Goldsmiths - University of London

Dr Marie-Claude Canova-Green

BA (Hons) French, Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1985; MA French, Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1986; PhD, Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1991; Lecturer, University of Wales, Swansea, 1991-5; appointed Goldsmiths College, 1995.

Teaching

I currently teach on the following courses: 'Approaches to Text', 'Studies in Comparative Literature' and 'Drama and Transgression', 'The Classic Fairy Tale'. I also contribute to 'Introduction to Comparative Literature' and 'The Short Story'.

Professional activities

• Committee for the Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies.
• Member of  the Société d’Etude du XVIIe siècle, and the Society for Court Studies.

Research interests

My research interests include seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature and culture. I have special research interests in seventeenth-century court entertainements and other forms of large-scale public spectacle. I have also worked on French theatre, in particular comedy from the Middle Ages to the present day.

Selected publications

Books

Ballets pour Louis XIII. Danse et politique a la cour de France (Toulouse: SLC/Champion, 2011)

Ebats et Débats dans la comédie-ballet de Molière (Biblio 17/Gunter Narr, 2007)

Benserade. Ballets pour Louis XIV (SLC/Klinckiesck, 1997)

La Politique-spectacle au grand siècle (Biblio 17, 1993)

La Comédie (Hachette, 1993)

Edited Books

Racine et l’Histoire (ed. with A. Viala) (Biblio 17/Gunter Narr, 2004)

Texte(s) et Intertexte(s) (ed. with E. le Calvez) (Rodopi, 1997)

Articles

'La Rochelle and the Defeat of Protestantism' in Europe triumphans, ed. by  R. Mulryne, M. Shewring, H. Watanabe O'Kelly (Ashgate, 2004)

'Le XVIIIe siècle: un siècle du théâtre' in Le Théâtre en France, ed. by A. Viala (PUF, 1997)