Additional Information / Informations supplémentaires

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Research Interest / Recherches

Caroline obtained her MA in English and French literature from the University of Geneva in 2018. Her early research explored the relationship between the New Woman and the figure of the hysteric in Victorian fiction. Her doctoral project analyzes the relationship between narrative structure and ideology in a selection of New Woman short fiction. Her methodology combines elements of stylistics and postclassical narratology to determine the textual mechanisms by which New Woman short stories construct an implied readership situated discursively in relation to contemporary debates on gender. Her corpus comprises works by established New Woman writers such as Olive Schreiner, Ella Hepworth Dixon, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, as well as authors rarely associated with the movement, such as Mary Wilkins Freeman.

Caroline teaches literary analysis and methodology in the context of two undergraduate seminars on English and American literature. She also coordinates the department’s Writing Lab, which provides individual tutoring services to students about academic writing.

PUBLICATIONS

Aïcha Bouchelaghem, Kimberly Frohreich, Deborah Madsen and Caroline Martin. “What Judges Your Story? Moral Deixis and Readerly Orientation.” Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature, vol. 43, 2023. Upcoming.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Nuancing the Stereotype: The ‘New Woman’ in the Early Short Fiction of Mary Wilkins Freeman,” ALA [American Literature Association] Conference 2023, Boston, 27 May 2023.

“Between Lexis and Deixis: Working Out Textual Ideology in Mary Wilkins Freeman’s short story ‘Louisa’,” SANAS Biennial Conference 2022, University of Fribourg, 19 November 2022.

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Staff Representative, Conseil Participatif de la Faculté des Lettres, University of Geneva (2021-present)

Board Member, Association du Corps Intermédiaire de la Faculté des Lettres, University of Geneva (2009-present)

Co-president/Treasurer, Association des Étudiant.e.x.s en Lettres, University of Geneva (2015-2018)