Anne-Gaelle C. Saliot, Assistant Professor, French Studies

Anne-Gaëlle Saliot's research occupies the boundary between aesthetics and literature. Her work first focused on the relations between texts and images in Surrealist works. Her thesis examined the cultural meanings invested in a death mask of a young woman, thought to have drowned herself in the Seine at the close of the nineteenth century, known as the ‘Inconnue de la Seine’. This mask has fired the imagination of artists for over a hundred years. Such luminaries as Rilke, Nabokov, Aragon, Man Ray, Blanchot, Varda and Resnais expressed their fascination with the Inconnue in prose, poetry, photography and film. Her monograph – An Image and its Undercurrents: L’Inconnue de la Seine – is currently under review for publication at Oxford University Press for the Modern Languages Monograph Series. She has strong interest in philosophical approaches to images, particularly in Benjamin, Blanchot, Deleuze and Rancière. Her newest research deals with French cinema and theories of cinema. In her current project she explores the ways in which 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. She has upcoming projects of publications on music in the novels of Virginia Woolf and on Maurice Blanchot.

Anne-Gaëlle Saliot spent her undergraduate years in Paris at the Lycée Henri IV. She then left the Quartier Latin and crossed the Channel to study Comparative Literature at Oxford University. She was awarded her DPhil from Oxford in 2007. Before coming to Duke, she has taught 20th century French and Francophone literature and comparative literature (and translation) in various places in Europe and the United States (Johns Hopkins University, York University (GB), Oxford University, Nanterre, Versailles).

Contact Info:

Office Location:	219A Languages Building
Office Phone:	919-660-3115
Email Address:

Teaching (Fall 2012):

• FRENCH 490S.01, FRENCH LIT (TOPICS) Synopsis

  Perkins 2-087, MW 11:45 AM-01:00 PM

  (also cross-listed as DANCE 490S.01, VMS 490S.03)

• ROMST 490S.01, TOPICS ROMANCE STUDIES Synopsis

  Perkins 2-065, MW 03:05 PM-04:20 PM

  (also cross-listed as AMI 490S.02, LIT 490S-2.01, VMS 490S.02)

Office Hours:

Tuesdays: 9.30am-11.30am

Education:

DPhil	Oxford University	2007
Maîtrise	La Sorbonne	2002
Mst in European Literature	Oxford University	2001

Specialties:

French
Modern and Contemporary
European Studies
Modernity and Modernism
Film, Media and Visual Studies
Critical Theory, Philosophy
Globalization, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity

Research Interests: French twentieth-century literature and Cinema

Current projects: "An Image and Its Undercurrents: L'Inconnue de la Seine", monograph under editorial review for publication at Oxford University Press for the Modern Languages Monograph Series, Fall 2011, Current project on the French New Wave and nineteenth-century literature and aesthetics

Areas of Interest:

twentieth-century and twenty-first-century French literature and culture
Surrealism
Philosophies of the image (Benjamin, Blanchot, Deleuze, Rancière)
French cinema (the French New Wave) and French Film theory
The relations between literature, music and dance
Testimony, confession and autofiction in literature and film

Duties:

Graduate Committee (Romance) (spring 2011) Course Planning Committee (Romance) (spring 2011) Graduate Affairs Task Force Liaison Committee Library Representative for French

Curriculum Vitae  Bio

Current Ph.D. Students  

• Eliza B. Dandridge  
• Oliver T. Gloag  
• Ryan A. O'Rourke  

Recent Publications

1. A.C. Saliot, Le cri des oiseaux fous et Pays sans chapeau de Dany Laferrière: départ, retour et rabordaille.’, in Écrits d'Haïti, edited by Nadève Ménard (Accepted, 2011), Karthala, 22-24 Boulevard Arago 75013 Paris France
2. S. Liandrat-Guigues, J-L. Leutrat, 'Interlude: Inconnue de la Seine', in Alain Resnais. Liaisons secrètes, accords vagabonds., Cinéma/auteurs (April 5, 2006), pp. 116-119, Cahiers du Cinéma, ISBN 9782866424077