Dr J. Yee
Jennifer Yee, D.E.A., Ph.D. (Paris)
University Lecturer (CUF) in French, Student of Christ Church
Address: Christ Church, St Aldates, Oxford, OX1 1DP
Email: Jennifer.Yee@chch.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 276261
Research
Jennifer Yee's main research interests include nineteenth-century colonial and 'exotic' writing, and the representation of gender and racial difference in the nineteenth century, as well as twentieth-century francophone writing. She is currently working on a book on colonial subtexts in the metropolitan realist novel (with particular emphasis on Balzac, Flaubert, and Zola).
Teaching
French language and literature, especially nineteenth-century literature and francophone/postcolonial literature.
Graduate Teaching
Jennifer teaches for the MSt Special Subjects on Nineteenth-Century Prose and Francophone Literature. She is currently co-supervising a comp lit D Phil on women travellers in the 'Orient', and is willing to consider DPhil supervision on many areas of nineteenth-century literature as well as some contemporary francophone areas.
Publications
‘Mementoes and the Memory of the Reader in L’Éducation sentimentale’, in Dix-Neuf, Journal of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes, 14: 1, April 2010, pp. 1-12
‘The Black Maid and her Mistress in Manet and Zola’, in The Monstrous and The Beautiful: Essays in French Literature, ed. by Amaleena Damlé and Aurélie L’Hostis, Peter Lang, 2010, pp. 167-180
‘French Theory and the Exotic’ in Postcolonial Thought in the French-Speaking World, ed. by Charles Forsdick and David Murphy, Liverpool University Press, 2009, pp. 185-194
Exotic Subversions in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction (Oxford: Legenda, 2008). See book review at: fs.oxfordjournals.org/content/64/4/495.full.pdf+html
'“Le colonisateur chevaleresque”’: Colonial Feminism and the roman à thèse in the Belle Époque', in Women in France: a Belle Époque?, Di Holmes and Carrie Tarr (Berghahn, 2006)
Editor, with Kathryn Robson, France and ‘Indochina’: Cultural Representations (Lanham/New York: Lexington Books, 2005)
'Recycling the “Colonial Harem”? Women in Postcards from French Indochina', French Cultural Studies, 15:1 (February 2004), 5-19, 
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'Batouala, the First “Roman Nègre” and Dialogism: Writing “Difference” or Writing “Differently”', Francophone Postcolonial Studies, 2: 2 (2004), 51-66
'Chateaubriand et l’exotisme subversif des Natchez', Les Cahiers du SIELEC, 1 (2003), 167-182
'Métissage in France: a Post-Modern Fantasy and its Forgotten Precedents', Modern and Contemporary France, 11:4 (November 2003)
'Articles on ‘René’ and ‘Gérard de Nerval’', in Encyclopædia of Romanticism (Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003)
Editor, with Nigel Harkness, Paul Rowe, Tim Unwin, Visions/Revisions: Essays on Nineteenth-Century French Culture (Bern: Peter Lang, 2003)
'À rebours de l’exotisme: la province et le foyer familial vus des colonies', Revue de Littérature Comparée, April-June (2003), 155-168
'L’Orientale, l’être de fuite par excellence, chez Pierre Loti et ses héritiers', in L’Orient des Femmes, ed. M.-E. Palmier-Chatelain and P. Lavagne d’Ortigue (Paris: Presses de l’École Normale Supérieure, 2002), 257-266
Editor, Pierre Mille, Barnavaux aux colonies suivi d’Écrits sur la littérature coloniale, a re-edition with introduction and critical apparatus by Jennifer Yee (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2002)
'Malaria and the Femme Fatale: Sex and Death in French Colonial Africa', Literature and Medicine, Fall (2002), 201-215
'“L’Indochine androgyne”: the Curious Theme of Androgyny in Turn-of-the-century French Writing on “Indochina”', Textual Practice, 15: 2, Summer (2001), pp. 269-282
'The Colonial Outsider: “Malgérie” in Hélène Cixous’ Novel Les rêveries de la femme sauvage', Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, 20: 2, Winter (2001), pp. 189-200
'Trahison et traduction: les relations entre l’homme blanc et la femme exotique dans quelques romans de l’Indochine française', Carnets de l’exotisme, 22 (2000), 159-176
Clichés de la femme exotique: un regard sur la littérature coloniale française entre 1871 et 1914 (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2000)
'Colonial Virility and the Femme fatale: Scenes from the Battle of the Sexes in French Indochina', French Studies, A Quarterly Review, 54: 4, Oct. (2000), pp. 469-478
'La Tahoser de Gautier et la Salammbô de Flaubert: l’Orientale et le voyage au-delà de l’histoire', Australian Journal of French Studies, 36: 2 (1999), 188-199
'Neither Flesh Nor Fowl: “Métissage” in fin-de-siècle French Colonial Fiction', L’Esprit créateur, 37: 1, Spring (1998), pp. 46-56