Severine Genieys-Kirk

Dr Séverine Genieys-Kirk is a Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies at the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures' Department for European Languages and Culture. Over the last two decades, she has been an active member of several international research groups, such as SIEFAR, EU-DARIAH's Women in History, and The Center for New Historia. Her current research interests are in the field of early modern European literature, with particular focus on:

• early modern women’s writing in France and England (e.g Mary Wroth, Madeleine de Scudéry, Eliza Haywood, Madeleine-Angélique de Gomez, Ann Thicknesse)
• translation studies (more specifically literary migrations in the 17th- and 18th- centuries, including parodies and adaptations of novels in the long eighteenth century)
• the history of women's writing
• interaction between literature and the visual arts from the Renaissance to the present day, with a particular interest in Baroque/ Rococo aesthetics

Séverine's recent publications include:

• The filmic legacy of 'Queen Christina': Mika Kaurismäki's Girl King (2015) and Bertrand Tavernier's cinematic 'Amazons' in D'Artagnan's Daughter (1994) and The Princess of Montpensier (2010). In J. North, K. C. Alvestad, & E. Woodacre (Eds.), Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers: Gender, Sex and Power in Popular Culture (1 ed., pp. 215-237). (Queenship and Power). Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68771-1_11 (2018)
• The turbulent seas of cultural sisterhood: French connections in Mary Hays's "Female Biography (1803)". Women's Writing, 25(2), 167-185. https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2017.1387337 (2018)
• The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France: Women Writ, Women Writing. By Domna C. Stanton. Farnham: Ashgate. 2014. 255 pp. x + £60. ISBN 978-1-4724-4201-7. Modern Language Review, 111(1), 251-252. https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.111.1.0251