Dr Jann Matlock

Senior Lecturer in French

Research areas: French literature, history, and visual representation, 1789-1914; Comparative literary studies in French, German, and English; Critical theory; Gender studies; Narrative and the novel.; Realism in literature and art; History of psychoanalysis; Film and video; The contemporary French and American media.

Publications:

Desires to Censor: Spectacles of the Body, Aesthetics, and Vision in 19th-century France (forthcoming)

• 'Olympia Devient Française, ou Comment la Modernité a perdu la mémoire' in Ruptures, ed. Jean Galard (Paris: Musée du Louvre and Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 2002).

• 'Et si la sexualité n'avait pas d'avenir?' in Pierre Fedida and Dominique Lecourt, ed. La Sexualité a-t-elle un avenir? (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1999, translations in Spanish and in Czech appeared in 2001)

• 'The Invisible Woman and Her Secrets Revealed,' The Yale Journal of Criticism, (Autumn 1996)

• 'Censoring the Realist Gaze,' in Spectacles of Realism: Gender, Body, Genre, ed. Margaret Cohen and Christopher Prendergast (Minneapolis: U of MN P, 1995)

Scenes of Seduction: Prostitution, Hysteria, and Reading Difference in Nineteenth-Century France (NY: Columbia UP, 1994)

• 'Masquerading Women, Pathologised Men: Cross-dressing, Fetishism, and the Theory of Perversion, 1885-1930,' in Fetishism as Cultural Discourse, ed. Emily Apter and William Pietz, (Ithaca, NY, Cornell UP, 1993)

Media Spectacles (co-editor with Marjorie Garber and Rebecca Walkowitz, Routledge, 1993)


Office: rm 210, 1-4 Malet Place

Tel: 020 7679 3076
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email: j.matlock@ucl.ac.uk