Sarah Tribout-Joseph
Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies
- French and Francophone Studies
- Department of European Languages and Cultures
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
Address
- Street
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Room 3.42
50 George Square - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9LH
Availability
Drop-in hours during teaching semester:
Tuesday 14:00-15:00 & Thursday 13:00-14:00
Background
Whilst finishing her PhD at the University of Cambridge, Dr Tribout-Joseph took up a teaching fellowship in French at the University of St Andrews in 2004. She came to the University of Edinburgh in 2005.
Undergraduate teaching
- The Modern City: Paris (Final-year option)
- In addition to her commitments in the French and Francophone department she is also Programme Director of the MSc in Comparative Literature.
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Areas of interest for supervision
She would be very happy to supervise students from a Francophone or comparative perspective on:
- representations of the city, the suburbs and edgelands in film, documentaries, literature and life writing
- immigrant and refugee narratives, marginalisation and social justice in the city; the invisible city
- museum space, memory studies
- the modern and contemporary novel,
- Medical Humanities, vulnerability and care in film, documentaries, literature and life writing, etc
Past PhD students supervised
Sarah Arens
Naomi Guzman
Research summary
Dr Tribout-Joseph's researches on 19th to 21st century French and Francophone Studies and Comparative Literature, with a particular focus on 20th and 21st century (life) writing, literature and film.
Current research interests
There are two strands to her current research: one of representations of the city, the suburbs and edgelands in literature and film and linked to questions of marginalisation and social justice and one in the Medical Humanities exploring questions of vulnerability and care in fiction, (life) writing and film.Past research interests
She has published a monograph on discourse in Proust and Joyce. In 2008 she completed an AHRC-funded project on a methodological enquiry into the practice of close textual analysis and visual imagery in Proust.Project activity
Current projects include looking beyond the museum city at attempts to represent the invisible areas on the outskirts on towns and life in inhospitable, disused and derelict areas within towns. She is interested in developing interventionist reading strategies to approach social issues and Medical Humanities narratives.