Anne-Gaelle Saliot, Assistant Professor of French Studies and Arts of the Moving Image
Anne-Gaëlle Saliot, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Romance Studies and Core Faculty of the Arts of the Moving Image program. A French native, she was first educated in France at the Lycée Henri IV (Paris) and the Sorbonne, before receiving her DPhil. from Oxford University in the U.K. She then went on to lead an academic career in French Studies in the U.S. She previously taught at the University of York (UK) and the Johns Hopkins University before coming to Duke.
Professor Saliot’s research explores translations and migrations of cultural objects across epochs, and across geographical and linguistic frontiers. Her central concern is the need to investigate the relations between the nineteenth- and twentieth-century modernities and their common cultural imaginary. Her work encompasses literature, theories of the visual, film studies, and dance. She is the author of a book on the famous “Inconnue de la Seine” (The Drowned Muse, Oxford University Press, 2015) and the co-editor of the Cahiers de la NRF dedicated to Philippe Forest. Her second book, Against the Grain. Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette, François Truffaut, and the Nineteenth Century argues that the nineteenth century serves as a sort of political unconscious discernible in most of the central tenets of French New Wave and in the ceaseless productivity of its associated filmmakers. Her most recent research focuses on the perception and reception of Japan in French theory, literature, cinema, and dance from 1945 to present, and on the emergence of “néo-japonismes.” She has publications on Maurice Blanchot (Cahiers de l’Herne), Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, Alain Resnais, Maurice Pialat, Philippe Forest, Dany Laferrière, and contemporary dance.
Her courses cover theories of the image (Benjamin, Warburg, Rancière, Deleuze), nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and visual arts, French New Wave, contemporary French cinema and literature, realisms, relations between dance and literature, and transdisciplinary Franco-Asian dialogue. She has been very involved in graduate teaching and mentoring both within and outside of Romance studies, and is advising students on a wide range of projects.
She is currently serving on the Committee on Information Technology of the Modern Language Association (2018-21), and is the 2019-20 Faculty in Residence for the Duke in France Program (EDUCO). She regularly teaches for the Duke in Paris summer program.
| Office Location: | 219A Language Center, Durham, NC 27708 |
| Office Phone: | (919) 660-3115 |
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| Web Page: | http://ami.duke.edu/~as340 |
- Education:
Ph.D. University of Oxford (United Kingdom) 2008 DPhil Oxford University 2007 Maîtrise La Sorbonne 2002 Mst in European Literature Oxford University 2001
- Specialties:
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Film Studies
Cultural Studies
- Research Interests: French Cinema and French Film Theory
Anne-Gaëlle's recent research deals with French cinema and theories of cinema. In her current project she explores the ways in which the nineteenth-century literature and aesthetics surface in the New Wave cinema. She has given various papers on the cinematic avant-gardes and recently on the French director Robert Bresson.
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- Saliot, AG, Politics and ontology of the image: Godard's debt to blanchot, Sub-Stance, vol. 50 no. 2 (January, 2021), pp. 61-78 [doi] [abs].
- Saliot, AG, Jean-Luc Godard et Maurice Pialat lisant Musset : rêves et restes d’une théâtralité romantique, French Screen Studies, vol. 20 no. 1 (January, 2020), pp. 6-22 [doi] [abs].
- Saliot, A-G, La bibliothèque des cinéastes de la Nouvelle Vague: une forme cinématographique de l’histoire entre mausolée et utopie, in Bibliothèques d’écrivains Lecture et création, histoire et transmission, edited by Mayaux, C; Belin, O; Verdure-Mary, A (July, 2019), pp. 381-398, Rosenberg & Sellier [abs].
- Saliot, AG, La mort de l’enfant, ou la vérité de la littérature : Sarinagara de Philippe Forest, French Cultural Studies, vol. 30 no. 1 (February, 2019), pp. 53-64 [doi] [abs].
- Saliot, A-G, La Beauté du ‘contre-geste’, ou détours par le Japon dans la danse française, in Réceptions de la culture japonaise en France depuis 1945 Paris, Tokyo, Paris : détours par le Japon, edited by Kuwada, K; Arribert-Narce, F; OMeara, L (April, 2016), pp. 166-176, Honoré Champion [abs].