Matthis Hervieux (PhD)

Tutor in French & Francophone Studies

  • French and Francophone Studies
  • Department of European Languages and Cultures
  • School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures

Contact details

Address

Street

50 George Square
Room 2.40

City
Edinburgh
Post code

Availability

  • "Drop-in" hour: Monday 16:00 to 17:00 and Tuesday 11:00 to 12:00 (from Week 1 to 11 only). If you need to see me outside these periods, please use the link to book a meeting with me, either on campus or online.
    I do not work in June and July.

Biography

Background

I am from an area of Normandy in France called the Pays de Caux. See La Place (Annie Ernaux, 1983) and Le Horsain (Bernard Alexandre, 1998.)

 

Qualifications

  • 2015 - Licence ès Lettres Anglais, Université de Rouen
  • 2018 - Master of Science in Comparative Literature, University of Edinburgh
  • 2025 - PhD in Comparative Literature, University of Edinburgh
    • Title: Beyond Japonisme: Ethics and Aesthetics of Intermedial Japan in Roland Barthes, Michel Butor and Dany Laferrière
    • Supervisors: Dr Fabien Arribert-Narce & Prof Marion Schmid
    • Examiners: Dr Sarah Tribout-Joseph (Edinburgh), Prof Charles Forsdick (Cambridge), Prof Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck)

Undergraduate teaching

  • Year 1
    • French 1A Language
    • French 1B Oral
    • French 1B Literature & Civilisation
    • French 1B Language
    • French Phonetics
  • Year 2
    • French 2 Oral
    • French 2 Language
    • French 2 Literature
    • French Phonetics
  • Year 3 & 4
    • French Hons. Language Paper 1
    • Comparative Literature in a European and Global Perspective

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

Yes

Research summary

  • Francophone literature and visual culture
  • Intermediality
  • Comparative literature
  • World literature and transnationalism
  • Translingualism
  • Ethical criticism (Emmanuel Levinas)
  • Encounters between Japan and the Francophone world
  • The work of Michel Butor and Dany Laferrière

Current research interests

In addition to the above research interests, I am also involved with scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL) in Francophone Studies. This includes engaging with pedagogical scholarship to inform my teaching (i.e. reading about teaching) and writing about teaching, learning and assessment in different formats.

Past research interests

My doctoral research focussed on three French-Speaking writers (Roland Barthes, Michel Butor and Dany Laferrière) and the intermedial aspects of their works on Japan. I examined how these authors engage with Japanese artistic forms (literature, visual arts and theatre) to create their own works, and how this process affects the creation or negation of a possible Japanese "essence", understood in relation to a traditionally reductive or stereotypical japoniste treatment of Japan as a mere aesthetic theme.

Affiliated research centres

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