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Anna Iatsenko holds a Licence ès Lettres in English, General Linguistics and Comparative Literature from the University of Geneva. Her mémoire de licence focused of Toni Morrison’s use of language in the novel Jazz. Her research interests revolve around the questions of language and story-telling in works by authors such as Toni Morrison, Ben Okri, Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe.

Recent Papers / Conférences récentes

"'Hovering' Onscreen in Jonathan Demme's Beloved" at the joint AAAS and SANAS conference "The Visual Culture of Modernism" in Innsbruck, 12-14 November 2010.

"'Don't play what's there, play what's not there': Spaces and 'Jazz Poetics' in Toni Morrison's Fiction" at the CUSO Conference "Material Texts: Means and Conditions of Publication and Reception" in Geneva, 1-2 October 2010.

"Jazz and the City" CUSO Conference on "Literature and the Environment" in Geneva, 16-18 October 2009.

"Performing Voices: Morrison's 'Baby Suggs, holy'" SANAS Conference on "Writing American Women: Text, Gender, Performance" in Crêt-Bérard, 14 November 2008.

"How to Shred to Pieces A million Little Pieces: Oprah Winfrey and 'The James Frey Controversy'" Conference on "Authenticity" in Bern, 24 October 2008.

"Oprah and the Wheelbarrow" SANAS Colloquium "The Body in Contemporary American Culture" in Zurich, 10 November 2007.

"Breaking the Bonds of Inheritance: Reading Slavery in the 21st-Century Classroom" Conference on "Legacies" in Zurich, 28 September 2007.

"Theorizing Fiction, Fictionalizing Theory" 3e Cycle Conference on "Theory after 'Theory'" in Geneva, 25-26 May 2007.