Faaam is a research group devoted to women’s literary, philosophical, artistic, and intellectual productions, focusing on the production contexts and their reception. It was founded in 1999 by Prof. Claire Bazin and Prof. Marie-Claude Perrin Chenour. The group is now headed by Myriam-Isabelle Ducrocq, Séverine Letalleur, Nathalie Saudo and Valérie Baisnée.
We organize monthly meetings, in which we present essays, books chapters or books that help nourish our thoughts and research projects. We have been working on intimacy and politcs for several years now.
Myriam-Isabelle Ducrocq is professor at Paris Nanterre, her research focuses on the history of Philosophy and social and Political Philosophy, and she is particularly interested in women philosophers. She published two monographs,
La République de Harrington dans la France des Lumières et de la Révolution, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment/Voltaire Foundation, 2022 and Aux Sources de la démocratie anglaise. De Thomas Hobbes à John Locke, Lille : Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2012. https://www.parisnanterre.fr/mme-myriam-isabelle-ducrocq
Séverine Letalleur-Sommer is associate professor at Université Paris Nanterre. Her research interests include eco-semiotics, stylistics, and linguistics; as well as arts.
Auréliane Narvaez is associate professor at Université Paris Nanterre. Her research interests include the history of feminism (in the United States and from a transatlantic perspective) and the history freethought movements, and feminist freethinkers. Recent essays include Défendre le corps des femmes. Libre pensée et féminisme aux États-Unis (1820-1920) », Transatlantica n°1, 2022 dans le numéro thématique « Women’s Political Activism and Protest Without the Vote : Rethinking the History of the 19th Amendment » codirigé par Claire Delahaye et Fatma Ramdani [en ligne]. https://www.parisnanterre.fr/aureliane-narvaez
Claire Bazin is Professor of 19th century English and Commonwealth Literature at Paris Nanterre University, France. She is the author of several books on the Brontë sisters: La Vision du Mal chez les Sœurs Brontë (PUM 1995) and Jane Eyre, Le Pèlerin moderne (Le Temps 2005). She co-authored Janet Frame : Naissance d’une œuvre : The Lagoon and other stories (PUF 2010) and is the author of Janet Frame in Writers and their Work (Northcote Publishers 2011). She has also published a chapter on Janet Frame’s An Angel at my Table in Teaching Australian and New Zealand Literature (MLA 2017) and another chapter entitled “Strategies of avoidance in Janet Frame’s The Lagoon” in Janet Frame in Focus, ed. Josephine A. McQuail (McFarland 2018). Another chapter entitled “Jane Eyre, gothic or not?” was published in The History of the Gothic, ed. Clive Bloom. She also co-edited Women’s Life Writing and the Practice of Reading/She Reads to Write Herself (Palgrave Macmillan 2018) and published an article entitled “Janet Frame’s Autobiographical Trilogy: the Birth of an Œuvre”. She is one of the co-founders of FAAAM and was one of the group’s heads for over 20 years.
Valérie Baisnée-Keay is Associate Professor in English at the University of Paris Saclay, Paris, France. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her research interests revolve around the personal writings and poetry of twentieth and twenty-first century women, with a particular focus on New Zealand women writers, including Katherine Mansfield. She has contributed to several published books and journals on women’s autobiographies and diaries and co-edited the collection Women’s Life Writing and the Practice of Reading/ She Reads to Write Herself (Palgrave Macmillan 2018). She is the author of Gendered Resistance: The Autobiographies of Simone de Beauvoir, Maya Angelou, Janet Frame and Marguerite Duras (1997) and In the Long Corridor of Distance: Space and Place in New Zealand Women’s Autobiographies (2014) both published by Rodopi.
https://www.baisnee.fr/
Alice Braun is Associate Professor at Paris Nanterre. Her current research project focuses on maternal studies, more specifically the representation of motherhood and matermity in 20th and 21st century women’s life writing
https://mumswrite.hypotheses.org/
https://www.parisnanterre.fr/mme-alice-braun
Nathalie Saudo-Welby is a professor at the Université Jules Verne Picardie in Amiens, France, where she teaches British Literature and translation. Her doctorate (2003) focuses on degeneration in British literature (1886-1913).
She has published over twenty articles on fin-de-siècle literature, women’s writing and women’s perception of conflict. Her book on the New Woman, Le Courage de déplaire, was published by Classiques Garnier in 2019; and Her book on degeneration in late-Victorian fiction (Jack and Jekyll: la dégénérescence en Grande-Bretagne 1886-1914, ENS éditions) came out in 2023.
Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni is Associate Professor at Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis. Her areas of research include Asian American writing, Ethnic and Postcolonial studies. After her extensive work on self-writing in Chinese American literature, she turned her attention to non-Anglophone textual productions only recently recognized as belonging to American literature (Yan Geling). By taking an interest in Ruth Ozeki’s writing, she has also been delving into contemporary Japanese-American fictional and self-referential representations. Following her research at Academia Sinica (summer 2019), she is currently mapping out Taiwanese American literature in English. She is co-editor (with Sämi Ludwig) of the critical volume On the Legacy of Maxine Hong Kingston. The Mulhouse Book (Lit Verlag 2014) and co-editor and contributor to the collection of essays Women’s Life Writing and the Practice of Reading/She Reads to Write Herself (Palgrave Macmillan 2018).
https://transcrit.univ-paris8.fr/-ALEXOAE-ZAGNI-Nicoleta-MCF-?lang=fr
Corinne Bigot is Associate Professor in postcolonial literature at Université Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès. Her research focuses on 19th to 21st century Canadian women writers and many of her published essays and books are devoted to the Canadian short story writer Alice Munro. Another part of her research focuses on diasporic women writers—focusing on the practice of everyday life, in the culinary memoir and the short story. She is also interested the role given to women in the transmission of culture in Canadian Anishinaabe women’s writings. In 2019, she co-edited a special issue of the American journal Wagadu (vol 19): Jamaica Kincaid as Crafter and Grafter. She is with Prof. Françoise Kràl and Dr. Sam Coombes a founder member of the research group Diaspolinks, and co-edited with them a special issue of The Journal of Postcolonial Writing, “Diasporic Trajectories” (vol 55, 2019). She published essays on diasporic culinary memoirs in The Journal of Postcolonial Studies (55, 2019), and in edited volumes such as Ethnicity and Kinship in North American and European Literatures (Silvia Schultermandl & Klaus Rieser, Routledge, 2021). She co-edited Women’s Life Writing and the Practice of Reading/She Reads to Write Herself with FAAAM members Valérie Baisnée-Keay, Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni and Claire Bazin (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). She co edited Text and Image in Women’s Life Writing (Palgrave Macmillan 2021) with with fellow FAAAM members Valérie Baisnée-Keay, Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni, Stephanie Genty and Claire Bazin
https://cas.univ-tlse2.fr/accueil-cas/membres/corinne-bigot
Stephanie Genty is Senior Lecturer at the Université d’Évry / Paris-Saclay. After obtaining a BA in “Social and Political Art” and an MA in French from the University of California, she pursued a PhD in American literature at the University of Bordeaux. Her dissertation explored the representation of women’s condition in Marilyn French’s work, and particularly her “iconography” of feminine malaise. Stephanie Genty has published on Marilyn French, Margaret Atwood, Nadine Gordimer and Patti Smith. She wrote the afterword to French’s sixth novel, In the Name of Friendship (New York: The Feminist Press, 2006) and is currently writing a literary biography of Marilyn French (1929-2009)..