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MA Novi Sad, PhD Lille-III
Lecturer (French Studies)
Arts Building, Room 2.46
Ph: (+61 8) 6488 2172
Fax: (+61 8) 6488 1182
Email: vkapor@arts.uwa.edu.au
Qualifications
- June 2004 PhD in French and Comparative Literature awarded by Lille-III University, France
- October 2001 MA in French Literature, awarded by the Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Novi Sad, Serbia-Montenegro.
- October 1999 BA (Hons) in French Language and Literature, awarded by the Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Novi Sad, Serbia-Montenegro.
Professional experience
- January 2009 – Lecturer in French at the UWA
- February 2007 – December 2008 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne, Australia.
- September 2006 – January 2007 Visiting Lecturer, Department of French Studies and Modern Languages, University of Cyprus, Nicosia.
- September 2002 – August 2004 Lector (Language assistant) for Serbo-Croatian at the University of Lille III, "Charles-de-Gaulle" and convener for this foreign language elective.
Research Publications
I) Book
Local Colour – A Travelling Concept, Oxford: Peter Lang, Collection “Romanticism and After in France”, Vol. 13, 2009 Pour une poétique de l'écriture exotique. Stratégies scripturales dans les lettres françaises aux alentours de 1850, Paris: L'Harmattan, 2007
II) Chapters in books
"Les Épopées intertextuelles de Leconte de Lisle", in Déclin et confins de l’épopée au XIXe siècle, ed. by Saulo Neiva, Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2008, 275–87
"Une intimité abritée – sur le jardin providentialiste de Bernardin de Saint-Pierre", in Jardins et intimité dans la littérature européenne (1750-1920), ed. by S. Bernard-Griffiths, F. Le Borgne and D. Madelénat, Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2008, 91–99
"La Carthage de Flaubert ou le livre sur rien" in the proceedings of the Symposium International d`Imagologie, 26–28 avril 2004, Mugla – Turquie, Mugla: Universitesi Yayinlari, 2006, I: 425–35
"Écriture migrante comme une écriture double; le cas de Negovan Rajic", in Littérature, immigration et imaginaire au Québec et en Amérique du Nord, ed. by Daniel Chartier, Paris: L’Harmattan, Collection « Études transnationales, francophones et comparées », 2006, 175–88
"La littérature québécoise – une littérature exotique?", in Focus on Canada. European Perspectives/Regard vers le Canada. Perspectives européennes, ed. and with an introduction by Elke Nowak, Canadian Studies in Europe, Volume 3, Brno: The European Network for Canadian Studies/Masaryk University, 2003, 145–60
III) Refereed Journal Articles
“Couleur locale – a Pictorial Term gone Astray?”, Word and Image, 25.1 (2009), 22–32
“Shifting Edenic Codes - On Two Exotic Visions of the Golden Age in the Late Eighteenth Century”, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 41.2 (2008), 217–30
“Local Colour Revisited – an Essay in Conceptual Genealogy”,Postcolonial Studies, 11.1 (2008), 39–61
"La Catachrèse interculturelle", Poétique, n°148 (Novembre 2006), 497–505
"La Chartreuse de Parme ou la couleur locale reconsidérée", Studi francesi, 49 (2005), 561–67
"La couleur anti-locale d’Eugène Fromentin", Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 34.1–2 (Fall-Winter 2005–2006), 63–74
IV) Other Publications – Selected Translations
Books
Places We Love; An Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Poetry, ed. by Gojko Božović, Belgrade: Serbian PEN Centre, 2006 [English translation of selected poetry, in collaboration with Alison Kapor]
Golden Beam; Review for Literature, Art, Culture and Opinion (published monthly in Novi Sad, Serbia-Montenegro); special English edition [translation of selected fiction, poetry, essays and reviews into English, in collaboration with Alison Kapor], V, n° 43 (May 2005), 78 p.
Svestrani Glen Guld [Glenn Gould Pluriel, ed. by Ghyslaine Guertin, translation into Serbian], Novi Sad – Sremski Karlovci: Izdavačka knjižarnica Zorana Stojanovića, 2005, 290p.
Pjer Burdje, Pravila umetnosti [Pierre Bourdieu, Les Regles de l'art, translation into Serbian of the first part of the book], Novi Sad: Svetovi, 2003, pp. 7–202
Žerar Ženet, Figure 5 [Gérard Genette, Figures V, translation into Serbian], Novi Sad: Svetovi, 2002
Antoan Kompanjon, Demon Teorije [Antoine Compagnon, Le Démon de la théorie – 5th. and 6th. chapter "style", "histoire" – translation into Serbian, with Milica Kozić and Branko Rakić], Novi Sad: Svetovi, 2001
Žan-Mari Šefer, Zašto Fikcija? [Jean-Marie Shaeffer, Pourquoi la fiction?, translation into Serbian; except the 2nd chapter, translated by Branko Rakić], Novi Sad: Svetovi, 2001
Articles and book excerpts
Igor Marojević “Hugo Boss” (excerpt from the novel Sewing Pattern) [English translation in collaboration with Alison Kapor], in Zlatna Greda, VII, no. 70 (August 2007), 39–40
Pjer Bajar, "Kako govoriti o nepročitanim knjigama?", [Pierre Bayard, Comment parler des livres que l'on n'a pas lus? – excerpt from the Introduction translated into Serbian], in Zlatna Greda, VII, no. 68/69 (June/July 2007), 4-5
Cvetan Todorov, "Pravda i sećanje", [Tzvetan Todorov, "Mémoire et justice", from Dévoirs et délices. Une vie de passeur. Entretiens avec Catherine Portevin, translation into Serbian] in Zlatna Greda, IV, no. 36 (2004), 32–38
Žan-Mark Mura, "Šta je egzotizam?" [Jean-Marc Moura, «Qu'est-ce que l'exotisme?», excerpt from La Littérature des lointains, Honore Champion, Paris, 1998, translated into Serbian], in Krajina, III, no. 8 (Autumn 2003), 29–43
Čarls Forsdik, "Putujući koncepti: Postkolonijalni pristupi egzotizmu" [Charles Forsdick, "Travelling Concepts: Postcolonial Approaches to Exoticism", Paragraph – A Journal of Modern Critical Theory. Edinburgh, University Press – vol. 24, n. 3, Nov. 2001, 12–29, translation into Serbian], Krajina, III, no. 8 (Autumn 2003), 44–60
Rože Selesten, "Egzotizam i predstavljanje" ["Exoticism and representation", an excerpt from From Cannibals to Radicals, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996, translated into Serbian], Krajina, III, no. 8 (Autumn 2003), 23–28
Mišel Fuko, "Šta je prosvetiteljstvo?" [Michel Foucault, “Qu'est-ce que les Lumières?", translated into Serbian], in Imanuel Kant, Mišel Fuko, Jirgen Habermans, O Prosvećenosti, Novi Sad: Kulturno-prosvetna zajednica Vojvodine, Društvo za proučavanje XVIII veka, 2002, 19–32
Patročinija Švajkart, "Čitati nas same: Prilog feminističkoj teoriji čitanja",
[Patrocinio Schweikart, "Reading ourselves", translated into Serbian] Pro Femina (Belgrade), VII, no. 25–26 (Spring-Summer 2001), 167–76
Papers presented at international conferences
- “Local colour between exoticism and regionalism”, 34th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, 16–18 October 2008.
- “La Vogue des archéofictions au XIXe siècle: le passé ressuscité et le passé interprétée” Borders and Crossings, University of Melbourne, 15–18 July 2008.
- “Archeofictions – a Hybrid Nineteenth-century Genre”, Genres Mineurs, Australian Society for French Studies, 16th Annual Conference, University of Melbourne, 14–16 July 2008.
- “Payback time – Discourse on Exoticism in Contemporary French Criticism”, La France au Pluriel, Australian Society for French Studies, 15th Annual Conference, University of Technology, Sydney, 4–6 July 2007.
- “Local colour – a travelling concept”, Invitation au voyage: the Exotic in French Art and Literature since 1800, University of Bristol, Centre for the study of visual and literary cultures in France, Eighth Annual Conference, 3–4 March 2007, Bristol, UK.
- "Un exercice de style archéologique – sur Une visite chez Merodach-Baladan de Théophile Gautier", 32nd Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Bloomington, Indiana, USA, 19–21 October 2006.
- "Une intimité abritée - Sur le jardin téléologique de Bernardin de Saint-Pierre", Conference Jardins et intimité dans la littérature européenne – 1750–1820, organised by the Centre de Recherches Révolutionnaires et Romantiques, Clermont-Ferrand, at the Université « Blaise Pascal », Clermont, France, 22–24 March 2006.
- "Recit fictionnel – un recit (anti)historique?",Annual conference of the ADEFFI, Galway, Ireland, 30 September–1 October 2005”.
- "La Carthage de Flaubert ou le livre sur rien", International Symposium on Imagology, 26–28 April 2004, Mugla, Turkey
- "Exotisme et couleur locale – essai d’une analyse contrastive des champs sémantiques respectifs", International Conference “France and the Exotic”, 22–23 March 2003, Birmingham, UK.
- "Le Destinataire 'migrant' dans l'oeuvre de Négovan Rajic"; International Colloquium – “Littérature, immigration et imaginaire au Québec et en Amérique du Nord”, 12–13 March 2003, Montréal, Canada.
- "Littérature québécoise – une littérature exotique ?", XI Seminar for Graduate Students in Canadian Studies, 30 September – 2 October 2002, Berlin.
- “Voyage à l’Ile de France as an intertextual key to the translation of Paul et Virginie”, Biannual Conference of the Serbian Society for the Study of 18th Century, Novi Sad, 25–26 October 2001 (in Serbian, published with an abstract in French).
Grants and Awards
- January–December 2008 University of Melbourne's Early Career Researcher Grant Scheme.
- June 2007, Seeding grant awarded by the School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne.
- November 2001–December 2001 French government research grant (« Séjour scientifique de haut niveau »).
- December 2000–March 2001 French governement research grant (« Séjour scientifique de haut niveau »).
- July 1996 Grant from the Italian government for in-country language study (A month-long Italian language and culture course in Florence was covered by this grant).
Teaching activities
- 2009 I will coordinate the “From Romanticism to Modernity” option course in collaboration with Dr Srilata Ravi in the second semester, and participate in the teaching of a variety of language courses (1101, 1103, 1105/2205, 3305).
- 2008 Tutor in French IA, post-VCE course at the University of Melbourne
- 2007 Tutor in French IB, post-VCE course at the University of Melbourne. I also taught the module on “Text and Image” studies as part of the “Research Topics and Methods” course.
- 2006 Unit coordinator and lecturer for two courses at the University of Cyprus: a survey course on “La littérature française du XIXe siècle” and a course on “La littérature française moderne”, focusing on French poetry from Baudelaire to the Surrealists.
- 2004–2005 While serving my national duty in Serbia-Montenegro, I was a tutor in a survey course on “Seventeenth-century French literature”.
- 2002–2004 I coordinated and taught all the Serbo-Croatian language and culture electives at the University of Lille-III.
Honours course taught
- 2008 “Text and Image: a Critical Introduction” offered as an umbrella subject to honours students of the School of Languages and Linguistics, at the University of Melbourne.
Honours thesis assessed
- 2008 Examined a thesis on «‘La Femme aux deux visages’ – Médiatisation et fantasme de la première greffe du visage».
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