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Parayre, Catherine
Faculty of Humanities
Parayre, Catherine
Degrees Granted
Ph. D., Romance Languages, The University of Georgia (USA)
Graduate Certificate, Women’s Studies, The University of Georgia
MA French Literature, The University of Kansas
DEA Literatures and Cultures of English-Speaking Countries,
Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier III, France
DEUG, Licence, Maîtrise English, Université Paul Valéry
Research Areas
- The representation of women in contemporary Occitan literature
- Questions of identity in minority literatures
- Landscape description
- Photography in literary texts: textual descriptions of photographs and photographic effects
- Testimonies of illness in recent French texts
- Disfigurement in contemporary literature and the visual arts
- Disability in literature and the arts
Selected list of publications
La photographie et le vécu . Wien: Praesens, 2007.
Suivez le guide ! Moments d'initiation dans quelques oeuvres félibréennes . Wien: Praesens, 2005.
La Mort au féminin : Philadelphe de Gerde, Calelhon, Clardeluno et
Farfantello racontent . Turnhout: Brepols, 2004.
Jean Boudou, écrivain de langue d'oc . Paris: Harmattan, 2003.
“Autobiographie et photographie : comment raconter le traumatisme ?” Texte : Revue de critique et de théorie littéraire 41/42 (2007) : 63-80.
“Maladies de la fin: La Santa Estela del Centenari et Lo Libre dels grands jorns de Jean Boudou” Lengas, Revue de sociolinguistique 61 (2007) : 59-72.
“Histoires de l'œil et de l'œuf : Jonàs et Lo Fiu de l'uòu ” Voix plurielles, Revue de l’association des professeur-e-s de français des universités et collèges canadiens (September 2006).
“Du français à l'occitan: quand, dans un poème en français, 'un autre chant m'appelle' (Marcelle Delpastre) ” Revue des Langues Romanes 109:1 (2005): 141-63.
“Golden Silence: Calelhon's Voice” Women In French Studies 11 (2003): 38-49.
“ Pig Tales : Beauty Is a Beast” International Fiction Review 30: 1-2 (2003): 4-59.
Selected list of courses taught at Brock University
- FREN 2F03 – Literature and Culture: The French-Speaking World
- FREN 4P12 – French Language and Literature of the Middle Ages
- FREN 4P20 – Sixteenth-Century Literature
- SCLA 5P69 – Disability in Literature and the Arts: Sites of Resistance
Departmental Events
Polyglot: Braille / Babel Babbles. Let's See?
April 12, 2013 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
MLLC "Brown Bag" 2013 Film Series - March 7 to April 9
March 7, 2013 - 12:00pm - April 9, 2013 - 2:00pm
2013 SCLA Colloquium
April 2, 2013 - 1:00pm - 5:00pm



