Matthis Hervieux (LèsL Rouen, MSc Edin)
Thesis title: Franco-Japanese Intermedial Encounters in Roland Barthes, Michel Butor and Dany Laferrière
PhD Comparative Literature
Year of study: 4
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC)
- Department of European Languages and Cultures (DELC)
Contact details
- Email: s1368267@sms.ed.ac.uk
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Background
I first joined the University of Edinburgh in 2015 as a language assistant in French. I then left in 2016 to take up a role in a market research firm in London. I returned to Edinburgh in 2017 as a student, where I earned a MSc in comparative literature in 2018. I am now pursuing a PhD in comparative literature.
Qualifications
2012 - 2015 - Licence ès Lettres Anglais, Université de Rouen
2017 - 2018 - Master of Science in Comparative Literature, University of Edinburgh
2019 - now - PhD in Comparative Literature, University of Edinburgh
Undergraduate teaching
Since 2020-21
- French 1B literature & civilisation
In 2015-16
- French 1B
- French 2
- French 3 Oral (Hons.)
- Oral for French (Hons.)
- 2nd-year French grammar workshops and exam feedback lecture
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
No
Research summary
- Encounters between Japan and the Francophone world
- Exoticism and Japonisme
- Intermediality
- Translingualism
- Inter- and hyper-textuality
- Literary theory
- Ethical criticism (Emmanuel Levinas)
- Eco-criticism
- French theory
- Écrivains du corail
Affiliated research centres
Research activities
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Uchi-soto book
Research output: Contribution to Seminar › Paper (Accepted/In press) -
Michel Butor’s Sentimental Journeys through Japan: Photography and Writing in Tables d’orientation (1993) and Cent instants japonais (2013)
Research output: › Conference contribution (Accepted/In press) -
Barthes' Bunraku: An intermedial approach to alterity
Research output: › Conference contribution (Accepted/In press)