Susan Bainbrigge

Dr Susan Bainbrigge is a Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies, at the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures’ Department of European Languages and Cultures. Susan’s research interests include:

• French and Francophone Studies
• 20th and 21st century French and Francophone Fiction, especially women writers
• Simone de Beauvoir
• Autobiography Studies
• Francophone Belgian Literature and Culture
• Psychoanalysis and/in Literature
• Representations of the Therapeutic Encounter/Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma in Literature

Her noteworthy publications include:

• Therapeutic encounters in Francophone Belgian writings: On chaos and creativity. In Narratives of the Therapeutic Encounter: Psychoanalysis, Talking Therapies and Creative Practice (pp. 102-127). Cambridge Scholars Press (2020).
• Amélie Nothomb: Authorship, Identity and Narrative Practice (Peter Lang Publishing, 2003) with Jeanette den Toonder
• Francographies: Identité et altérité dans les espaces francophones européens (Peter Lang Publishing, 2010) with Joy Charnley and Caroline Verdier
• Culture and Identity in Belgian Francophone Writing: Dialogue, Diversity and Displacement (Peter Lang Publishing, 2008)