Cyrielle Faivre

Ph.D

Pronouns: she/elle

Positions

Assistant Professor, French and Francophone Studies

Faculty of Arts, School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures

Contact information

cyrielle.faivre@ucalgary.ca

Phone number

Office: 403-220-5908

Location

Office: CHC314

Background

Educational Background

Ph.D French, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2014

MA French, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009

MA English (LLCE Anglais), Université d'Aix-Marseille, 2007

BA English (LLCE Anglais), Université du Sud, Toulon-Var, 2005

Research

Areas of Research

Prison and penal colony in nineteenth-century literature; interactions between visual art and literature in the Nineteenth Century; contemporary French pop culture; chanson engagée; neurodiversity in French literature

Publications

On the Verge: Pulsions de liberté face à la menace du confinement. Women in French Studies. 157-171. (2024)
Writing in/the Penal Colony: An Analysis of Three Convicts' Memoirs. Romance Notes, vol 60, no. 3. 539-550. (2020)
Du bagne à l'eldorado: réhabilitation de la Guyane dans deux robinsonnades de Louis Boussenard. The French Review, vol. 93, no. 4. 108-121. (2020)
"And now, who am I?": L'identité à l'épreuve d'Alzheimer dans Se souvenir des belles choses de Zabou Breitman. Women in French, vol. 7. 69-81. (2017)
Le monde nébuleux du bagne militaire: l'abolition des frontières dans Biribi de Georges Darien. Littératures, vol. 29. 35-54. (2013)
"Calogero, or Why We Suddenly Want to Take the Elevator"; "Serge Lama: The Nostalgic Poet"; "Marc Lavoine: the Art of Being Two"; "Georges Moustaki: Jack-of-All-Trades, Master of Freedom". Michaël Abecassis and Marcelline Block (editors). An Anthology of French and Francophone Singers from A to Z: 'Singin' in French', Cambridge Scholars Publishing. (2018)

More Information

Chair of the French Division & Undergraduate Program Advisor for French