Mrs Agnès Calatayud

Overview

Biography

Agnès Calatayud joined Birkbeck College in October 1991 as a Lecturer in French.  Prior to joining Birkbeck, she was Visiting Lecturer in various universities in London.

Highlights

• "Un beau viveur et un délicat vivant": Le baron de Besenval, courtisan et collectionneur, à travers son iconographie. Dalhousie French Studies , ISSN 0711-8813.(2020)

• An illustrated guide to unfamous places: Satoshi Miki’s Adrift in Tokyo (2007). Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies 19 (2), ISSN 1059-440X. (2019)

• The self-portrait in French cinema: reflections on theory and on Agnès Varda’s "Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse". In: Edwards, N. and Hubbell, A.L. and Miller, A. (eds.) Textual and Visual Selves: Photography, Film, and Comic Art in French Autobiography. Lincoln, U.S.: University of Nebraska Press, pp. 209-234. ISBN 9780803236318.

Qualifications

• Maîtrise ès Langues et Civilisations des Pays Anglophones, , Université François Rabelais (Tours, France), 1988
• M.A. in French Literature, Birkbeck College (University of London), 1991

Administrative responsibilities

• French Language Coordinator

ORCID

0000-0002-0116-8468

Research

Research interests

• 18th-century culture, literature, art and society
• Contemporary world cinema
• Representations of France’s colonial past in contemporary popular culture,

Research overview

 Agnès Calatayud is a Lecturer in French in the School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her research focuses on contemporary World cinema and on representations of France’s colonial past in modern popular culture. She has published extensively in both French and English on filmmakers such as Agnès Varda, Abbas Kiarostami and Satoshi Miki, exploring questions of authorship, memory and the politics of representation. Her work also examines a wide range of cultural productions, including French colonial songs and post-colonial cinematic practices, with a particular interest in self-portraiture in contemporary cinema. In addition to her film scholarship, Calatayud has an interest in eighteenth-century art and has published an article on Henri-Pierre Danloux’s portrait of the Baron de Besenval, held at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Her articles have appeared in Studies in French Cinema, Studies in European Cinema, Dalhousie French Studies and ejcjs.

Supervision and teaching

Teaching

Teaching modules

• French 3 (Level 4) (ARCL105S4)
• French 1 (AREL062S4)

Publications