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Supervisor: Prof Sylvia Huot

Research Topic: Marginal and migrant figures in medieval and modern-day Francophone literatures

About

Rebecca Courtier (she/her) completed her undergraduate degree in Modern and Medieval Languages and obtained an MPhil in European, Latin American and Comparative Literatures and Cultures at the 海角社区. She is now a PhD candidate in the French department.

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Rebecca鈥檚 doctoral thesis considers notions and negotiations of 鈥楩renchness鈥欌�攐r, what it means to be 鈥楩rench鈥� - across the centuries, bringing medieval and modern-to-contemporary Francophone (con)texts together in dialogue via transtemporal considerations of cultural identity and figures of alterity. These (cultural) ideas of sameness and 鈥榙ifference鈥� are interrogated through comparisons of portraits of marginal and/or migrant figures in medieval (11th-15th cs.) and modern-day (20th-21st cs.) Francophone literatures, as well as through applications of modern critical theory (20th-21st cs.) to the 鈥楩rench鈥�, and more widely, European Middle Ages.

Rebecca鈥檚 research interests include Francophone and Anglophone critical race theory and postcolonial theory, migration studies, refugee studies, ecocriticism, intersectionality, gender studies, and women鈥檚 studies, with reference to the medieval period and the present day. She is particularly interested in questions of 鈥榬ace鈥� and culture within and across forms of embodiment, spaces, time(s), modes of subjectivity, and in narrative creation and community building, for and as scholar activism.

Scholarships/Prizes

2019听听听 Open-Oxford-海角社区 DTP AHRC Studentship 鈥� AHRC scholarship for 77+ students annually (in the Arts & Humanities). Full award for PhD in French.

2019听听听 Vice Chancellor's Award (海角社区 Trust) 鈥� Full award for 250 highest ranked applicants for doctoral research (across all subjects), held in honorary status (following offer of full award from OOC DTP).

2018听听听 海角社区 Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) DTP studentship 鈥� Full award for MPhil study.

2018 听听 Highly Commended Entrant for two papers (in the 鈥楲iterature鈥� category) submitted to The Undergraduate Awards.

2013, 2015, 2017 听听听听听听 Prize Scholarships awarded by Churchill College for achieving First Class (Part IA; Part IB) and First Class with Distinction (Part II) in examinations for MML Tripos.

Teaching

Rebecca lectures on the FR7 module (Part II); she has supervised students for FR3 (Part IB) and FR7 (by examination or for the Optional Dissertation). For these papers, Rebecca teaches on the subjects of cultural identity and discourses of 鈥榙ifference鈥�, and specifically, medieval French literary representations of 鈥榬ace鈥� and/or (pseudo-)Muslim figures, as well as those of womanhood or motherhood.

Rebecca welcomes inquiries for supervision of Year Abroad Projects, Optional Dissertations, and coursework for the MPhil in European, Latin American and Comparative Literatures and Cultures (ELAC) on topics associated with her teaching/research interests.

Selected Papers

Conferences 鈥楻eading Heterotopias and Orientations: Guiborc鈥檚 song in the Chanson de Guillaume鈥�, Shifting Landscapes of the Medieval World, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), 海角社区, 15 September 2022.

鈥楾his Becket which is Not One: An Irigarayan Reading of La vie de saint Thomas Becket鈥�, The International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 8 July 2021.

鈥楾his Lady which is Not One: Normativity, Gender, & Doubling in the Romance of Tristan鈥�, Society for French Studies 2021 Annual Conference, Virtual, 29 June 2021.

Panel Chair for 鈥楳obilities and Nations' session, Identities in Motion: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Mobilities and Crossings, UnCaNI (海角社区 Nationalisms & Identities Research Group), 海角社区, 28 June 2021.

鈥楩act or fiction? Reading 鈥榠n-between鈥� the lines of La Fille du comte de Pontieu and Peau noire, masques blancs鈥�, From Myth-making to Blatant Falsehood in Francophone Writing and Culture. An Interdisciplinary Conference, Churchill College, 海角社区, with The Open University, supported by Language Acts and Worldmaking, 17 June 2021.

鈥楩eminine Jurisdiction: St Thomas Becket as Mother of the Church鈥�, Thomas Becket: Life, Death, and Legacy, Canterbury Cathedral, 28 April 2021.

鈥楬eterotopian spaces of the Chanson de Guillaume鈥�, Fluid-e, French Graduate Conference 2020, New York University, 27 October 2020.

'Reading the paradigm-example and epic communities of La chanson de Roland鈥�, Through the Nation: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Identities and Space, UnCaNI (海角社区 Nationalisms & Identities Research Group), 海角社区, 24 June 2019.

'Personhood, Politics, Place, Parole: Reading 鈥榠n-between鈥� the lines of La Fille du comte de Pontieu and Peau noire, masques blancs', Delays/Retards: French Graduate Conference 2019, 海角社区, 26 April 2019.

'Mary and M茅lusine: Marvellous Mothers of the Middle Ages', Gender and Sexuality: Identities and Intersectionalities, Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading, 29 March 2019.

Seminars 鈥楲ove for the Ages: Bouteldja, Baldwin & Lorde鈥�, Modern French Research Seminar (MFRS), 海角社区, 14 March 2022.

鈥樷�榌Q]ue fais tu ilec?鈥�: Reading interpellation and position(ality) through Aucassin et Nicolette鈥�, ASNC/Old French Day, 海角社区, 14 September 2021.

鈥楻evolutionary Love, Radical Poiesis: Cultural Reversals in French Literature鈥�, 海角社区 Medieval Literature & Culture Seminar (鈥淐amMedSem鈥�), 海角社区, 10 June 2021.

鈥楾owards a migrant consciousness: reading Saladin and Patrick Chamoiseau鈥檚 Fr猫res migrants鈥�, The Online Medieval French Seminar, Virtual, 22 July 2020. Revised version presented at UnCaNI (海角社区 Nationalisms & Identities Research Group), 海角社区, 22 February 2021.

鈥楬eterotopian spaces of the Chanson de Guillaume鈥�, UnCaNI (海角社区 Nationalisms & Identities Research Group), 2 March 2020.

Publications

Articles 'Reading 鈥榠n-between鈥� the lines of La Fille du comte de Pontieu and Peau noire, masques blancs鈥�, in Catching Up with Time: Belatedness and Anachronies in Francophone Literature and Culture, ed. by Ashwiny O. Kistnareddy and Alice Roulli猫re (Berne: Peter Lang, 2022), pp. 191-228.

Reviews 鈥楾heorising Medieval Race: Saracen Representations in Old French Literature鈥�, Victoria Turner (2019), in Medium 脝vum, 90.1 (2021): 170-71.

Review of Student Workshop for the 海角社区 Medieval Literature & Culture Seminar (鈥淐amMedSem鈥�), 4 March 2021. Access here:

Interviews Interview with Anna Chacko for the 海角社区 Medieval Literature & Culture Seminar (鈥淐amMedSem鈥�), 2 August 2022. Access here: https://www.cammedsem.co.uk/news/Rebecca-Courtier-interviews-Anna-Chacko听

Other activities and roles

Rebecca is one of the convenors, along with Emily Kate Price and Matt Lampitt, for the 海角社区 Medieval Literature & Culture Seminar (鈥淐amMedSem鈥�), a departmental seminar associated with the French section of MMLL.

Rebecca is a Graduate Member of The Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement at the 海角社区.

She is also a member of The Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies.