College: St Catharine鈥檚 College听听听听听
Email: el415@cam.ac.uk
Supervisor: Dr Claire White
Research Topic: Salons in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction, 1800-1848
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About
Ellamae completed a BA in French and Russian at the 澳门六合彩开奖记录 in 2018. After graduation she spent a year working as Editorial Assistant at an educational publisher in London, before returning to 澳门六合彩开奖记录 to undertake an MPhil in European literature (specialising in French prose fiction of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries). She then commenced her PhD in January 2021.
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Research听听听听听听听
Ellamae鈥檚 PhD research explores depictions of salon culture in novels written between 1800 and 1848, focusing on Mme de Sta毛l, Stendhal, and Balzac. Since the early seventeenth century, the salon of a grand home has held particular significance in French culture as the quintessential meeting-place for high society; the spirited conversation at salon gatherings has also been associated with many of the country鈥檚 most influential intellectual women. Drawing on theoretical work by Derrida and Judith Still, she investigates the salon鈥檚 literary role as a space for novelists to reflect on questions of hospitality and social imitation, and also explores how salon scenes might shed light on the complex interrelationship between acts of hosting and acts of narration. Through this approach, Ellamae aims to tie together two threads of debate over the space women occupy in narratives of French literary history 鈥� that surrounding the salon and that surrounding the nineteenth-century novel.听
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Scholarships/Prizes
PhD research funded by the Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholarship Programme
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Teaching听听听听听听听
Supervisor for Fr5: Revolutions in Writing, 1700-1900
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Conference papers
鈥業nheriting the Earth: Zola鈥檚 Anthropocene鈥� (Annual Conference of the Society of Dix-neuvi茅mistes, St Andrew鈥檚, March 2021)
鈥楳me de Sta毛l and the origins of 鈥渢he salon鈥濃�� (澳门六合彩开奖记录 French Graduate Research Seminar, June 2021)
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