Anna-Magdalena Elsner, M.A. (Oxon), M.Phil, Ph.D. (Cantab)

Joanna Randall McIver Research Fellow

Address: St Hugh's College, St Margaret's Road, OX2 6LE

Email: anna-magda.elsner@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk

Teaching

19th and 20th century French literature, Marcel Proust, film.

Research

My main research interests lie in twentieth-century French and comparative literature, philosophy, critical theory, psychoanalysis and film. Since September 2010 I am a member of the Equipe Proust at the Institut des textes et manuscrits modernes/ENS Paris (http://www.item.ens.fr/index.php?id=13857). My current research project assesses illness narratives and intersections between medical literature and modernist writing in order to examine the representation of doctor-patient encounters in twentieth-century literature and film.

Publications

‘« Les rivages du deuil » – Proust, Freud, Halbwachs et la Grande Guerre’, C.R.I.N., Special Issue ‘Proust Dialogues critiques’, ed. by Vincent Ferré and Karen Haddad-Wotling, forthcoming in 2011).  

‘Death in Venice – Exploring Ruskinian Themes in Proust’s depiction of Venice’, in Ruskin, Venice and Nineteenth-Century Cultural Travel, ed. by Keith Hanley and Emma Sdegno (Venice: Bricole, Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina, 2010), pp. 271-286. 

‘Uncanny Balbec – Phantoms, Crypts and Nightmares in Les Intermittences du cœur’, in The Beautiful and the Monstrous, ed. by Amaleena Damlé and Aurélie L’Hostis (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010), pp. 79-92.  

‘L’obscénité absolue du projet de comprendre – The Communicability of Traumatic Knowledge in Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah’, in Anamnesia: Public and Private Memory in Modern French Culture, ed. by Peter Collier, Anna M. Elsner, Olga Smith (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009), pp. 41-55.  

‘Trauer’, in Marcel Proust Enzyklopädie: Handbuch zu Leben, Werk, Wirkung und Deutung, ed. by Luzius Keller (München: Hoffmann und Kampe, 2009), pp. 870-872.  

‘Tracing the Presence of an Absence: Mourning and Creation from ‘Les intermittence du cœur to Le Temps retrouvé’, in Le Temps retrouvé eighty years after, ed. by Adam Watt (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009), pp. 279-292.    

Edited Volumes:  

J’accuse: Mourning and the Limit Gesture in French Cinema, ed. by Richard Armstrong and Anna M. Elsner (forthcoming in 2012).  

Anamnesia: Public and Private Memory in Modern French Culture, ed. by Peter Collier, Anna M. Elsner, Olga Smith (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009).   

Book Reviews:  

Bulletin d’informations proustiennes (BIP) n°40, Éditions Rue d’Ulm, forthcoming on Acta Fabula

Marc Augé, Casablanca: Movies and Memory, trans. by Tom Conley (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 2009), Film-Philosophy, 14 (2010), 131-136.

Translation:

Stanley Fish, «De la difficulté d’être interdisciplinaire», Traduction, N°8, LHT, publié le 16 mai 2011 [En ligne],  www.fabula.org/lht/8/8traduction/290-fish