Additional Information / Informations supplémentaires

Office and Office Hour / Bureau et heure de réception

Research Interests / Recherches:

Simone Oettli obtained her initial BA and MA Honours degrees in English and French literature at the University of Canterbury, in Christchurch, New Zealand. This was followed by an interdisciplinary Diplôme des études supérieures in Etudes Féminines, and a PhD, at the University of Geneva. Her doctoral thesis concerns postcolonial women writers and is entitled The Rhetoric of Madness: Reading the Work of Janet Frame, Jean Rhys and Bessie Head. Her current research focuses on Postcolonial, Maori and Pacific literature, but more general interests include the 19th & 20th Century, in particular the Modernist period.

Fellowships/ Bourses de recherche

• Schmidheiny Foundation, 1998.

Affiliations

• European Association for Commonwealth Language and Literature Studies
• Katherine Mansfield Society
• Member of the reviewing staff of World Literature Today, Oklahoma, USA, since 2001
• New Zealand Studies Association
• Postcolonial Studies Association

Recent conference papers / Conférences récentes:

‘“A Creature of Flesh and Blood”: Fictional Representations of Katherine Mansfield in New Zealand Literature.’ RMIT University, Melbourne. June, 2010.

‘Katherine Mansfield as Muse: The Mimesis of her Life and Art.’ Birkbeck College, University of London. September, 2008.

‘From Plato’s Cave to Mirror City: Mediterranean Inspiration and the Autobiography of Janet Frame.’ University of Florence. June 2008.

Publications:

Books and monographs / Livres et monographies:

Surfaces of Strangeness: Janet Frame and the Rhetoric of Madness. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2003.

Fragments of a World: A Collection of Photographs by New Zealand Women. Co-editor. Dunedin: McIndoe, 1976.

Articles and Chapters / Sélection d'articles et de chapitres:

'Janet Frame's Conceptualization of the Writing Process: From The Lagoon to Mirror City.' Commonwealth Essays and Studies, Vol.33, N°2, Spring 2011.

‘Representations of Childhood in the Stories of Katherine Mansfield and Witi Ihimaera.’ In Antipodean Childhoods: Growing Up in Australia and New Zealand. Eds. Ramsey-Kurz, Helga and Ulla Ratheiser. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 2010.

'Janet Frame: The Goose Bath.' World Literature Today. January, 2008.

'Janet Frame and Autism?' The New Zealand Medical Journal. November, 2007.

'Witi Ihimaera: The Rope of Man.' World Literature Today. January, 2007.

'Problematizing the Postcolonial: Deterritorialization and Cultural Identity in Robert Barclay’s Melal.' Journal of Postcolonial Writing. 39.2 (2003).

'The Maze Maker.' Kenyon Review. (V.1) 1983.