Professor Julia Waters
Contact
- Email:
- j.waters@reading.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- +44 (0) 118 378 7305
Responsibilities
Departmental and French Year Abroad Coordinator.
Teaching
My main teaching interests are modern and contemporary French and francophone literature, women's writing, and translation.
At Part 1, I teach on the Introduction to French Culture module (FR1IFC), the Greats of European Cinema module (ML1GEC) and teach French language (FR1L3).
At Part 2, I teach translation between French and English (FR2L4) and offer a module FR2FN, Introduction to the French Novel.
At Part 3, I teach and convene FR3FC, The French Caribbean: Language, Literature and Identity and contribute to ML3CW Cinemas of the World.
Areas of Interest
I have particular research interests in: twentieth-century and contemporary French & Francophone literature; Francophone literatures of the Indian Ocean, especially Mauritius; women’s writing in French, especially Marguerite Duras and Ananda Devi; feminist & postcolonial theory. I am happy to supervise PhD theses on any of these or related areas.
In 2012-13, I held an AHRC Fellowship for a research project on Contemporary Mauritian Literature: (De)Colonisation, Globalisation, Multiculturalism.
My latest monograph, The Mauritian Novel: Fictions of Belonging, is due to appear in November 2018 with Liverpool University Press: https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/collections/subject_category-modern-languages_french-and-francophone-studies/products/109134
To read my latest article, on literary representations of Mauritian independence, please click on the following link: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/uCyD3c5tvg7B7wCTaR9Z/full
My book, Duras and Indochina: Postcolonial Perspectives (Liverpool: SFPS Critical Studies, 2006) is now available in digital form here: http://sfps.org.uk/sfps-critical-studies/
Research groups / Centres
I am on the Editorial Board of _Les Cahiers du GRELCEF_.
I am a member of Le Conseil International des Études Francophones; The Society for French Studies; The Society of Francophone Postcolonial Studies; The Société Marguerite Duras; and The Centre for Contemporary Women's Writing.
Publications
2018
- Waters, J. (2018) La Case Créole as Reunionnese lieu de mémoire. In: Forsdick, C., Achille, E. and Moudileno, L. (eds.) Postcolonial Realms of Memory. Liverpool University Press, Liverpool. (In Press)
- Waters, J. (2018) The Mauritian novel: fictions of belonging. Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, 56. Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, pp224. ISBN 9781786941497 (In Press)
- Waters, J. (2018) C'est l'endroit qui nous a faits ainsi: Place, gender and belonging in Nathacha Appanah's 'Blue Bay Palace' and Ananda Devi's 'Eve de ses décombres'. In: McIllvanney, S. and Ni Cheallaigh, G. (eds.) Women in the City: French Literature and Culture. French and Francophone Studies. University of Wales Press, Cardiff. (In Press)
- Waters, J. (2018) La vraie "géographie fausse" du Cycle Indien. In: Chalonge, de, F., Rodgers, C., Mervel, Y. and Ammour-Mayeur, O. (eds.) Marguerite Duras: passages, croisements, rencontres. Editions Garnier, Paris. (In Press)
- Waters, J. (2018) ‘Les années de braise’ reconsidered: literary representations of Mauritian independence, fifty years on. South Asian Diaspora, 10 (2). pp. 75-90. ISSN 1943-8192 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/19438192.2018.1460913
2017
- Waters, J. (2017) Rewriting Mauritius: Ananda Devi's postcolonial self-translation. In: Misrahi-Barak, J. and Ravi, S. (eds.) Translating the Postcolonial in Multilingual Contexts'. PoCo Pages, 2017. Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée, pp. 53-70. ISBN 9782367812410
2013
- Waters, J. (2013) Ananda Devi as writer and translator: in interview with Julia Waters. In: Batchelor, K. and Bidsdorff, C. (eds.) Intimate Enemies: Translation in Francophone Contexts. Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, pp. 117-123. ISBN 9781846318672
- Waters, J. (2013) Ananda Devi as transcolonial translator. In: Batchelor, K. and Bisdorff, C. (eds.) Intimate Enemies: Translation in Francophone Texts. Francophone Postcolonial Studies (4). Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, pp. 216-234. ISBN 9781846318672
- Waters, J. (2013) Faiblesse de l'amant chinois: l'expression d'une beauté masculine idéale? In: Limam-Tnani, N. (ed.) Marguerite Duras: Altérité et étrangeté ou la douleur de l'écriture et de la lecture. Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes, France, pp. 163-176. ISBN 9782753521735
2011
- Waters, J. (2011) The gender politics of food in Ananda Devi's recent novels. In: Bragard, V. and Ravi, S. (eds.) Écritures mauriciennes au féminin: penser l'altérité. L'Harmattan, Paris, pp. 249-269. ISBN 9782296542112
2010
- Waters, J. (2010) Un monde d’objets et de gestes : la représentation du corps féminin dans La Jalousie d’Alain Robbe-Grillet. Roman 20-50: revue d'étude du roman du XXe siècle, 6. pp. 151-163. ISSN 0295-5024
- Waters, J. (2010) Packaging the Francophone "African" novel: a new exoticism? In: Daramola, A. and Makokha , J.K.S. (eds.) Tales, Tellers and Talesmanship: Aspects of Literary Stylistics and Narratology in Contemporary African Literature. VDM Verlag, Berlin, pp. 25-35.
2008
- Waters, J. (2008) From continents noirs to collection blanche: from other to same? The case of Ananda Devi. e-france, 2. pp. 55-74. (special issue: ‘L’ici et l’ailleurs’: postcolonial literatures of the Francophone Indian Ocean)
- Waters, J. (2008) Introduction:‘L’ici et l’ailleurs’: postcolonial literatures of the Francophone Indian Ocean. e-france, 2. pp. 3-8. (special issue: ‘L’ici et l’ailleurs’: postcolonial literatures of the Francophone Indian Ocean)
2007
- Waters, J. and Giorgio, A. (2007) Introduction: gender, generation and legacy. In: Waters, J. and Giorgio, A. (eds.) Women's Writing in Western Europe: Gender, Generation and Legacy. Cambridge Scholars Press, Newcastle, pp. 1-21. ISBN 9781847181657
- Waters, J. and Giorgio, A. (2007) Women's writing in western Europe: gender, generation and legacy. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge, pp460. ISBN 9781847181657
- Waters, J. (2007) Writing Indochina: Marguerite Duras and Pascale Roze. In: Waters, J. and Giorgio, A. (eds.) Women's writing in western Europe: gender, generation and legacy. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge, pp. 85-101. ISBN 9781847181657
2006
- Waters, J. (2006) Duras and Indochina: postcolonial perspectives. S.F.P.S. critical studies in postcolonial literature and culture. Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies, pp117. ISBN 9780954166212
2005
- Waters, J. (2005) "Cholen, la capitale chinoise de l'Indochine francaise": rereading Marguerite Duras's (Indo)Chinese space. In: Robson , K. and Yee, J. (eds.) France and 'Indochina': Cultural Representations. After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France. Lexington Books, Lanham and New York, pp. 179-191. ISBN 9780739108390
2004
- Waters, J. (2004) Contextualising Métissage in Duras's Indochinese novels. Francophone Postcolonial Studies, 2 (1). pp. 79-82.
- Waters, J. (2004) Continents apart: intertextual subversion in Justine Mintsa's 'Histoire d'Awu'. Francophone Postcolonial Studies, 2 (2). pp. 34-50.
- Waters, J. (2004) Marguerite ou l'enchantement: l'angoisse de l'influence chez Alain Robbe-Grillet. In: Saemmer, A. and Patrice, S. (eds.) Les Lectures de Marguerite Duras. Presses Universitaires de Lyon, Lyon and Paris, pp. 269-277. ISBN 9782729707453
- Waters, J. (2004) 'Ton continent est noir': rethinking feminist metaphors in Ananda Devi's 'Pagli'. Dalhousie French Studies, 68. pp. 45-55.
2003
- Waters, J. (2003) Marguerite Duras and colonialist discourse: an intertextual reading of 'L'Empire français' and 'Un barrage contre le Pacifique'. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 39 (3). pp. 254-266. ISSN 1471-6860 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/39.3.254
- Waters, J. (2003) Colonial undercurrents: the motif of the Mekong in Marguerite Duras's "Indochinese" texts. In: Forsdick, C. and Murphy, D. (eds.) Francophone Postcolonial Studies: A Critical Introduction. Arnold, London and New York, pp. 253-262. ISBN 9780340808023
2000
- Waters, J. (2000) Intersexual rivalry: a 'Reading in Pairs' of Marguerite Duras and Alain Robbe-Grillet. Modern French Indentities, 2. Peter Lang, Bern and New York, pp228. ISBN 9783906763743