Claire Omhovère Curriculum Vitae
Professional address Home address Professor 1473 rue de Las Sorbes University Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3 34070 Montpellier Department of English Route de Mende Tel. 04 67 75 12 31 34000 Montpellier [email protected]
AREAS OF RESEARCH AND TEACHING SPECIALIZATION
Postcolonial Studies Contemporary Literature in English Canadian literature Literature and the environment Landscape writing Rhetoric and Geography
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Since 2008 Professor, Department of English, Université Paul Valéry (Montpellier, France)
1997-2008 Associate Professor, Department of English, Université de Lorraine (Nancy, France)
EDUCATION Habilitation à diriger les recherches (English) University Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle Ph.D. (English) University of Bourgogne (Dijon, France) M.A. (Honours English) University Lumière (Lyon, France) B.A. English University Lumière (Lyon, France)
SELECTED COURSES TAUGHT Undergraduate and graduate courses in British and American literature, British and American culture. Graduate courses in postcolonial studies and interculturality Postgraduate seminars on postcolonial studies and literary theory.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Books • Essais sur le paysage. Ed. Claire Omhovère. Paris : Michel Houdiard, 2014. • Perceptions et représentations de l’espace dans le monde anglophone. Ed. Claire Omhovère. Nancy : PUN, 2011. • Sensing Space: The Poetics of Geography in Contemporary English-Canadian Writing. Canadian Studies Series. Bruxelles; Bern; Berlin: Editions Peter Lang, 2007. Book chapters • « ‘For there is no easy way to get to Jubilee from anywhere on earth’: Place in Alice Munro’s Dance of the Happy Shades. » The Inside of a Shell : Alice Munro’s Dance of the Happy Shades. Ed. Vanessa Guignery. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. 26-45. • « Quelques reconfigurations urbaines du ‘Wilderness’ dans la fiction canadienne anglophone des années 1990-2000. » Les Cultures du déplacement. Dir. L.S. Fournier, C. Chastagner, C. Bernié-Boissrd, et D. Crozat. Collection Aménagements et Territoires. Aix-en-Provence : PU d’Aix-Marseille, 2014. 79-91. • « Documenting Disappearance: A Century of Canadian Photography, from William McFarlane Notman to Edward Burtynsky and Douglas Coupland ». The Memory of Nature in Aboriginal, Canadian and American Contexts. Ed. Besson, Françoise, Héliane Ventura, and Claire Omhovère. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. 254-272. • « Profils urbains et territoires littéraires au Canada anglophone ». Ville et environnement: regards croisés sur le monde postcolonial. Ed. André Dodeman et Cyril Besson. Paris : Michel Houdiard éditeur, 2014. 17-34. • « Inconclusiveness in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road. » The Famished Road: Ben Okri’s Imaginary Homelands. Ed. Vanessa Guignery. Cambridge Scholars Press : Cambridge, 2013. 59-76. • « The Memory of Landscape: Canadian Explorations on Site ». Re/Membering Place. Dir. Catherine Delmas et André Dodeman. Bern : Peter Lang, 2013. 271-287. • “The Artialisation of Landscape in Jane Urquhart’s The Whirlpool.” Crosstalks: Canadian and Global Imaginaries in Dialogue. Ed. Diana Brydon and Marta Dvorak. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2012. 199-214. Articles • “Pop Culture and the Construction of Ethnicity in Miriam Toews’s A Complicated Kindness and Richard Van Camp’s The Lesser Blessed.” Ranam 46 (2013): 151-162. • « De l’obsession du septentrion : Rudy Wiebe et le cas Albert Johnson ». L’Atelier 3.2 (2011). Accessible en ligne
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS - Full member of Société des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur (SAES) - Member of the Administration Board of the French Association of Canadian Studies (AFEC) - President of the Société d’étude des Pays du Commonwealth (SEPC)
Claire Omhovère is a Professor of English and Commonwealth Literature at University Paul Valéry – Montpellier (France) where she is affiliated to the research group EMMA (Etudes Montpellieraines du Monde Anglophone). She is the current editor of Commonwealth Essays & Studies and the president of the SEPC (Société d’Etude des Pays du Commonwealth). She has published articles in French and Canadian journals and contributed book chapters on the novels of Robert Kroetsch, Rudy Wiebe, Jane Urquhart and Miriam Toews (notably in H. Ventura, and M. Dvorak, eds., Resurgence in Jane Urquhart’s Oeuvre, Peter Lang, 2010; P. Guibert, ed., Reflective Landscapes of the Anglophone Countries, Rodopi, 2011; Diana Brydon and Marta Dvorak, eds. Crosstalks: Canadian and Global Imaginaries in Dialogue. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2012). She is the author of Sensing Space: The Poetics of Geography in Contemporary English-Canadian Fiction (Peter Lang, 2007) and she has edited L’Art du paysage (Michel Houdiard, 2014), which gathers the translations into French and critical presentations of a wide selection of essays on landscape from the English-speaking world.