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PD Dr. Corinne FOURNIER KISS                            

Privatdocent and lecturer at the Faculty of Arts, University of Bern, Switzerland

Contact

Institute of French Language and Literature
University of Bern
Länggassstrasse 49
CH - 3000 Bern 9

corinne.fournier@unibe.ch

Education and qualifications

  • Habilitation, University of Bern

    • in Comparative Literatures

    • in French Literatures

    • in Slavic Literatures

  • Doctorate, University of Geneva

    • in Comparative Literature

  • Licence ès lettres, University of Geneva

 

Awards

 

Prix Européen du Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire 2009” (French Prize for Literary Criticism on the Literature of the Fantastic) for the monograph La Ville européenne dans la littérature fantastique du tournant du siècle (1860-1915) [Representation of the City as a Place of the Fantastic in the European Literature of the Turn of the Century (1860-1915)], L’Âge d’Homme, Collection Slavica, Lausanne, 2007.

 

Areas of specialization and interest

  • Comparative Literatures: especially Romance and Slavic and, to a lesser extent, German and Anglo-Saxon Literatures (19th-21st Centuries)

    • Representions of Space – urban space, domestic space, borders and landscapes

    • Fictions of the Fantastic

    • Women's Writing

  • Francophone Literatures (20th and 21st Centuries)

  • Literature and Music

  • Ecocriticism and Ecology (focus on the motif of the gardens and on the Amazonian rainforest)

 

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Books (selection)

 

  • Monographs

 

  • Books and Journal Edited

  • FOURNIER KISS, Corinne (ed.), Littérature et Humanités environnementales. Comment écrire l'écocide? / Literature and Environmental Humanities. How to write of the Ecocide?, Academic Press, Fribourg, 2023 (forthcoming).

  • SUTER, Patrick & FOURNIER KISS, Corinne (eds.), Poétique des frontières. Une approche transversale des littératures de langue française (XXe et XXIe siècles), MétisPresses, Genève, 2021, 384 p.

  • BOTEZAT, Onorina, FOURNIER KISS, Corinne & MIHAILA, Ramona (eds.), Scriitori români de expresie străină / Écrivains roumains d’expression étrangère / Romanian Authors Writing in Foreign Tongues, Editura ProUniversitaria, Bucarest, 2021, 380 p.

  • FOURNIER KISS, Corinne (Guest editor), Fernando Pessoa:  Originality and Cosmopolitanism/Pessoa Plural – A Journal of Fernando Pessoa Studies, n. 18 (special edition), Brown University, 2020, 269 p.

  • FOURNIER KISS, Corinne (ed.), Colloquium Helveticum. Musique et émotions dans la littérature/Musik und Emotionen in der Literatur/Music and Emotions in Literature, n. 48, Aisthesis, Bielefeld, 2019, 460 p.

  • JANICKA, Anna, FOURNIER KISS, Corinne & BRACKA, Mariya (eds.), Przemiany dyskursu emancypacyjnego kobiet, Seria I: "Perspektywa Środkowoeuropejska" , Wydawnictwo Temida, Białystok, 2019, 750 p.

  • JANICKA, Anna, FOURNIER KISS, Corinne & OLECH, Barbara (eds.), Przemiany dyskursu emancypacyjnego kobiet, Seria II: "Perspektywa Polska", Wydawnictwo Temida, Białystok, 2019, 730 p.

  • FOURNIER KISS, Corinne, CHARIATTE Nadine & KRAKENBERGER, Etna R. (eds.), Räume der Romania - Beiträge zum XXX. Forum Junge Romanistik, Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2016, 468 p.

  • SUTER, Patrick, BORDESSOULE-GILLIÉRON, Nadine & FOURNIER KISS, Corinne (eds.), Regards sur l’interculturalité. Un parcours interdisciplinaire, MétisPresses, Genève, 2016.

  • HUNKELER, Thomas, FOURNIER KISS, Corinne & LUETHI, Ariane (eds.), Place au public. Les spectateurs du théâtre contemporain, MétisPresses, Genève, 2008.

 

Complete list of publications, click here 

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