PD Dr. Corinne FOURNIER KISS                            

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

Contact

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

+41 (0) 79 612 76 33

corinne.fournier@rom.unibe.ch

Education and qualifications

• Triple habilitation, University of Bern

  • in French Literature

  • in Comparative Literature

  • 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

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• Comparative Literature : Romance and Slavic literatures

  • 19th-21st Centuries

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

  • Fictions of the Fantastic

• Francophone literature (20th and 21st Centuries)

• Literature and interculturality

• Literature and other arts (architecture and music)

• Women's Writing

• Ecocriticism

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Books (selection)

• Monographs

• FOURNIER KISS, Corinne, Germaine de Staël et George Sand en dialogue avec leurs consoeurs polonaises, PUBP, Clermont-Ferrand, 2020 (A Polish translation of this book is in preparation).

• FOURNIER KISS, Corinne, La Ville européenne dans la littérature fantastique du tournant du siècle (1860-1915), L’Âge d’homme, Collection Slavica, Lausanne, 2007.

• Books and Journal Edited

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

• 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.

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

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

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