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Personal profile
Research Interests
I have research interests in contemporary literature and migratory studies, most notably concerning francophone-Chinese writing, art, installations and film. In 2010 I co-organised an international colloquium, Traits chinois, lignes francophones, whose keynote speaker was the Nobel Laureate Gao Xingjian and which has led to an edited volume, containing two authored chapters (Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2012). I have published articles on Ying Chen, François Cheng and Dai Sijie and have co-edited Transnational/Transartistic Journeys, a special issue of the Irish Journal of French Studies (2015). Part of my research is interdisciplinary, combining text and image studies, philosophy and film criticism, applying theories from the Education Sciences to literature, and investigating intermediality. I am currently working on a monograph, Ying Chen’s fiction: An Aesthetics of Non-Belonging, due to be published in 2020 by Legenda, Oxford.
Teaching
As well as language teaching, at undergraduate level I offer the mini-modules 'Francophone Drama' (L1), focusing on Eugene Ionesco, and ‘Les revenantes’ (L2) which studies the social, cultural and ideological manifestations of doubles and revenants in two francophone works. I also teach two Optional Modules: ‘Myth and Biography’ (L2) examines the autofiction produced by Pierre Michon, Patrick Modiano, Annie Ernaux and Michel Tournier; ‘Contemporary Francophone Chinese Fiction’ (L3) explores the themes of migration, identity and minority literature in a range of genres.
At postgraduate level, I convened the MA Languages for 6 years and was regularly involved in teaching on four of its modules. Currently, I am the convenor of the MRes Arts and Humanities and supervise one MRes student (who is researching into Sartrean existentialism and the short stories of Louis Borges). In the past I have supervised Masters dissertations on Annie Ernaux, Jean-Paul Sartre and Samuel Beckett. I have also supervised an MPhil on interwar French literature and PhD theses on Haitian Women's Writing and Multimodality in French Women's Life Narratives.
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Research Output
Art and Motion: Shen Yuan's Transcultural Aesthetics
Silvester, R., 27 Jun 2019, In : Modern Languages Open. 2019, 1, 25 p., 4.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Intermediality and film consciousness in Gao Xingjian’s 'La Silhouette sinon l’ombre'
Silvester, R., 10 Jan 2019, In : Forum for Modern Language Studies. 55, 1, p. 53-74Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Lessons from East and West in François Cheng’s Le Dit de Tianyi
Silvester, R., 01 Aug 2017, In : Australian Journal of French Studies. 54, 2-3, p. 202-217 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Introduction: Transnational / Transartistic Journeys
Silvester, R. & Topping, M., 01 Dec 2015, In : Irish Journal of French Studies. 15, p. 1-5 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
De l'individuel à l'universel: Un enfant a ma porte de YIng Chen.
Silvester, R., 2012, Traits chinois, lignes francophones. Montreal: Presses de l'Université de Montréal, p. 159-175 17 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Activities
Engaging with Cultural and Heritage Organisations
Rosalind Silvester (Participant)11 Sep 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Society for French Studies Conference
Rosalind Silvester (Speaker)01 Jul 2019 → 03 Jul 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
ADEFFI 21st Annual Conference
Rosalind Silvester (Session chair)18 Oct 2019 → 19 Oct 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Chinese Traits, Francophone Lines: The Value of Transcultural Creativity
Rosalind Silvester (Organiser)21 Nov 2019 → 22 Nov 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Ex-Position (Journal)
Rosalind Silvester (Peer reviewer)26 Jun 2019
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Publication peer-review