Mark Amfreville, from Université de la Sarbonne, will present "Sigmund Freud's Gradiva: The Stone Momentum" on Thursday 13 October at 16:15 in ANT. 5196
Marc Amfreville is Professor emeritus of American Literature at the Sorbonne. He has written numerous articles on XIXth-century authors, most notably on C. B. Brown, Irving, Hawthorne, Bierce and Melville. Some publications also concern XXth-century authors (T. Williams, F. O’Connor, P. Everett, E. Evenson, J.A. Phillips…) He has written three book-length essays on Brown, Melville, Wharton, and one on trauma and literature, entitled Ecrits en souffrance (2009) and edited several collections of articles, most recently one on the representation of trauma (sillages critiques. Revues.org). He is also a psychoanalyst, has run writing workshops in a psychiatric day-care hospital for teenagers and has started publishing papers in that field. He is the translator of about sixty American contemporary novels and has participated in the edition and translation of Melville, Fitzgerald and London’s complete works for the Gallimard “Pléiade” collection.