Sara Bédard-Goulet

Sara Bédard-Goulet is Professor of Romance Studies at the University of Tartu. Her main research interests in the field of contemporary French-language literature include reader-response theories; ecocriticism and geopoetics; literature and psychoanalysis. She has worked extensively on the novels of French author Jean Echenoz and the novels, plays and autobiographical narratives by Quebec author Michel Tremblay. She is also interested in contemporary art and currently developing a research-creation approach to research.

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Selected publications:

• Bédard-Goulet, Sara (2021). Carte blanche to Travel Narrative: Philippe Vasset’s Un livre blanc. Journeys. The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing, 22 (1), 39−55. 
• Bédard-Goulet, Sara (2021). 14 or the Missing Arm: Ontological Instability of the French Contemporary Novel in Jean Echenoz’s Work. In: Galis, Polly; Tomlinson, Maria & Wimbush, Antonia (Ed.). Queer(y)ing Bodily Norms in Francophone Culture: Transformation, Fragmentation and Aestheticization (167−186). Bern: Peter Lang. (Modern French Identities).
• Bédard-Goulet, Sara (2020). Usages de l’image cinématographique dans Les Grandes blondes de Jean Echenoz. Études françaises, 56 (2), 121−135. 
• Bédard-Goulet, Sara (2020). Cauliflowers and Plane Trees: Cultivated Vegetal in Le Méridien de Greenwich (1979) by Jean Echenoz. L'esprit créateur, 60 (4), 121−133.
• Bédard-Goulet, Sara & Vinot, Frédéric (2019). L’événement de spectature et l’image cinématographique dans Les Vues animées de Michel Tremblay. Synergies - Pays riverains de la Baltique, 49−60.
• Bédard-Goulet, Sara (2018). Distante familiarité du lieu mythique dans l'œuvre de Michel Tremblay. Vanessa Courville, George Desmeules and Christiane Lahaie. Les Territoires imaginaires: lieu et mythe dans la littérature québécoise (97−109). Montréal: L'Instant même.

More publications and information in the Estonian Research Information System.

Research clusters:

• Contemporary Literature, Society and Cultural Practices of Representation in Modern and Contemporary Literature

Contact: sara.bedard-goulet@ut.ee
 

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