Dr Peter Poiana

• Appointments

  Date	Position	Institution name
  1995	Senior Lecturer	University of Adelaide

• Education

  Date	Institution name	Country	Title
  1986 - 1990	The University of Provence	France	PhD

• Research Interests

  Comparative Literature Studies Cultural Theory French Language Literature in French Poststructuralism Psychoanalytic Philosophy

• Journals

  Year	Citation
  2020	Poiana, P. (2020). Œuvide! Œuvide! Verbalization and Corporality in the Poetry of Christian Prigent. French Forum, 45(1), 111-126. DOI
  2019	Poiana, P. (2019). Choses d'apparat: The poetics of dress in Michel Leiris's L'Afrique fantôme. International Journal of Francophone Studies, 22(3), 213-231. DOI
  2019	Poiana, P. (2019). The hyperbolic logic of constraint in the poetic works of Jacques Jouet. Sub-Stance, 48(2), 65-80.
  2019	Poiana, P. B. (2019). Literality and Discursive Reframing in the Works of Nathalie Quintane. Symposium: a quarterly journal in Modern Literatures, 72(4), 228-238. DOI
  2019	Poiana, P. (2019). The Timelessness of Proust: Reflections on In Search of Lost Time by Charles R. Embry & Glenn Hughes (eds.) (book review),. voegelinview.
  2019	Poiana, P. (2019). The Hyperbolic Logic of Constraint in the Poetic Works of Jacques Jouet. SubStance: A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism, 48(149), 65-80.
  2017	Poiana, P. (2017). Rethinking Beginnings as Subjective Loss in Narrative and the Theatre. Angelaki - Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 22(4), 35-47. DOI
  2017	Poiana, P. B. (2017). Christian Prigent’s Mimological Machine: Le Monde est marrant and La Vie moderne. Irish Journal of French Studies, 17(1), 125-141. DOI
  2015	Poiana, P. (2015). Jacques Dupin's lacunary poetics: enunciative depropriation in 'La Double jarre'. Journal of Romance Studies, 15(2), 40-60. DOI
  2013	Poiana, P. (2013). Violence and representation in the works of Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris. MLN-Modern Language Notes, 128(4), 900-916. DOI
  2013	Poiana, P. (2013). The passion for origins in the epic poems of Édouard Glissant. International Journal of Francophone Studies, 16(1-2), 151-165. DOI
  2013	Poiana, P. (2013). Figuring art in Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's Ecrits sur l'art. French Cultural Studies, 24(4), 430-440. DOI
  2013	Poiana, P. (2013). Dangerous identifications: an exchange between Jacques Derrida and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. Angelaki, 18(2), 91-104. DOI Scopus3
  2013	Poiana, P. (2013). The traumatic origins of representation. Continental Philosophy Review, 46(1), 1-19. DOI
  2010	Poiana, P. (2010). The discursive and narrative foundations of scandal. Cultural Critique, 76(76), 28-48. Scopus3
  2009	Poiana, P. (2009). The On-tology of Beckett's Nohow On. Sub-Stance, 38(2), 136-153. DOI Scopus2
  2008	Poiana, P. (2008). Seduction and scandal: two kinds of relation with the thing. Angelaki, 13(3), 53-65. DOI Scopus1
  2007	Poiana, P. (2007). Narrative destiny in self-writing: Michel Leiris' La 'Regle du Jeu'. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 43(3), 261-276. DOI
  2007	Poiana, P. (2007). The Order of Mimesis in Saint-John Perse's Vents. Neophilologus, 91(1), 33-49. DOI Scopus1
  2005	Poiana, P. (2005). Aggressivity in self writing - Colette's Etoile Vesper and Michel Leiris' Fourbis. French Forum, 30(2), 121-136. DOI
  2003	Poiana, P. (2003). Figures of scandal in the later narratives of Marguerite Duras. Romanic review, 93(3), 323-340. Scopus1
  2000	Poiana, P. (2000). Thoughts on rhyme in Robert Desnos. Australian Journal of French Studies, 37(1), 52-71.
  1999	Poiana, P. (1999). Narrative identity. Literature and Aesthetics, 9, 99-121.
  1995	Poiana, P. (1995). Le style apocalyptique de 'Colline'. La Revue des Lettres Modernes, 6, 17-44.
  1995	Poiana, P. (1995). La métaphysique du style dans 'Le chant du monde' de Jean Giono. Revue Jean Giono, 43, 51-75.
  1995	Poiana, P. B. (1995). Ethics and Literary Criticism: Hillis Miller, Sartre and Jauss. Literature and Aesthetics, 5, 46-60.
  1995	Poiana, P. (1995). L' Acacia de Claude Simon: la voie du sensible. The Romanic Review, 86(4), 721-734.
  1994	Poiana, P. B. (1994). Figure et style: concepts esthétiques dans le théorie du discours de Gérard Genette. Littérature, 95(3), 23-36. DOI

• Books

  Year	Citation
  2015	Edwards, N. J., McCann, B., & Poiana, P. (Eds.) (2015). Framing French Culture. Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press. DOI
  2003	Cristaudo, W., & Poiana, P. (2003). Great ideas in the western literary canon. 4501 Forbes Bvd, Suite 200 Lanham, Maryland 20706: University Press of America, Inc.
  2000	Ethique et littérature (2000). .

• Book Chapters

  Year	Citation
  2015	Poiana, P. (2015). Art and origin: Bataille and Blanchot's return to Lascaux. In N. Edwards, B. McCann, & P. Poiana (Eds.), Framing French Culture (1 ed., pp. 275-291). Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press. DOI
  2015	Edwards, N., McCann, B., & Poiana, P. (2015). The doubling of the frame - Visual art and discourse. In N. Edwards, B. McCann, & P. Poiana (Eds.), Framing French Culture (1 ed., pp. 3-25). Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press. DOI
  2008	Poiana, P. (2008). The competing Caribbean utopias of Édouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau. In John West Sooby (Ed.), Nowhere is perfect: French and francophone utopias/dystopias (pp. 168-179). United States: University of Delaware Press.
  2005	Poiana, P. (2005). The subject as symptom in Nausea. In A. Rolls, & E. Rechniewski (Eds.), Sartre's Nausea: Text, Context, Intertext (pp. 77-90). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Rodopi.
  2003	Poiana, P. (2003). Valeurs et impressions dans Swann. In Andre Not (Ed.), L'Enthousiaste lecteur - Mlanges offerts Jacques Chabot (pp. 156-166). La Calade, 3120 route d'Avignon, 13090 Aix-en-Provence: Edisud.
  1999	Poiana, P. B. (1999). Style et imagination historique dans Angelo. In J. Chabot (Ed.), Giono romancier actes (pp. 429-442). Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l'Université de Provence.
  1995	Poiana, P. B. (1995). Editing as Techne: a comparison with Aristotelian rhetoric. In M. Blackman, F. Muecke, & M. Sankey (Eds.), The Textual Condition: Rhetoric and Editing (pp. 25-33). Sydney: Local Consumption Publications.
  1992	Poiana, P. B. (1992). L'Ethique de la lecture: un roi sans divertissement. In J. Chabot (Ed.), Obliques: numéro spécial Giono (pp. 89-99). Nyons, France: Presses des Baronnies.
  1990	Poiana, P. B. (1990). Temps et figuration dans Le Moulin de Pologne. In C. Morzewski (Ed.), Les Styles de Giono (pp. 257-266). Lille: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion.

I teach several courses in French Language and Literature, in the Department of French Studies.

French Literature courses include La Littérature engagée, La Belle époque, Le Monde francophone à travers ses textes, Le Théâtre de l'Absurde, Samuel Beckett.

• Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2020	Co-Supervisor	The Blackness of the Sun: An Exploration of Nihilism and Meaning in the works of Albert Camus and Samuel Beckett	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Gemma Lynn Parker

• Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2018 - 2021	Co-Supervisor	Poétique du neutre et question de l'Être dans l’oeuvre poétique d'Andrée Chedid et de Jeanne Benguigui	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Melanie Maillot
  2015 - 2019	Co-Supervisor	Parole De Narrateurs: Figures De L'Enonciation Dans Le Recit Francais Moderne	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Ms Marianne Braux
  2011 - 2015	Principal Supervisor	L'EXCLUSION DES FEMMES DE LA VIE POLITIQUE : LA REPRESENTATION DES FEMMES POLITIQUES EN TANT QUE CANDIDATES A LA MAGISTRATURE SUPREME DANS LA CINQUIEME REPUBLIQUE. The Exclusion of Women from the World of Politics: The Representation of Female Politicians Running for the Highest Office in the Fifth French Republic.	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Robert John Armstrong
  2010 - 2014	Co-Supervisor	Subversion, innovacion y marginalidad en la obra de Roberto Bolano.	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Israel Aaron Holas
  2009 - 2011	Principal Supervisor	La Politique de la Diversité: la Nomination aux Postes de Gouvernement des Personnes de Couleur Sous la Présidence de Jacques Chirac et de Nicolas Sarkozy	Master of Arts	Master	Full Time	Mr Robert John Armstrong
  2004 - 2009	Principal Supervisor	L'Autre c?t? la m?moire collective dans trois romans d'Amin Maalouf	Master of Arts	Master	Part Time	Ms Catherine Ann Bagot

• Memberships

  Date	Role	Membership	Country
  1996 - ongoing	—	Australian Society for French Studies	Australia

• Position: Senior Lecturer in French
• Phone: 83135632
• Email: peter.poiana@adelaide.edu.au
• Fax: 8313 4341
• Campus: North Terrace
• Building: Napier, floor 8
• Room: 8 04
• Org Unit: French Studies