{"386841":{"#nid":"386841","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Dr. Boulards\u0027 research on French writer, Victor Hugo","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn February 14 and 15, Dr. St\u00e9phanie Boulard spoke at the Maison Vacquerie-Mus\u00e9e Victor Hugo in Normandy, France, about her last research on Victor Hugo and the obsessive presence of the guillotine in his works. She argues that the guillotine haunts Victor\u2019s Hugo\u2019s entire \u003Cem\u003Eoeuvre\u003C\/em\u003E, and shows how it reappears again and again from \u003Cem\u003EThe Last Day of a Condemned Man\u003C\/em\u003E to \u003Cem\u003ENinety-Three\u003C\/em\u003E, with the same insistent repetition that marked the guillotine\u2019s own use in its heyday. Methodical and incisive, the guillotine perhaps represents a privileged view of nineteenth-century history. In her recent book \u003Cem\u003ERouge Hugo\u003C\/em\u003E (Septentrion 2014), featured at the event, she further demonstrates that it is in any case through the eye, the \u003Cem\u003Elunette\u003C\/em\u003E, of this instrument that Victor Hugo focuses his own critical gaze upon his century.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring the event, Dr. St\u00e9phanie Boulard was interviewed and also appeared in the TV documentary \u201cLa Quotidienne\u201d presenting the \u201c\u003Cem\u003E8\u003Csup\u003Ee\u003C\/sup\u003E rencontres autour de Victor Hugo\u003C\/em\u003E\u201d (8\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E encounters around Victor Hugo), and in the news presenting the event: \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.paris-normandie.fr\/detail_communes\/articles\/2544558\/victor-hugo-revisite%23.VP9VZGbwvoE\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.paris-normandie.fr\/detail_communes\/articles\/2544558\/victor-hugo-revisite#.VP9VZGbwvoE\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn March 21\u003Csup\u003Est\u003C\/sup\u003E, Dr. St\u00e9phanie Boulard presents her new project at the International Colloquium: \u201cVictor Hugo and the Arts\u201d at the Ecole d\u0027art Emile Cohl, in Lyon, France. She explores the contemporary artist Arnulf Rainer\u2019s obsessive \u2018overpainting\u2019 (\u003Cem\u003E\u00fcbermalungen\u003C\/em\u003E) on Victor Hugo. She confronts the two practices: the profuse yet dilettante practice of drawing by Hugo, and the hundred\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E\u00fcbermalungen\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;by Rainer, colouring in, scribbling on and scratching into printed reproductions of Hugo\u2019s artworks that he has gleaned for years, either by photocopying, scanning or ripping them directly from books.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESt\u00e9phanie Boulard \u003C\/strong\u003Eis an Associate Professor of French at Georgia Institute of Technology. She is the author of \u003Cem\u003ERouge Hugo \u003C\/em\u003E(Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2014). She directed a special issue of \u003Cem\u003ELa Revue des Sciences humaines\u003C\/em\u003E (\u003Cem\u003EEgo Hugo\u003C\/em\u003E, Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2011) and edited a book on the contemporary writer Claude Louis-Combet: \u003Cem\u003EVisions, visitations, passions: en compagnie de Claude Louis-Combet\u003C\/em\u003E (Corlevour, 2008). In addition, Boulard has authored numerous articles on authors such as Pascal Quignard, H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Cixous, Henri Michaux, Jean Genet, Claude Louis-Combet, Victor Hugo, and Honor\u00e9 de Balzac.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Dr. Boulard has been engaged in events and research activity in France, centered on French writer Victor Hugo"}],"uid":"27835","created_gmt":"2015-03-11 13:20:51","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:55","author":"Shamiso Barnett","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-03-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-03-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"386581":{"id":"386581","type":"image","title":"Boulard","body":null,"created":"1449246275","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:24:35","changed":"1475894400","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:00","alt":"Boulard","file":{"fid":"75432","name":"stephanie_boulard.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/stephanie_boulard.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/stephanie_boulard.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2131667,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/stephanie_boulard.jpg?itok=-yDLncrN"}}},"media_ids":["386581"],"groups":[{"id":"1284","name":"School of Modern Languages"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3016","name":"French"},{"id":"3811","name":"languages"},{"id":"365","name":"Research"},{"id":"121241","name":"victor hugo"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["Shamiso.Barnett@modlangs.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}