Dr Carine Fréville

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Carine Fréville is Assistant Lecturer at the University of Kent Paris School of Arts and Culture. Following undergraduate studies in French at London Guildhall University and at the University of Kent at Canterbury, and a MA by research on identity, voice and desire in Violette Leduc’s autobiographical works, she wrote her doctorate on the representations of trauma in the works of Marie Darrieussecq, Malika Mokeddem and Lorette Nobécourt at the Centre d’Études Féminines et d’Études de Genre at the Université Paris VIII. She has published articles on spectrality and mourning in the works of Marie Darrieussecq, the rewriting of traumatic events and on identity and gender issues in the works of Malika Mokeddem, as well as on abortion and maternal violence in the works of Lorette Nobécourt. Together with Ana de Medeiros she has edited a collection of essays entitled Contemporary Women’s Representations of Wounded Bodies and Minds (International Journal of Francophone Studies, 15.2, 2012).