Contacts

Welcome to the team behind this year’s University of Cambridge French Graduate Conference.

Maria Flood

• Maria completed a BA in English Literature and French in Trinity College, Dublin, before continuing her graduate  studies at St. John’s College, Cambridge. Her PhD focuses on the ethics and aesthetics of the moving image, considering the cinematic representation of traumatic historical occurrences during and since the Algerian War of Independence. In exploring Algerian and French history, the thesis will examine filmic works by both Algerian and French filmmakers, including Alain Resnais, Jean-Luc Godard, Yamina Bachir and Nadir Moknèche in relation to questions of framing, identification and spectatorship.

Francesca Hardy

• Francesca is currently in the second year of her PhD at the University of Cambridge where she is looking at the relationship between cinema (Agnes Varda and Michael Haneke), recent phenomenological film theory (Jennifer Barker, Laura Marks and Vivian Sobchack) and contemporary continental philosophy (Gilles Deleuze, Jean-Luc Nancy and Roland Barthes).

Philippa Lewis

• Philippa is a second-year PhD student at the University of Cambridge, working on the nineteenth century. She completed her BA in Modern Languages at St John’s College, Oxford in 2008 and after a year working in London moved to Trinity Hall, Cambridge for her MPhil and PhD. Her MPhil dissertation on Baudelaire and Rimbaud sought to situate the relationship between travel and imagination within the context of the nineteenth-century French visual or ‘virtual’ culture du voyage. Certain branches of this research feed into her PhD, which explores articulations of intimacy as a critical concept and relational state across a range of mid nineteenth-century genres, including travel-writing, first-person narrative, and art and literary criticism. She focuses in particular on Baudelaire, Flaubert, and Fromentin, as well as, most recently, Sainte-Beuve. Other research interests include the role of the critic, reception and readership, the visual arts, and mid to late century poetry.

Email: fgrscam@gmail.com