PD Dr. Aurore Peyroles

Research team member in the project The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe

CV

  • 2020-2024 Postdoc Assistent at the Institute of Romance Studies from the University Regensburg
  • 2016-2020 Postdoc Assistent at the German-French Institute for Social and Historical Studies (IFRA/SHS)
  • 2015-1016 Postdoc Assistent at the Institute for Romance Studies from the Goethe University (Frankfurt am Main)
  • 2009-2013 PhD at University Paris Sorbonne, Centre de recherche en littérature comparée. Title of the doctoral thesis: “Roman et engagement : le laboratoire des années 1930 en France, en Allemagne et aux États-Unis”
  • 2003-2009 Studies French and Comparative Literature at the École Normale Supérieure (Lyon, Frankreich)

Research Interests

  • Literature and Politics
  • Committed Literature (France)
  • 20th Century French Literature (1930's-1950's)
  • Villes et banlieues

Publications

Monograph

Roman et engagement. Le laboratoire des années 1930. Paris: Classiques Garnier 2016

 

Editions

With Frank Estelmann, eds.: Villes en guerre au XIXe siècle. L'urbanité moderne à l'épreuve du conflit. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes 2021

 

Articles (selection)

Lexicon entries

  • Walter Benjamin, in: Nathalie Piégay und Josette Pintueles (eds.): Dictionnaire Aragon. Paris: Honoré Champion 2019, 91
  • Les Communistes, in: Nathalie Piégay und Josette Pintueles (eds.): Dictionnaire Aragon. Paris: Honoré Champion 2019, 198–202

Reviews

Translations (selection)

Lectures

Courses

University Regensburg, Institute of Romance Studies 

  • WiSe 2023: Literature and Testimony 
  • SoSe 2023: Things in Literature
  • WiSe 2022: Witches! Cultural Representations of Women who Cause Fear
  • WiSe 2021: Ringvorlesung Violence, Agression, Conflict
  • WiSe 2020: Prostitutes in the 19th-Century French art
  • SoSe 2020: The Scandal around Les Fleurs du mal

Goethe University, Institute for Romance Literatures and Languages

  • SoSe 2016: The Picnic or Happiness in the Open Air
  • WiSe 2015: Around the Autobiography: Georges Perec's W ou le souvenir d'enfance 
  • WiSe 2015: Barthes' Mythologies

Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Lettres modernes

  • 2009-2012: Different courses at the Institute for French Literature