Research and Teaching Interests
A specialist in contemporary and 20th century French literature, Peter Dorrington has most recently published "Esther Tellermann : de l'effraction au refrain" in the influential French journal Écritures contemporaines (2004), "Solidarité et sourire : Yves Leclair" in Contemporary French Poetics (Rodopi, 2002) and "Pascal Commère et l'acte de consigner le monde" in La Poésie française, aujourd'hui (Université de Tours, 2001). In 2003, he also defended his Ph.D. dissertation entitled Visées, modalités et portées de la poésie française contemporaine : Bancquart, Commère, Leclair, Pinson et Tellermann. He is interested, too, in francophone aesthetic creation around the world: he has contributed to the forthcoming French and Francophone Art Since 1980 (Rodopi) an article entitled "'Trottoirs d'Afrique' d'Hervé Télémaque : métaphore et métissage", a study in which he examines paintings shown by the seminal Haitian artist Télémaque during his 2001 exhibition at the Galerie Louis Carré (Paris); he has begun exploring recent Caribbean fiction in a study entitled "Maryse Condé's Histoire de la femme cannibale as a Response to the Poetics of Relation of Édouard Glissant", a book chapter which has been accepted for inclusion in a critical anthology to be published by Expressions culturelles du monde francophone, a University of Regina Transdisciplinary Project; and he is particularly interested in artistic and literary explorations of francophone culture in Acadia and western Canada. Long fascinated by the French literature of the 19th century, he has recently developed and given "La Ville dans la littérature et les arts", a third year undergraduate course in which he examines urban experience in the Paris of 1848 1900, as interpreted by artists and writers such as Baudelaire, Degas, Maupassant, Toulouse Lautrec and Zola