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NUI Galway, French, Staff

Email:	maria.scottnuigalway.ie
Phone:	353 (0)91 49 2230
Fax:	353 (0)91 49 4508
Office Location:	Room 325, Top Floor, Arts Millennium Building

Biography

Maria Scott is a lecturer in the Department of French at National University of Ireland, Galway. She holds a PhD in French literature from Trinity College Dublin and a Diplôme d'Études Approfondies (DEA), also in French literature, from the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III. In 2004-2005 Maria was the beneficiary of a Government of Ireland Research Fellowship, which allowed her to devote twelve months to the development of her current project on Stendhal's heroines. 

In 2011, Maria was appointed to the editorial committee of the Irish Journal of French Studies. She is also a member of the executive committee of the  Society of Dix-Neuxiémistes.

Teaching Areas

• French Language
• Nineteenth-Century Novel
• Nineteenth-Century Poetry
• Gender & Modernity
• Twentieth-Century Theatre
• Critical approaches and methods

Research Interests

• Nineteenth-century literature (particularly prose poetry and the novel)
• Feminist reading practices
• Deceptive texts
• Psychoanalysis
• Text-image relations

Recent Publications

• Book

Stendhal's Less-Loved Heroines: Freedom, Fiction, and the Female (Legenda, 2013)

Co-editor of Artful Deceptions: Verbal and Visual Trickery in French Culture (Peter Lang, 2006)

Baudelaire's ’Le Spleen de Paris’: Shifting Perspectives (Ashgate, 2005)
[Winner of the 2006 R. H. Gapper Book Prize, awarded by the Society for French Studies]


Articles and book chapters:

’Comédie et liberté chez Stendhal: Une étude de ses actrices’, L’Année stendhalienne, 11 (2012), 217--31.

'Intertextes et mystifications dans les poèmes en prose de Baudelaire', Romantisme, 156.2 (2012), 63-73

'Stendhal's Muddy Realism', Dix-Neuf, 16.1 (2012), 15-27.

'Les Promenades dans Rome: l'amazone stendhalienne est-elle romaine', in Enquêtes sur les 'Promenades dans Rome': "Façons de voir"', textes réunis par Xavier Bourdenet et François Vanoosthuyse (ELLUG, 2011), pp. 247-64.

’Le Réalisme et la peur du désir? Le cas de Lucien Leuwen’, L’Année stendhalienne, 9 (2010), 35-57.

’Le thème de l’amitié féminine chez un “tendre ami des femmes”’, L'Année stendhalienne, 8 (2009), 101-15.

’Stendhal’s Heroines: Escaping History through History’, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 37.3-4 (2009), 260-72.

’Reading the Look and Looking at Reading in Baudelaire’, Modern Language Review, 104.2 (2009), 375-88. 

’Simone de Beauvoir on Stendhal : in Good Faith or in Bad ?’ The Irish Journal of French Studies, 8 (2008), 55-71.

'Lacan's "Of the Gaze as objet petit a" as anamorphic discourse', Paragraph, 31.3 (2008), 327-43.

'Performing Desire: Stendhal's Theatrical Heroines', French Studies, 62 (2008), 259-70.

’Ce singulier panégyriste: Joseph de Maimieux’s Éloge philosophique de l’impertinence’ , French Studies Bulletin, 28.105 (2007), 80-82.

'Acts of Suppression: Adapting Le Rouge et le Noir', Literature/Film Quarterly, 35.3 (2007), 237-43.

'Stendhal's Rebellious Mothers and the Fight Against Death-by-Maternity', in Birth and Death in Nineteenth-Century French Culture, ed. Nigel Harkness et al. (Rodopi, 2007), pp. 139-51.

’Artful Deceptions: Distortions, Seductions, and Substitutions’ in Artful Deceptions: Verbal and Visual Trickery in French Culture, ed. Catherine Emerson and Maria Scott (Peter Lang, 2006), pp. 15-32.

’Le "moi" insaisissable du Spleen de Paris’, Bulletin Baudelairien, 40.1-2 (2005), 51-65.

’Stendhal, Mathilde et le regard oblique’, in L’Oeil écrit, ed. Johnnie Gratton and Derval Conroy (Geneva: Slatkine, 2005), pp. 221–36.

’Textual Trompe-l’oeil in Jacques Derrida’s Memoirs of the Blind’, in On Verbal/Visual Representation, ed. Martin Heusseur et al., Word & Image Interactions 4 (Rodopi, 2005), pp. 239–49.

’Baudelaire’s Canine Allegories: "Le Chien et le flacon" and "Les Bons Chiens"’, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 33.1–2 (2004–2005), 107–19.

’Reading Monstrosity in Baudelaire’s "Mademoiselle Bistouri"’, Australian Journal of French Studies, 38.2 (2001), 228–40.

’Superfluous Intrigues in Baudelaire’s Prose Poems’, French Studies, 55.3 (2001), 351–62. 

 

 

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