Bengt Novén
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Name and title: Bengt Novén
Workplace: Department of Romance Studies and Classics Länk till annan webbplats.
About me
DEUG, Lettres modernes, Université Stendhal (Grenoble III), 1985. Master’s degree in French and Swedish, Uppsala University, 1988. DEA de Lettres et Arts, Université de Provence, 1990. PhD in Romance Languages, Uppsala University, 1996.
Former positions as associate professor in French at Uppsala University, Mälardalen University and Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Full professor in French at Stockholm University since 2006.
Head of the Department of Language Education (2009-2011). Dean of the Faculty of Humanities (2012-2017). Administrative director for Accelerator, Art space at Stockholm University (2018-2020).
Bachelor’s level: Modern French literature, oral communication, francophone literature from Northern Africa, literary theory and method, French Nobel laureats in literature.
Supervision of Bachelor’s and Master’s theses in French literature
Sophie Yvert-Hamon: “Éthos, representation de l’Autre et argumentation dans le discours de controverse religieuse de Philippe Duplessis-Mornay”
Current research project: Visuality, sight, cognition and subjectivity in early modern French literature (Marguerite de Navarre, François Rabelais, Clément Marot, Michel Montaigne).
Ecocritical perspectives in modern French poetry (René Char and Francis Ponge).
Representation of Nature in La Sepmaine by Guillaume de Saluste du Bartas (1544-1590).
Sweden’s correspondent for RHLF (Revue de l’Histoire Littéraire de la France)
Member of SHLF (Société de l’Histoire Littéraire de la France)