Mrs Agnès Calatayud
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Overview
Overview
Biography
Agnès Calatayud joined Birkbeck College in October 1991 as a Lecturer in French. Prior to joining Birkbeck, she was Visiting Lecturer in various universities in London.
Highlights
"Un beau viveur et un délicat vivant": Le baron de Besenval, courtisan et collectionneur, à travers son iconographie. Dalhousie French Studies , ISSN 0711-8813.(2020)
An illustrated guide to unfamous places: Satoshi Miki’s Adrift in Tokyo (2007). Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies 19 (2), ISSN 1059-440X. (2019)
The self-portrait in French cinema: reflections on theory and on Agnès Varda’s "Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse". In: Edwards, N. and Hubbell, A.L. and Miller, A. (eds.) Textual and Visual Selves: Photography, Film, and Comic Art in French Autobiography. Lincoln, U.S.: University of Nebraska Press, pp. 209-234. ISBN 9780803236318.
Qualifications
- Maîtrise ès Langues et Civilisations des Pays Anglophones, , Université François Rabelais (Tours, France), 1988
- M.A. in French Literature, Birkbeck College (University of London), 1991
Administrative responsibilities
- French Language Coordinator
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Research
Research
Research interests
- 18th-century culture, literature, art and society
- Contemporary world cinema
- Representations of France’s colonial past in contemporary popular culture,
Research overview
Agnès Calatayud has published extensively in French and in English on Agnès Varda, Dominique Cabrera, Abbas Kiarostami amongst others and on various productions such as French colonial songs and post-colonial cinema. Her articles have been featured in Studies in French Cinema, Studies in European Cinema and Dalhousie French Studies.
She is now engaged in research on the poet Jean-Antoine Roucher (1745-1794) and in particular on "Consolations de ma captivité", his letters from prison to his family and friends, written during the French Revolution. -
Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Teaching
Teaching modules
- French 3 (Level 4) (ARCL105S4)
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Calatayud, Agnes (2021) Un beau viveur et un délicat vivant: Le baron de Besenval, courtisan et collectionneur, à travers son iconographie. Dalhousie French Studies 117, ISSN 0711-8813.
- Calatayud, Agnes (2019) An illustrated guide to unfamous places: Satoshi Miki’s Adrift in Tokyo (2007). Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies 19 (2), ISSN 1059-440X.
- Bray, M. and Calatayud, Agnes (2011) The truth about lies: the relationship between fiction and reality in Abbas Kiarostami’s 'Certified Copy'. New Readings 11, ISSN 1359-7485.
- Bray, M. and Calatayud, Agnes (2010) L'exil des Pieds-Noirs en 1962 dans la comédie musicale "Les Enfants du soleil" (2004): hymne à la réconciliation et à la tolérance ou simple utopie?. Bulletin of Francophone Africa (21-22), pp. 1-11. ISSN 0966-1018.
- Bray, M. and Calatayud, Agnes (2010) L'exil des Pieds-Noirs en 1962 dans la comédie musicale Les enfants du soleil (2004). Bulletin of Francophone Africa 21-22, pp. 1-11. ISSN 0966-1018.
- Calatayud, Agnes (2007) Images of exile: tracing the past within the present in Henri-François Imbert's 'No Pasaràn!' album souvenir. Studies in European Cinema 4 (1), pp. 61-72. ISSN 1741-1548.
- Calatayud, Agnes (2006) Objectif moi: le documentaire à la première personne et le jeune cinéma français. Canadian Journal of Film Studies
- Calatayud, Agnes (2006) Remembrance of things past: a new departure in films and French colonial history? a case study of François Luciani's 'L'Algérie des Chimères' (2003). Bulletin of Francophone Africa ISSN 0966-1018.
- Bray, M. and Calatayud, Agnes (2005) The French film industry's current financial crisis and its impact on creation: the example of Jacques Doillon's Raja (2003). Studies in European Cinema 2 (3), pp. 199-212. ISSN 1741-1548.
- Calatayud, Agnes (2003) Cinema in the first person: Sabine Franel's 'Le Premier du Nom'. Studies in French Cinema 3 (3), pp. 149-160. ISSN 1471-5880.
- Calatayud, Agnes and Bray, M. (2003) La dette: les 'Tirailleurs Sénégalais' pendant la première guerre mondiale ou le destin de ceux qui viennent d’ailleurs. The Web Journal of French Media Studies 6, ISSN 1460-6550.
- Calatayud, Agnes (2002) L'autoportrait en cinéma: 'Cette image me représente'. La Chouette 33,
- Calatayud, Agnes (2002) La chanson populaire en France au temps des colonies: de l'insouciance à la contestation. Remembering Empire: A Publication of the Society For Francophone Postcolonial Studies
- Calatayud, Agnes (2002) Les glaneurs et la glaneuse: Agnès Varda's self-portrait. Dalhousie French Studies 61, pp. 113-123. ISSN 0711-8813.
- Calatayud, Agnes (2001) An ordinary woman but a film-maker: demain et encore demain (1997) - Dominique Cabrera's self-portrait. Studies in French Cinema 1 (1), pp. 22-28. ISSN 1471-5880.
Book Section
- Calatayud, Agnes (2011) The self-portrait in French cinema: reflexions on theory and on Agnès Varda's 'Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse'. In: Edwards, N. and Hubbell, A.L. and Miller, A. (eds.) Textual and Visual Selves: Photography, Film, and Comic Art in French Autobiography. Lincoln, Nebraska, USA: The University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9780803236318.
- Calatayud, Agnes (2011) The self-portrait in French cinema: rfleections on theory and on Agnès Varda’s "Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse". In: Edwards, N. and Hubbell, A.L. and Miller, A. (eds.) Textual and Visual Selves: Photography, Film, and Comic Art in French Autobiography. Lincoln, U.S.: University of Nebraska Press. pp. 209-234. ISBN 9780803236318.
- Calatayud, Agnes (2006) Didactique du FLE dans l'enseignement supérieur: le film de fiction historique et l’acquisition de compétences langagières et culturelles. In: Aden, J. and Monnanteuil, F. (eds.) De Babel à la mondialisation : Apports des sciences humaines à la didactique des langues Broché. Scérén. ISBN 9782866213725.
- Bray, M. and Calatayud, Agnes (2004) Diversité ethnique à la télévision française: l’exemple de Fatou la Malienne (Daniel Vigne, 2001). In: Africultures: Les Mondes en Relation. Inter-Culturel.
- Calatayud, Agnes (2004) Double-je: l’identité au fil du rasoir dans nos traces silencieuses de Sophie Bredier et Myriam Aziza (1998). In: Guy-Murrell, C. and Wilson, C. and Young, M. (eds.) Reading and Writing 'La Rupture': Essays in French Studies II. Reading, UK: The University of Reading. ISBN 9780954625412.
Conference Item
- Calatayud, Agnes (2004) L'exil des Pieds-Noirs en 1962 dans la comédie musicale Les Enfants du Soleil (2004): hymne à la réconciliation et à la tolérance ou simple utopie?. The Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies International Conference, 2004, The Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies