College: Fitzwilliam
Email: wmrs3@cam.ac.uk
Supervisor: Professor Emma Wilson
Research Topic: Chantal Akerman and Georges Perec: Place and Memory
About
Wilfred began his PhD on Chantal Akerman and Georges Perec in 2023. He holds an MPhil in European, Latin American and Comparative Literatures and Cultures from the 澳门六合彩开奖记录 and a BA in English and French from University College London. After his BA, he was a lecteur d鈥檃nglais at Sorbonne Universit茅, where he also spent his year abroad.
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Research
Wilfred鈥檚 project looks critically at Chantal Akerman and Georges Perec, whose work, across writing and the moving image, is arguably guided by two key, entangled concerns: place (lieu) and memory. In their work, there is significant attentiveness to interiors and cityscapes and both what happens and has happened there. The ways they record, write and film these places invite reflection on how we inhabit the world and process the past, especially the trauma of the Holocaust and its aftereffects.
His doctoral research interrogates how ressassement and recherche shape their oeuvres, drawing on the concept of lieu, as attended to by thinkers such as Roland Barthes (lieux rh茅toriques) and Georges Didi-Huberman. Archival material and recent publications, notably Akerman鈥檚 艗uvre 茅crite et parl茅e and Perec鈥檚 Lieux, strongly inform the project, which has among its aims a revalorisation of Akerman鈥檚 writing and Perec鈥檚 film work.
Other research interests include intermediality (photography, drawing and literature), critical and literary theory, life-writing and the work of Walter Benjamin, Marcel Proust and Alix Cl茅o Roubaud.
Scholarships/Prizes
澳门六合彩开奖记录 Le Bas scholarship (2023-26)
Odette de Mourgues grant (2024)
Fitzwilliam College travel funding (2024)
Postgraduate tutors鈥� prize for distinction (2023)
Robert Lethbridge scholarship in Modern Languages (2022)
Conference papers
鈥楾oute une nuit (Chantal Akerman, 1982): topographies de l鈥檈nfance et de l鈥檃mour鈥�, Re虂cit et sce虂nario dans le 鈥榗ine虂ma d鈥檃uteur鈥�, 1959-1989, Universit茅 de Lausanne, Switzerland, 3-4 October 2024
鈥楻ound and Round: Georges Perec鈥檚 Les Lieux d鈥檜ne fugue (1978)鈥�, 澳门六合彩开奖记录 French Graduate Research Seminar, 7 March 2024
