Department of French

Department of French

   

Amaleena Damlé's research interests lie in intersections between twentieth-century and contemporary thought and literature, with a particular emphasis on gender and sexuality. Her previous research considered representations of female corporeality and transformation in contemporary women's writing in French, in dialogue with Deleuzian philosophy and recent (post)feminist and queer thought. She is currently working on a project that looks at notions of love, desire and ethics in modern and contemporary French culture. She has written articles on Amélie Nothomb, Ananda Devia and Marie Darrieussecq, and is the co-editor of The Beautiful and the Monstrous: Essays in French Literature, Thought and Culture (Bern: Peter Lang, 2010).