Bertrand Bourgeois is a Senior Lecturer in French Studies in the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. He completed his jointly awarded doctorate from the Université de Nice (France) and the University of Western Ontario (Canada).
He is a specialist of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century French Literature and Visual Culture. He has published on French authors such as Huysmans, Goncourt, Flaubert or Gautier. His forthcoming monograph Petits poèmes à voir (Paris: Hermann, 2020) deals with the relationship between prose poetry and visual arts from 1848 to 1945. He also has a strong interest in the study of modern transpositions of Madame Bovary, and in the study of how modern or contemporary writers (Perec, Houellebecq) rewrite Nineteenth Century French Literature. More information is available on his academia page: https://unimelb.academia.edu/BertrandBourgeois He is available for supervision of PhD students on any topics linked to his fields of expertise.
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Ego Hugo : « Hauteville House », de la maison-musée au miroir de l’écrivain
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Huysmans and Prose Poetry: The First Critical Annotated Edition
Internal Research Grant
Petits poèmes à voir : de la bambochade textuelle aux pochades en prose (1842-1948)
Book
Ironiser avec Huysmans. L'écriture comique de Houellebecq dans Soumission
Book Chapter
"Fanfare de rouge": fantasmagorie colorée du désir chez Huysmans
Book Chapter
From Emma to Gemma, or how to play with Madame Bovary
Journal article
Enduring Monsters: (Em)bracing a Diachronic Storm of Monstrosities
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Senior Lecturer In French Studies
Languages And Linguistics
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Institute For the Study of French Australian Relations (ISFAR)
Member And Foreign Correspondent
Société Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III)
Doctor
Universite de Nice
Doctor
University of Western Ontario