Neil Malloy
PhD French Studies
Email: neil dot malloy at warwick dot ac dot uk
Research
My research explores how the contemporary French novel represents lives lived in the shadow of neoliberalism.
I am interested in how recent novels by Maylis de Kerangal, Joy Sorman, Julia Deck and Marie-H茅l猫ne Lafon bring into focus those who have been pushed to society鈥檚 edges in the socio-economic situation that has come to dominate France since the turn of the 21st Century.
I read these literary texts alongside the work of recent thinkers in aesthetics like Jacques Ranci猫re and Georges Didi-Huberman, as well as theorists of neoliberalism including Wendy Brown, William Davies and Barbara Stiegler, to explore how literature represents, and enables its readers to think about, political invisibility.
Research Interests
Political invisibility; Neoliberalism; Social alienation; 20th and 21st Century Literature, especially the novel; Georges Didi-Huberman; Maylis de Kerangal; Marguerite Duras; Translation Studies; Visual Cultures; History of Art.
Teaching
The Story of Modern France (FR121)
French-English/English-French Translation (FR201)
Publications
- "Writing La D茅bauche: Desire and the Limits of Work in the Contemporary Novel" in French Studies Bulletin, Volume 45, Issue 169-170, Spring 2024. [
- "'Seuls demeurent' : po茅tique de l'impersonnel chez Duras et Blanchot" in Duras et Blanchot : Ecarts, affinit茅s, communaut茅s ? suivi de Archives plurielles de Duras, ed. Sylvie Loignon, La Revue des Lettres modernes, Minard, 2022.
- "De la disparition d'une lettre : les traductions anglaise et am茅ricaine du Ravissement de Lol V. Stein" in Cahiers Marguerite Duras, 1, 2021.
- "L'茅crit adress茅", "Le Monde ext茅rieur", "La Pute de la c么te normande" in Dictionnaire Marguerite Duras, ed. Bernard Alazet and Christiane Blot-Labarr猫re, Honor茅 Champion, 2020.
- "Faire trembler la langue : traduire L'Amant du fran莽ais en anglais" in Marguerite Duras. Passages, croisements, rencontres, ed. Olivier Ammour-Mayeur, Florence de Chalonge, Yann M茅vel and Catherine Rodgers, Classiques Garnier, 2019.
- "Les ombres du jardin : la mise en sc猫ne des marginaux dans le th茅芒tre de Marguerite Duras" in Marguerite Duras : Un th茅芒tre de voix / A Theatre of voices, ed. Mary Noonan and Jo毛lle Pag猫s-Pindon, Brill-Rodopi, 2018.
- "L'endroit et le mot" in Bulletin de la Soci茅t茅 Marguerite Duras, no 30, vol 1, 2012, pp. 111-123.