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Positions held:
Senior Lecturer,
Department of Cultures & Languages
Admissions Coordinator,
Department of Cultures & Languages
MA Programme Director: SCLACS,
Department of Cultures & Languages
Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Teaching
Teaching modules
Studying Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies in Modern Languages (ARCL059S7) Research Skills Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies (Modern Languages) (ARCL061Z7) Imagining the Nation (ARCL064S7) Memory and History (ARCL065S7) The Twentieth-Century French Humanist Novel: Malraux and Camus (ARCL114H6) French 5 (AREL072S6) Imagining France: An Introduction to French Studies (LNLN022S4) Representations of Love, Desire and Sexuality (Level 5) (LNLN024S5) French Thought: from the Renaissance to Postmodernity (LNLN028S5)
Publications
Publications
Article
Catani, Damian
(2016)
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, literary genius or national pariah? Defining moral parameters for influential cultural figures, post- Charlie Hebdo .
French Cultural Studies
27
(3),
pp. 268-278.
ISSN 0957-1558.
Catani, Damian
(2014)
Hannah Arendt reconsidered: collaboration and the banality of evil in Jonathan Littell's "The Kindly Ones" .
Sociology Study
4
(8),
pp. 661-672.
ISSN 2159‐5526.
Catani, Damian
(2014)
Re/deconstructing the rimbaud myth: Kerouac and Mallarmé .
AmeriQuests
11
(1),
ISSN 1553-4316.
Catani, Damian
(2013)
The "Spleen" and "Ideal" of opium: Baudelaire and Thomas de Quincey .
Dix-Neuf
17
(3),
pp. 237-250.
ISSN 1478-7318.
Catani, Damian
(2013)
Book review: Bourdieu and literature by John R. W. Speller .
French Studies
67
(4),
pp. 579-580.
ISSN 0016-1128.
Catani, Damian
(2012)
Modernity, evil and ethics: a Sartrean and Bataillean reading of Baudelaire’s ‘Le Jeu’ .
Dix-Neuf
16
(3),
pp. 260-270.
ISSN 14787318.
Catani, Damian
(2012)
Book Review: Fin de baudelaire: autopsie d'une œuvre sans nom by Jean Louis Cornille .
French Studies
66
(4),
pp. 569-570.
ISSN 0016-1128.
Catani, Damian
(2009)
Book review: between Baudelaire and Mallarmé: voice, conversation and music .
French Studies
65
(3),
pp. 396-397.
ISSN 0016-1128.
Catani, Damian
(2007)
Notions of evil in Baudelaire .
Modern Language Review
102
(4),
pp. 990-1007.
ISSN 0026-7937.
Catani, Damian
(1999)
Consumerism and the discourse of fashion in Mallarmé's 'La Dernière Mode' .
Mots Pluriels
10,
Book Section
Catani, Damian
(2019)
Rediscovering Beckford's 'satiric gravity': Mallarme's rehabilitation of Vathek .
In: Louth, Charlie and McGuinness, Patrick (eds.)
Gravity and Grace - Essays for Roger Pearson .
Legenda (General Series).
Oxford, UK: MHRA.
pp. 112-129.
ISBN 9781781887875.
Catani, Damian
(2018)
Mallarme, «Vathek» et L'Orient .
In: Millan, G. (ed.)
Mallarmé à Tournon et au-delà .
Paris, France: Classiques Garnier.
ISBN 9782406066699.
Catani, Damian
(2016)
From victims to perpetrators: the banality of evil in Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones .
In: Dihal, K. (ed.)
From Banality to Genocide: Perspectives on Evil .
Oxford, UK: Inter-Disciplinary Press.
pp. 3-24.
ISBN 9781848884540.
(In Press)
Catani, Damian
(2014)
'Vice urbain et colonialisme dans Mademoiselle Bistouri et La Belle Dorothee' .
In: Guyaux, A. and Scepi, A. (eds.)
Lire 'Le Spleen de Paris' de Baudelaire .
Paris: Presses de l'Universite Sorbonne.
pp. 25-33.
ISBN 9782840509738.
Catani, Damian
(2011)
The French Revolution: historical necessity or historical evil? Terror and slavery in Hugo’s Quatrevingt-treize and Confiant’s "L’Archet du colonel" .
In: Evans, D. and Griffiths, K. (eds.)
Institutions and Power in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Culture .
Faux Titre.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Rodopi.
pp. 51-68.
ISBN 9789042033849.
Catani, Damian
(2005)
Capitalism reviewed: the perspectives of Villiers, Zola and Mallarmé .
In: Capitanio, S. and Downing, L. and Rowe, P. and White, N. (eds.)
Currencies: Fiscal Fortunes and Cultural Capital in Nineteenth-Century France .
French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.
Peter Lang.
pp. 59-71.
ISBN 9783039105137.
Catani, Damian
(2003)
The poet as democrat: art in relation to consumerism in Mallarmé’s 'La Dernière Mode' .
In: Kinloch, D. and Millan, G. (eds.)
Situating Mallarmé .
French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.
Peter Lang.
pp. 69-83.
ISBN 9783906766188.