Dr Dana Lungu
Expertise
Lecturer in French
Current positions
Honorary Research Fellow
School of Modern Languages
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Biography
I have a PhD in French from the University of Bristol. I currently teach within the French Department.
Research interests
- Early Modern French tragedy, particularly the plays written by Jean Racine, Pierre Corneille and Hilaire-Bernard de Longepierre: tragic heroines and ways of approaching their behaviour inspired by recent developments in the fields of ethics and psychoanalysis; the concept of tragic hero; the psychodynamic of characters. I have been awarded the SEMFS Amy Wygant scholarship to finalise my monograph based on this work: Médée, Clytemnestre and Phèdre: Female Heroism Revisited in Seventeenth-Century French Tragedy (Brill, Faux Titre, forthcoming 2023).
- Cutting edge approaches to staging early modern tragedy: the readings that emerge from recent productions of these plays and the way they inform the interpretation of the text; the way twentieth and twentieth-century radical adaptations breathe new life into these dramatic texts and create connections with contemporaneity. These interests have generated a book article on contemporary adaptation: 'Faire de contraintes théâtre’ staging Bajazet at the Comédie Française' in an edited volume on Racine's Bajazet and Mithridate (Brill, Faux Titre, forthcoming 2023)
- The difference between classical texts and their early modern counterparts: the way the ideas and values incorporated in these source texts were continued, developed and transformed in the light of seventeenth-century ideology and theories of tragedy creating characters who display a complex inner life enabling fruitful readings and interpretations based on modern ethical psychoanalytical theories.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Co-creative and collaborative practices in adaptation working with migrant mothers: ethical challenges and guidelines
Principal Investigator
Description
This project aims to tackle this issue and ask about how we can work in an ethical and equitable manner with migrant and asylum-seeking participants using art-based participatory methods.…Managing organisational unit
Department of FrenchDates
01/06/2024 to 30/07/2024
Toolkit for working with migrant participants in co-produced research projects in ways that encourage their creative writing and enhance their role in shaping knowledge
Principal Investigator
Description
This project aims to bring together researchers and community artists and facilitators in order to discuss and develop ways of working with migrant participants which enhance their role in shaping…Managing organisational unit
Department of FrenchDates
01/03/2024 to 31/07/2027
Publications
Recent publications
31/08/2023Female Heroism in the Works of Corneille and Racine
Female Heroism in the Works of Corneille and Racine
Tyrants and Victims or Game Players? A Transactional Analysis Perspective on Barthes’s ‘Rapport de Force’ in Racine’s Phèdre
Early Modern French Studies
Thesis
Médée, Clytemnestre and Phèdre
Supervisors
Award date
28/11/2019