Professor Mairéad Hanrahan
Professor of French
Research areas:
Twentieth- and twenty-first-century French writing; gender and genre and, more generally, the relationship between literature and theory (especially in its psychoanalytical, poststructuralist and feminist forms); literature and mathematics; trauma studies; women’s writing; Jean Genet; Hélène Cixous
Recent Publications include:
•‘L’Exhibition du vide: la blessure indicible à l’origine de l’art’, Jean Genet: Rituels de l’exhibition, (eds.) Bernard Alazet and Marc Dambre, Presses Universitaires de Dijon, Dijon, 2009, pp. 13-24. •‘Countersigning Painting: Hélène Cixous’s Art of Writing About Painting’, The European Legacy, 14:1, 2009, pp. 5-17.
•‘Rêver cru’, Rêver croire penser: Autour d’Hélène Cixous, (eds.) Marta Segarra and Bruno Clément, Hermann, Paris, 2010, pp. 226-238.
•‘Proper Numbers’, Zahlen, Zeichen und Figuren: Mathematische Inspirationen in Kunst und Literatur [Numbers, Signs, and Figures: Mathematical Inspirations in Literature and the Arts], (eds.) Andrea Albrecht, Werner Frick and Gesa von Essen, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 2011, pp. 529-42.
•‘Derrida héritier de Genet?’, Revue de littératures française et comparée, Autumn 2011, pp. 53-58.
•‘Portrait de l’artiste en jeune homme’, Jean Genet, toujours en fuite, numéro spécial, Spirale, Printemps 2012.
Forthcoming:
•‘Writing Symptomatically’, Auto-Analyses: Hélène Cixous and Jacques Derrida, (eds.) Mark Dawson, Mairéad Hanrahan and Eric Prenowitz, Paragraph, 36:2, 2013.
•‘La Rhétorique du silence dans l’écriture de Genet,’ Cahier Genet, Cahiers de l’Herne, (éd.) Albert Dichy, Paris, 2013.
•‘Le Cru et les cuisses: Ecrire à l’adresse de l’Amérique’, Jean Genet, le Québec et l’Amérique, (eds.) Mathilde Barraband et Hervé Guay, Les Herbes Rouges, Montréal.
Other:
•‘Deconstruction Today’, UCL
Lunchtime Lecture. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lhl/lhlpub_spring10/03_260110 (click for link to podcast)
• 'A Chat About Cats, Cathedrals and Chairs (Or the Place of Literature Within the University)', Inaugural Lecture, UCL (click to read it)
Office: room 109,1-4 Malet Place
Tel: 020 7679 3149
Internal extension: 33149
email: m.hanrahan@ucl.ac.uk
