Staff Profile
Dr Julie Hugonny
Lecturer - Modern French History and Politics
- Email: julie.hugonny@ncl.ac.uk
- Address: OLB.6.30
Julie Hugonny earned her Ph.D. in French literature from New York University in 2014. Her dissertation is titled The Last Man. Apocalyptic science fiction literature from the nineteenth century to World War I, and deals with disasters, epidemics, devolution and the end of the world.
Her teaching and research interests are: nineteenth-century French and English literature, science fiction in literature and film, and depictions of monsters in popular culture.
Book Project
The Last Man. Apocalyptic Science Fiction Literature from 1805 to World War I"
This book, an extension of my dissertation research, examines works of French and English apocalyptic literature as the birth of the science fiction genre. Processing the social, political and scientific upheavals of the time through literature, writers such as Jean Cousin de Grainville, Mary Shelley, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Jack London and J.-H Rosny Aîné invented the modern apocalypse. Reimagining the religious Judgement Day into a secular end of times, they created a new myth to fit their traumatic era. The relevance of science fiction has since remained unfailing.
Publications
Le Rire au service de la tyrannie dans L’Homme qui Rit, de Victor Hugo
French Forum, Volume 45, No.2, Summer 2020, p.139-155
Napoleonic Conquest and Chinese Absorption. Dialectics of Territorial Expansion in Jack London’s ’The Unparalleled Invasion’
Speculations of War. Essays on Conflict in Science-Fiction, Fantasy and Utopian Literature, éd. Annette Magid, McFarland (USA, 2020)
Philip Kaufman’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Mistrusting the female experience.
Supernatural Studies, Vol.5, Issue 1, Fall 2018, p.96-120.
‘Do I look inanimate to you, Punk?’ When plants rebel
Modern Language Studies, special Speculative Horror, Volume 49, No. 2, Winter 2020, p.16-33
Ex-Machina d’Alex Garland, Femme-machine et fille d’Ève
L’Homme et la Société. No. 213, Théâtralité de la Machine, éd. Florent le Bot, 2020/2
Fixing the Female – the man-made woman as a re-creation
Frankenstein Revived: Essays on the International Reception, Translation and Recasting of Mary Shelley’s Novel, ed. Jorge Bastos da Silva & Katarzyna Pisarska, University of Porto Press. (2022)
L’Orientale de Flaubert, un Sphinx sans secrets
“L’Histoire Feuilletée, dispositifs intertextuels dans la fiction historique du XIXe siècle.”, ed. Claudie Bernard and Corinne Saminadayar-Perrin, 2022, p.35-46
Selected Conference Participation
2022 « La Fidélité du Miroir»: Figures du Double dans L'Ève Future de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
Seeing Double - Société des Dix-Neuviémistes. Queen's University, Belfast
2021 « The Last Man on Earth – A New Myth for a new Trauma. »
Fates and Graces Mythologium. Online
2021 « Evelyn Habal: Everyday Magic. »
Disturbed and Disruptive Women. Women in French. Online
2021 « Mary Shelley’s Last Man. The Delusions of Prophecy »
Collapse and Extinction : Art, Literature and Discourse Conference. Online
2021 « A Child of the Revolution. The Origins of Science-fiction »
French Futures. A French Science-Fiction Festival. University of Stirling. Online
2020 « Are you a good person? Gender relations in post-apocalyptic fiction. »
HawaiiCon. Science Fiction Popular Cultures Academic Conference. Online
2020 « L’Orientale de Flaubert, un Sphinx sans secrets. »
L’Histoire feuilletée : intertextualité dans la fiction historique du XIXe s. New York University.
2019 « Ex Machina: Down with the Fairy Tale. »
Hawaii Con. Science Fiction Popular Cultures Academic Conference. Kona Big Island.
2018 « Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville, the First of the Last Men. »
Celebrity / Obscurity. Nineteenth-Century Studies Colloquium. Manhattan Beach.
2018 « Parasitic Humanity in Eco-Horror fiction. »
New Epistemologies and Relational Futures in the Age of the Anthropocene, Montreal.
2017 « ‘Do I look inanimate to you, Punk?’ When plants rebel. »
Apocalypse and the Epistemology of Horror, NeMLA Convention. Baltimore.
2017 « The Gnome and the Mirror in Oscar Wilde’s The Birthday of the Infanta. »
Odd Bodies: Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Philadelphia.
2016 « From gold-paved streets to scorched earth: prerevolutionary utopias and post-revolutionary dystopias. »
57è Congrès Annuel, Society for French Studies. Glasgow, Scotland.
Teaching Experience
Associate Lecturer in French, University of St. Andrews
- French 1001 / 1002 – French Language and Literature 1 and 2
- French 2201 / 2002 – Second Level French Language 1 and 2
- French 2204 - French Civilization, from the 19th to the 21st century
- French 2205 – French Literature, from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment
- French 3001 – French Language – Art reviews and Translation
- French 4080 - Bodies and Words in Libertine literature
Lecturer in French, University of Stirling
- French 9A1 – Language and Culture tracks 1 and 2
- Conversation class for L6 students replacing their semester abroad in France
Visiting Assistant Professor of French, Georgia Institute of Technology
- French 19th century Literature
- Advanced Composition
- Contemporary France
- Sustainability and Development in the Francophone World
- “From Sonnet to Slam” - French literature survey course
- Online Beginner French I and II
- Science and the French imagination: The End of the World in French Literature and Film
- Reading and Translation