: For a Transnational Corsican Crime Fiction. French Studies Bulletin, 44(167-168), 22-26. [More Information]
2022
- Sitbon, C. (2022). A pulizziesca: genese du roman policier corse. Australian Journal of French Studies, 59(1), 8-19. [More Information]
- Sitbon, C. (2022). A pulizziesca: Genesis of the Corsican detective novel. Australian Journal of French Studies, 59(1), 2019-08-01 00:00:00-19. [More Information]
- Sitbon, C. (2022). Boris Vian 2.0: humanites numeriques, et traces de pluralite auctoriale. Etudes Litteraires, 51(1), 77-94. [More Information]
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2021
- Rolls, A., Sitbon, C. (2021). The Reflexive Carter Brown, or the Prescience of Last Note for a Lovely. Australian Literary Studies, 36(3). [More Information]
2020
- Sitbon, C. (2020). Boris Vian et Vernon Sullivan, ou la representation iconographique d'une impossible contiguite. In Andreo, Benjamin, Rolls, Alistair, Sitbon, Clara and Vuaille-Barcan, Marie-Laure (Eds.), Boris Vian, l'adaptateur adapte, (pp. 131-148). Paris: Hermann.
- Andreo, B., Rolls, A., Sitbon, C., Vuaille-Barcan, M. (2020). Boris Vian, l'adaptateur adapte. Paris: Hermann.
- Rolls, A., Sitbon, C., Hamilton, E. (2020). L'Automne a Pekin, ou la transmedialite mise en scene. In Andreo, Benjamin, Rolls, Alistair, Sitbon, Clara and Vuaille-Barcan, Marie-Laure (Eds.), Boris Vian, l'adaptateur adapte, (pp. 91-110). Paris: Hermann.
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2019
- Sitbon, C. (2019). Boris Vian, faiseur de hoax: Pour une demystification de l'Affaire Vernon Sullivan. Leiden: Brill. [More Information]
- Sitbon, C. (2019). Questions de culpabilite transmediale - culpabilite decuplee. Intercripol - Revue de critique policiere, n°001(December 2019).
2018
- Rolls, A., Hamilton, E., Sitbon, C. (2018). Auteur is French for Author, too: Translating Other Afterthoughts Inspired by King Vidor's Duel in the Sun into French Literature. In Emma Hamilton, Alistair Rolls (Eds.), Unbridling the Western Film Auteur: Contemporary, Transnational and Intertextual Explorations, (pp. 165-182). Oxford: Peter Lang Publishing. [More Information]
- Sitbon, C. (2018). Fluctuations auctoriales au sein du hoax litteraire. Australian Journal of French Studies, 55(1), 28-39. [More Information]
- Rolls, A., Sitbon, C., Vuaille-Barcan, M. (2018). Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel's Serie Noire. Leiden: Brill. [More Information]
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2016
- Sitbon, C. (2016). Dave Fenner: Two private eyes for the price of one. In Alistair Rolls, Rachel Franks (Eds.), Crime Uncovered: Private Investigator, (pp. 80-91). Bristol: Intellect.
- Crossley, L., Sitbon, C. (2016). Deception: Spies, Lies and Forgeries. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press. [More Information]
- Rolls, A., Sitbon, C., Vuaille-Barcan, M. (2016). Disparitions et reapparitions, mort et renaissance: les traductions fantasques de Marcel Duhamel. Belphegor, 14, 1-4. [More Information]
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2015
- Rolls, A., Sitbon, C., Vuaille-Barcan, M. (2015). Conflicts of Publishing Interests, or a Conflicted Case of Translation? Which Orchids for Miss Blandish? The Australian Journal of Crime Fiction, 1(1), 1-24.
- Sitbon, C., Vuaille-Barcan, M., Rolls, A. (2015). Serializing Sullivan: Vian/Sullivan, the Série noire, and the effet de collection. In Jean Anderson, Carolina Miranda, Barbara Pezzotti (Eds.), Serial Crime Fiction: Dying for More, (pp. 41-51). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
- Sitbon, C. (2015). The Literary Hoax: The Art of Authorial Forgery. In Emma Williams, Iman Sheeha (Eds.), Deception: An Interdisciplinary Exploration, (pp. 55-62). Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press.
2014
- Vuaille-Barcan, M., Sitbon, C., Rolls, A. (2014). Jeux textuels et paratextuels dans J'irai cracher sur vos tombes: Au-delà du canular. Romance Studies, 32(1), 16-26. [More Information]
Selected Grants
2025
- Piecing the Puzzle: Mapping the Literary Works of Carter Brown, Sitbon C, Library Council of NSW/Nancy Keesing Fellowship AM
In the media
Corsica, an Island that refused its own tongue, ABC Nightlife, 18 March 2023
La stylométrie peut-elle dévoiler un auteur dont on ne connait pas le nom?, Moteur de Recherche, Radio Canada, 22 September 2022.