Recent Publications - Dr. Sophie Boyer
Dr. Sophie Boyer
German Studies Section
Book (monograph)
La femme chez Heinrich Heine et Charles Baudelaire: le langage moderne de l’amour. Paris: L’Harmattan, coll. “L’Allemagne d’hier et d’aujourd’hui”, 2005, 322 p.
Chapter in a Book
“The Triumph of Hyperreality: A Baudrillardian Reading of Michael Haneke’s Cinematic Oeuvre.” Cinema and Social Change in Germany and Austria. Ed. G. Mueller and J. Skidmore. Waterloo: Wilfried Laurier University Press, forthcoming.
Refereed Journal Articles
“‘Das Mark aus meinem Rückgrat trank/ Ihr Mund mit wildem Saugen’: le corps vampirique chez Heinrich Heine ou l’échange symbolique de l’amour et de la mort.” Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik, “Body Dialectics in the Age of Goethe”. Ed. M. Henn and H. Pausch. Amsterdam: Rodopi, Band 55 (2003): 195-210.
Boyer, Sophie, and Dueck, Cheryl. “Ich habe mich immer zunächst dafür interessiert, eine gute Story zu finden...: Sophie Boyer und Cheryl Dueck im Gespräch mit Frank Beyer (11. November 2002).” Glossen 18 (2003): www.dickinson.edu/glossen
Published Conference Paper
“Temporality and Subversion in Marlen Haushoher’s The Wall.” Rethinking Violence and Patriarchy for the New Millennium: A German and Hispanic Perspective. Ed. F. de Diego and A. Schwartz. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2002. 35-44.
Book Reviews and Entry in a Book
“Böse Lust”: Gewaltverbrechen in Diskursen der Weimarer Republik, Hania Siebenpfeiffer, in: Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies (forthcoming).
La séduction policière: signes de croissance d’un genre réputé mineur: Pierre Magnan, Daniel Pennac et quelques autres, Pierre Verdaguer, in: The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 61.1 (Spring 2007): 151-153.
Enlightenment Phantasies. Cultural Identity in France and Germany, 1750-1914, Harold Mah, in Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 41.2 (May 2005): 170-171.
Heinrich Heine – Dichter, Philosoph und Europäer: Eine Studie zum weltanschaulich-philosophischen Strukturprinzip seiner Pariser Schriften, Erzsébet von Gaál Gyulai, in Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 37.2 (May 2001): 176-177.
Entry on SylvieGermain, in Who’s Who in Contemporary Women’s Writing. Ed. Jane Eldridge Miller. London, New York: Routledge, 2001. 119.
Recent Conference Papers
“Andrea Maria Schenkel’s Kalteis: A True Case Study of Literary Borrowing.’ Con(tra)vention: Crime and the Boundaries of Genre, Third Interdisciplinary Conference of the Atlantic Alliance of Universities Crime Genre Research Group, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, 27 June 2009.
“Fictionalizing Pathology: Scientific Discourse & Ideology in Rahel Sanzara’s Das verlorene Kind.’ Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Boston, Massachusetts, 28 February 2009.
“The Triumph of Hyperreality in Michael Haneke’s Cinematic Oeuvre”. Cinema and Social Change in Germany and Austria, University of Waterloo, May 1-3, 2008.
“The Political Power of Stone: Statues in Heinrich Heine’s Oeuvre.” Politics and Propaganda: 29th Annual Conference of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, April 3-5, 2008.
“Transgressing the Law of the Father: Crime & Sexuality in Hermann Ungar’s Oeuvre.” 2008 National Popular Culture & American Culture Associations Conference, German Literature and Culture: “Kafka and his Friends” Panel, San Francisco, California, March 19-22, 2008.
“One Cannot Know the House in Which One Lives: Uncanny Setting in Hermann Ungar’s The Maimed.” The Scene of the Crime: Setting in Modern Crime Fiction, Second Interdisciplinary Conference of the Atlantic Alliance of Universities, University of Limerick, Ireland, 15-16 June 2007.
“The Aesthetics of Crime and Sexuality in Rahel Sanzara’s Das verlorene Kind.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, University of Arizona, Tucson, October 14, 2006.
“La mémoire du sang dans Das verlorene Kind von Rahel Sanzara.” ACFAS 74th Annual Congress, Colloquium “Mémoire et culture: nouvelles perspectives en études allemandes et germanophones”, McGill University, Montreal, May 16, 2006.
“Blame it on the Mother: Crime and Sexuality in Gertrud Kolmar’s Die jüdische Mutter.” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of University Teachers of German, University of Western Ontario, London, May 31, 2005.
“Kunst im DaF-Unterricht anhand von Käthe Kollwitz,” Canadian Association of Teachers of German/Association des professeurs d’allemand du Québec Annual Conference, Goethe-Institut, Montreal, February 7, 2004.
“Le discours de l’anti-séduction: pour une lecture baudrillardienne de Putain, de Nelly Arcan,” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association, Dalhousie University, Halifax, May 30, 2003.
“‘Willst du küssen das blanke Schwert?’: Castration and Decapitation in Heinrich Heine,” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of University Teachers of German, University of Toronto, Toronto, May 26, 2002.
“À la recherche du temps perdu: Temporalité et subversion dans Le Mur invisible de Marlen Haushofer,” Violence and Patriarchy in Literature and the Arts Conference: Perspectives for the New Millennium, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, October 19, 2001.
