Edited Books

2022: Chareyron, Romain. Trans Identities in the French Media: Representation, Visibility, Recognition. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 196pp.

2019: Chareyron, Romain and Gilles Viennot. Screening Youth. Contemporary French and Francophone Cinema. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 264pp.

Book chapters

2022: "Scratching the Surface: For a reappraisal of Violence in Contemporary French Cinema", The Palgrave Handbook of Violence in Film and the Media. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMIllan, pp.229-256.

2022: “Introduction. Trans Identities in the French Media”, Trans Identities in the French Media: Representation, Visibility, Recognition. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, pp.1-21.

2019: Chareyron, Romain and Gilles Viennot. “Disparate Lives: Representations of Youth in French and Francophone Cinema”, Screening Youth: French and Francophone Cinema. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp.1-17.

2016: “Entre utopie et dystopie: Espace urbain et immigration illégale dans les films Welcome (Philippe Lioret, 2009) et Le Havre (Aki Kaurismaki, 2012)” , Racines et déracinements au grand écran: trajectoires migratoires dans le cinéma français du XXIème siècle. Eds. Marianne Bessy and Carole Salmon, Brill/Rodopi, coll. “Francopolyphonies,” pp.130-147.

2015: “Haptic vision and the Experience of Difference in Agnès Varda’s Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse (2000)”, The Cinema of Sensations. Ed. Ágnes Pethö. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.73-86.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

2023: “Christine and the Queens: ‘Faire corps’ avec les mots.” Contemporary French Civilization - Special Issue: "Christine and the Queens, Identities, Queerness, Frenchness", vol.8 n°4 pp.313-334.

2021: “Créer pour mieux voir: Image(s) du sida et enjeux de la representation dans 120 battements par minute.” Hybrida – Special issue: SIDA/S-40 ans, n°3: pp.35-60.

2021: “Le Handicap dans le cinéma français contemporain: Quelles images? Quels discours?” Nouvelles études francophones, 36(1-2): 9-28.

2019: “Off the Beaten Path: Non-Metropolitan Representations of Homosexuality in Three French Films.” Screen Bodies. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Experience, Perception, and Display, 3(2): pp.17-38.

2019: “Sébastien Lifshitz: Cinéaste des identités.” Modern and Contemporary France – special issue: LGBTQ Politics and Identities in France Since 1968, 27(2): pp.185-203.

2017: “Lorsque le corps se fait langage : Aporie du discours et vérité des corps dans le cinéma français contemporain”, Les Cahiers LINGUATEK  (University Gheorghe Asachi, Iaşi, Romania) n°1-2: pp.198-209.

2016: “La Chair des sentiments: hapticité et mise en scène du désir dans La Vie d’Adèle (2013)”, “Regards sur les films d’Abdellatif Kechiche”, CELAAN (Revue du centre d’études des littératures et des arts d’Afrique du Nord), vol.XIII n°1: pp.113-129.

2015: “The Body Out-of-Bounds: Trauma, Corporeality and Representation in Marina de Van’s Ne te retourne pas/Don’t Look Back (2009)”, Chimères: A Journal of French Literature and Culture, vol.XXXII: pp.51-60.

2014: “La Relecture de la figure du vampire dans le film Backstage (Emmanuelle Bercot, 2004)”, New Zealand Journal of French Studies. Numéro spécial: Le Sang/Blood, 34(2): pp.97-108.

2013: “Haptic vision and the Experience of Difference in Agnès Varda’s Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse (2000)”, Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Film & Media Studies, vol.7: pp.83-96. 

2013: “Comprendre par les sens: Pour une approche tactile de L’Apollonide (Bertrand Bonello, 2011)”, Revue Entrelacs, n°10: pp.2-9.

2013: “Horror and the Body: Understanding the reworking of the Genre in Marina de Van’s Dans ma peau (2001)”, Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Studies – Scandals of Horror, 4(1): pp.70-81.

2011: Gural-Migdal, Anna et Romain Chareyron, “Du Cinéma comme outil d’apprentissage de la langue à la langue comme outil d’apprentissage du cinéma”, AQEFLS: Le Cinéma comme outil pédagogique en français langue seconde et étrangère, vol.28: pp.7-27.

2009: Gural-Migdal, Anna & Romain Chareyron. “The ‘Ghost Image’ of Horror and Pornography in Michael Haneke’s La Pianiste (2001)”, Studies in French Cinema, 11(11): pp.57-70.

2007: “La Petite Lili ou la fracture du réel”, Excavatio, 22(1-2): pp.250-262.

Books reviews

2019: Little Mosque on the Prairie and the Paradoxes of Cultural Translation by Kyle Conway. University of Toronto Press 88 (3), pp.178-179.

2015: Film and the City: The Urban Imaginary in Canadian Cinema by George Melnyk. American Review of Canadian Studies, vol.45 n°3, pp.381-382.

Presentations 

Invited keynote speaker

2019: “Territoires et sexualités: Repenser la diversité sexuelle dans le cinéma français contemporain”, Conférence de l’ACFAS, University of Saskatchewan, January 24^th 2019.

2018: “Le queer peut-il encore être transgressif? Repenser les représentations des populations LGBTQ dans les œuvres de Sébastien Lifshitz et Alain Guiraudie”, Journée d’études Trangression(s), déviance(s), norme(s) et limite(s) dans les arts et les lettres, Département d’anglais, langues et cultures, Mount Royal University, Calgary, April 26 ^th 2018.

2013: “Le genre en question dans le cinéma français contemporain”, Brown Bag Lunch Series, French & Italian Dept., University of Kansas, November 22, 2013.

Panels organized and chaired

2022: “Disability studies in French Cinema”, NeMLA 2022, Baltimore, MD, March 10-13.

2020: “Trans Identities in the French Media”, NeMLA 2020, Boston, MA, March 3-5.

2016: “The Representation of Youth in Contemporary French Cinema”, NeMLA 2016, Hartford, CT, March 17- 20.

Contributed presentations

2022: “Au revoir là-haut: Spectacularisation de la différence et regard critique sur le handicap dans la France d’après-guerre”, NeMLA 2022, Baltimore, MD, March 10-13.

2021: “Isabelle Huppert à l’écran: le trouble comme mode d’existence”, Women in French – “Femmes dérangées, femmes dérangeantes”, Maynooth University, May 6-9. 

2021: “Adolescence and Disability: The (Slowly) Changing Face of French Television”, NeMLA 2021, March 10-14.

2020: “Scratching the Surface: Body Horror, Femininity and Self-Empowerment in Contemporary French Cinema”, NeMLA 2020, Boston, MA, March 3-5.

2019: “Disability Studies and Contemporary French Cinema: Innovations and Pitfalls”, PAMLA 2019, San Diego, CA, Nov.13-Nov.18.

2019: “Off the Beaten Path: Non-Metropolitan Representations of Gay Male Identity in French Cinema”, Straight to the Front Row: Investigating Contemporary Western Gay Male Cinema, The University of Northampton (UK), February 16-18.

2018: “Trans Identities in the French Media: Diversity vs Acceptability”, SAMLA 2018 – Trans Identities: Fighting for the Margins, Birmingham, AL, Nov.2- Nov.4.

2018: “Seeing and Being Touched : Sensory Involvement and the Emotional Power of the Image in Agnès Varda’s Documentaries” – Agnès Varda’s Gaze, NeMLA 2018, Pittsburgh, April 12-15.

2016: “Portraying Lives in Transition: Céline Sciamma and the Transcription of Experience”, Studies in French Cinema Conference – “Childhood and adolescence”, King’s College London, June 30.

2015: “The Complex Notion of Identity in the Films of Xavier Dolan”, A Humanities of Inclusion, Humanities Roundtable, Washington State University, February 17.

2015: “Gender as/at play in Céline Sciamma’s Tomboy (2011)”, The Queer Child in Contemporary Literature and Culture, NeMLA 2015, Toronto, April 30^th – May 3.

2013: “Displacement and the construction of transgender identity in Xavier Dolan’s Laurence Anyways ”, Travel, Foreign Language Film Conference VI, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, October 31- November 3.

2013: “Entre utopie et dystopie: Espace urbain et immigration illégale dans les films Welcome (Philippe Lioret, 2009) et Le Havre (Aki Kaurismaki, 2012)”, Représentation(s) de la migration dans le cinéma français contemporain, NeMLA 2013, Tufts University, Boston, March 21- 24.

2012: “Haptic Vision and the Experience of Difference in Agnès Varda’s Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse (2000)”, The Cinema of Sensations: XIVth International Film & Media Studies Conference in Transylvania, Sapientia University, Cluj-Napoca, May 25- 27.

2011: “Le Détournement des codes de l'horrifique dans le film Dans ma peau (Marina de Van, 2001)”, Written in Blood, University of Pennsylvania 2011 GRA Conference, Philadelphia, March 19.

2009: Gural-Migdal, Anna and Romain Chareyron, “The Provocative Ambiguity of the Image in Michael Haneke’s The Piano Teacher (2001)”. Panel on “Provocation and Anger in the Cinema of Michael Haneke” (in association with the Wirth Institute), Dimic Lecture Series, University of Alberta, March 11.

2006: “La Petite Lili ou la fracture du réel,” AIZEN/CUNY International Conference on Realism and Naturalism in Film Studies, City University of New York, Graduate Center, New York, May 5- 6.  

Student supervision

Tenkorang, Calvin, M.A.: “Lorsque les images prennent soin de nous : Études du ‘care’ et productions audiovisuelles françaises contemporaines” (project-based thesis) – in progress.

Appiah, Lord, M.A.: “La Représentation de la femme sénégalaise dans trois films d’Ousmane Sembène: Entre tradition et modernité” (project-based thesis) – completed April 2021.

Azubogu Chizoba, M.A.: ”La Représentation de la classe ouvrière dans quatre films de Robert Guédiguian” (project-based thesis) – completed April 2020.

Courses taught

Beginning French I (FREN 103)

An introduction to the basic grammatical concepts of French. Instruction will be based on the communicative approach, stressing the four competencies of language learning: speaking, listening, reading and writing.

Stardom in French Cinema (FREN 160) (online course- taught in English) FALL 2023 - WINTER 2024

This class is designed to offer students an introduction to the field of “star studies” by focusing on some of the most prominent actors and actresses in the history of French cinema. Through the range of films and texts selected for the class, students will get familiar with some of the most prominent films in the history of French cinema. They will also develop an appreciation for the aesthetic qualities of the medium, as they will be asked to approach film from a narrative and visual perspective in order to discuss and analyze the specificities and most salient features of stardom in a French context.

Advanced French I (FREN 212)

A French language course that builds on skills acquired in FREN 122, 125 or equivalent. Greater emphasis is placed on the practical application of grammar through reading, writing and discussions.

Masterpieces of French Literature (FREN 220)

An introduction to literary studies in French. The course will combine two elements: how to approach a French literary text, and a general introduction to French literature. It will study a selected number of French authors from the different genres and the various periods of French literature.

French Film Classics (FREN 224) (online course)

An introduction to some of France's most prominent films and directors, from the beginnings to the present time. Students will learn about the most significant aesthetic trends of French cinema and acquire the appropriate vocabulary to discuss specific aspects of mise-en-scène, such as scenery, lighting and framing. Students will be able to identify the majors aesthetic innovations that shaped French cinema, as well as the directors whose vision helped define French cinema. Some of the topics covered will include the silent era, the Avant-Garde, Poetic Realism, the New Wave and cinéma du look. This course will present students with some emblematic directors (François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda) and more newly-established ones (Mia Hansen-Løve). This course is taught in French. This is an online course.

Culture and Society in France (FREN 252)

A study of the cultural evolution in France (history, politics, religion, education, language, song, cinema, culinary arts, etc.) with emphasis on contemporary society (from World War II to the present). This course will tackle societal issues such as – but not limited to – sexuality, family, immigration, racism, or the healthcare system, with a view to highlight the uniqueness as well as some of the idiosyncrasies of French society. Class time will mostly be devoted to discussions and debates.

French Literature and Film in the Maghreb (FREN 360)

This course will examine the evolution of Francophone literature and cinema in North Africa, from the colonial era to the present. We will proceed chronologically to discuss the various generations of artists who used literature and cinema to bring into light socioeconomic as well as political points of contention such as French colonization of North Africa, the Algerian War of Independence, decolonization, emigration, and sexuality. We will approach these topics by reading literary as well as historical writings. We will also study films from some of North Africa’s most prominent directors.

Youth in French and Francophone Cinema (FREN 361)

This course will focus on the representation of youth in a broad way (childhood, adolescence, young adults) in French cinema from the 1930s to the present time. We will watch and discuss both classic French films and lesser-known works to explore the role that cinema has given to youth throughout its history. Through the topic of youth, we will explore the main societal changes that have shaped French society of the 20th and 21st century. Students will also learn the necessary analytical tools to approach a film from a narrative and aesthetic perspective.

Maghrebi Culture Through Literature and Film (FREN 860) (graduate course)

This course is designed to offer students an insight into the culture of the Maghreb, through the study of some of its most prominent literary figures and film directors. This course will also provide students with important historical information regarding Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco.

The Other France: Contemporary French Cinema and Society (FREN 861) (graduate course)

This course is designed to offer students an insight into the culture of the Maghreb, through the study of some of its most prominent literary figures and film directors. This course will also provide students with important historical information regarding Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco.

Contemporary French and Francophone cinema Disability studies Film genres Gender and sexuality Youth in film

Research project: "Images de la déficience dans le cinéma français"

2005-2010: University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada)

Ph. D. in Francophone culture and contemporary French cinema, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies Department. Thesis title: Les Emprunts au genre horrifique et pornographique dans le cinéma français contemporain. Supervisor: Pr. Anna Gural-Migdal.

2003-2004: Université Toulouse-Le Mirail (Toulouse, France)

2^nd year of MA (French D.E.A.) in English (magna cum laude). Thesis title: The Meanings of Space in Elia Kazan’s A Streetcar Named Desire. Supervisor: Pr. Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard.

2001-2003: Université Toulouse-Le Mirail (Toulouse, France)

1st year of MA (French Maîtrise) in English (cum laude). Thesis title: The Representation of Cinema in Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard. Supervisor: Pr. Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard.