French travellers in Mediterranean lands

Irini Apostolou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Associate Professor of French Cultural History, Department of French Language and Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Paris-Sorbonne University, DEA, PhD 2003.

Areas of Research: Travel writing and iconography, Orientalism, Antiquarianism, History of French Art, Iconography and French Cultural History. Irini Apostolou has mostly worked on eighteenth and nineteenth-century France. Her research examines the relationship between West and East and focuses on the French Travelers perception of the East. She has published L’Orientalisme des voyageurs français au XVIIIe siècle, (PUPS, 2009), elle a publié les Images of Greek Lands in French Press «Le Tour du Monde : journal des voyages» and «A travers le monde» (2012). She was Associate Research Director, Guest Researcher, Fondation Maison Des Sciences de l’HOMME Paris (April, May-June 2019). She is NKUA scientific coordinator for the program E-Belong: Sense of Belonging in Online Learning Environments Erasmus +Programme Key Action 226.

Sylvie Requemora, Aix-Marseillé Université

Professor of French literature (17th c.) at Aix-Marseille Université, Head of the 16-18 group of CIELAM, she studies travel literature from a rhetorical, theoretical, imagological and intercultural perspective. On the visiting faculty at several Universities (Harvard, Limerick, Duke, Toronto, Coimbra, Nagoya, Beijing, Fes), she also supervises PhDs at Middlebury College. Author of Travelling towards modernity. Travel through genres in the 17th century (PUPS) and of critical editions (Regnard’s French Theater and Travels, Classiques Garnier), co-editor of the “Real and imaginary travels” series at Garnier, she leads the Research Center on Travel Literature (CRLV.org).

Hans Färnlöf, Stockholm University

Associate professor of French Literature at the University of Stockholm & PhD in 2000 (Stockholm), with a thesis on Maupassant's short stories. Specialises in French 19th Century literature (especially realism and naturalism), Literary theory, semiotics, genre theory, short story. Widely published in renowned reviews (Poétique, Romantisme, Cahiers Naturalistes, Orbis Litterarum…). 25 years of experience of teaching in higher education, from beginner’s level to doctorate courses, covering a wide range of courses (literature, phonetics, dissertation, communication, scientific approach, civilization, grammar, method…). Experience of Erasmus exchanges with Brest and Cadiz, and as an invited professor to Brest at master level. Solid experience of pedagogical development, philosophy of feedback, formative assessment, teaching online. Cooperation with international research groups (Flaubert, Zola), Pedagogical Center of Stockholm University and other universities in Sweden.

Vanezia Pârlea, University of Bucharest

Associate Professor of French Literature, Department of French Language and Literature at the University of Bucharest, and Director of the Heterotopos Research Center. Her areas of research include XVIIth century French Literature and Travel writing, with the main focus on cultural exchanges and cultural transfers between East and West. She has published «Un Franc parmy les Arabes». Parcours oriental et découverte de l’Autre chez le chevalier d’Arvieux (ELLUG, Grenoble, 2015).