Biography
I studied French at the University of Kent at Canterbury (BA 1972), where I went on to become a postgraduate (1972-75). I obtained my PhD, on 'The Poetic Language of André Breton', in 1981. My first teaching post was in the French Department of University College Dublin, where I worked from 1975 to 2002 before being appointed to the 1776 Chair of French at Trinity College Dublin in 2002. I served as Head of Dept from 2002 to 2005, before being awarded an IRCHSS Senior Research Fellwship for the academic year 2005-06. I was elected a Fellow of the College in 2004 and was appointed Director of Research of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies in October 2006. As well as language, I teach modern and contemporary French literature, particularly autobiography and biography, and, at postgraduate level, contribute actively to the French Department's MPhil programme, Textual and Visual Studies, which I also currently direct. My main current research interest lies in contemporary French autobiography and biography, with particular reference to works exploring the relations between writing and photography.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Johnnie Gratton, Georges Didi-Huberman's Iconology of the Ninfa Moderna: A Critique, Irish Journal of French Studies, 11, 2012, p113 - 134
'Livret de famille (1977): jeux et enjeux du récit incertain' in, editor(s)Anne-Yvonne Julien , Modiano ou les intermittences de la mémoire, Paris, Hermann Éditeurs, 2010, pp147 - 164, [Johnnie Gratton]
"Sophie Calle: écriture blanche, photographie, photo-textualité" in, editor(s)Dominique Rabaté and Dominique Viart , Écritures blanches, Saint-Étienne (France), Publications de l'Université de Saint-Étienne, 2009, pp155 - 167, [Johnnie Gratton]
'_Gotham Handbook_ de Sophie Calle: vie et mort d'une identité hybride' in, editor(s)Phyllis Gaffney, Michael Brophy, Mary Gallagher , Reverberations: Staging Relations in French since 1500, Dublin, University College Dublin Press, 2008, pp199 - 206, [Johnnie Gratton]
Johnnie Gratton, 'Du documentaire au documontage: Vingt ans après de Sophie Calle', Intermédialités, (7), 2006, p167 - 179
Johnnie Gratton, Derval Conroy (eds), L' il écrit. Etudes sur des rapports entre texte et image, 1800-1940, Geneva, Slatkine Erudition, 2005, 267 pp
'On the Subject of the Project' in, editor(s)Johnnie Gratton, Michael Sheringham , The Art of the Project: Projects and Experiments in Modern French Culture, Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2005, pp123 - 139, [Johnnie Gratton]
Johnnie Gratton, 'Postmemory, Prememory, Paramemory: The Writing of Patrick Modiano', French Studies, LIX, (1), 2005, p39 - 45
Johnnie Gratton, Michael Sheringham (eds), The Art of the Project: Projects and Experiments in Modern French Culture, Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2005, 232pp
'Tracking the Art of the Project' in, editor(s)Johnnie Gratton, Michael Sheringham , The Art of the Project: Projects and Experiments in Modern French Culture, Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2005, pp1 - 30, [Johnnie Gratton, Michael Sheringham]
'Autobiography', Christopher John Murray, Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought, NY/London, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004, [Johnnie Gratton]
Johnnie Gratton, 'Auto-photo-bio: Sophie Calle', Textes et Documents pour la Classe, (884), 2004, p16 - 19
Johnnie Gratton, 'Sophie Calle's True Stories: More of the Same?', Paragraph, 26, (3), 2003, p108 - 122
"The Subject of Enunciation in Roland Barthes's La Chambre claire" in, editor(s)Mike Gane, Nicolas Gane , Roland Barthes, 3 vols, vol 3, London, Sage Publications, 2003, pp287 - 301, [Johnnie Gratton]
'Sophie Calle's Des histoires vraies: Irony and Beyond' in, editor(s)Alex Hughes, Andrea Noble , Phototextualities: Intersections of Photography and Narrative, Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 2003, pp182 - 197, [Johnnie Gratton]
'Poétique et pratique du receuil photo-textuel dans l' uvre de Sophie Calle' in, editor(s)Irène Langlet , Le Recueil littéraire. Pratiques et théorie d'une forme, Rennes (Brittany), Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2003, pp125 - 132, [Johnnie Gratton]
'Du "peu de vrai" dans la biographie contemporaine: Macé, Michon, Modiano, Quignard' in, editor(s)suzanne Guellouz, Gabrielle Chamarat-Malandain , Modèles, Dialogues et Invention. Mélanges offerts à Anne Chevalier, Caen (Normandy), Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2002, pp313 - 324, [Johnnie Gratton]
'D'une certaine revenance de la poésie dans la prose: essai sur la littérature contemporaine' in, editor(s)David Murphy, Aedín Ní Loingsigh , Thresholds of Otherness / Autrement mêmes: Identity and Alterity in French-Language Literatures, London, Grant & Cutler, 2002, pp245 - 258, [Johnnie Gratton]
'Experiment and Experience in the Phototextual Projects of Sophie Calle' in, editor(s)Gill Rye, Michael Worton , Women's Writing in Contemporary France, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2002, pp157 - 170, [Johnnie Gratton]
'Short Story', Michael Kelly, Glossary of Modern French Culture, London, Arnold, 2001, pp238 - 239, [Johnnie Gratton]
'Nouvelle et photographie' in, editor(s)Vincent Engel, Michel Guissard , La Nouvelle de langue française aux frontières des autres genres, Louvain-La-Neuve (Belgium), Academia-Bruylant, 2001, pp544 - 550, [Johnnie Gratton]
'Autobiography', Michael Kelly, Glossary of Modern French Culture, London, Arnold, 2001, pp22 - 23, [Johnnie Gratton]
'Subject/Subjectivity', Michael Kelly, Glossary of Modern French Culture, London, Arnold, 2001, pp249 - 250, [Johnnie Gratton]
'Photography', Michael Kelly, Glossary of Modern French Culture, London, Arnold, 2001, pp201 - 202, [Johnnie Gratton]
'Structuralism', Michael Kelly, Glossary of Modern French Culture, London, Arnold, 2001, pp248 - 249, [Johnnie Gratton]
'Autofiction', Margaretta Jolly, Encyclopedia of Life Writing, 1, London/Chicago, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001, pp86 - 87, [Johnnie Gratton]
Eugène Atget, Michael Kelly, Glossary of Modern French Culture, London, Arnold, 2001, pp19 - [Johnnie Gratton]
Johnnie Gratton, 'Pleasure in Foucault", Journal of Romance Studies, 1, (2), 2001, p31 - 40
'Introduction: The Return of the Subject" in, editor(s)Johnnie Gratton, Paul Gifford , Subject Matters: Sublect and Self in French Literature from Descartes to the Present, Amsterdam/Atlanta GA, Rodopi, 2000, pp1 - 27, [Johnnie Gratton]
'The Subject of Enunciation in Roland Barthes's La Chambre claire' in, editor(s)Diana Knight , Critical Essays on Roland Barthes, New York, G. K. Hall & Co. ('Critical Essays in World Literature' Series), 2000, pp266 - 278, [Johnnie Gratton]
Johnnie Gratton, Expressivism: The Vicissitudes of a Theory in the Writing of Proust and Barthes, Oxford, Legenda, 2000, 123pp
'La Pratique du récit incertain chez Jean-Loup Trassard' in, editor(s)Arlette Bouloumié , L'Ecriture du bocage: Les Chemins de Jean-Loup Trassard, Angers (France), Presses de l'Université d'aNgers, 2000, pp277 - 287, [Johnnie Gratton]
Johnnie Gratton, Paul Gifford (eds), Subject Matters: Subject and Self in French Literature from Descartes to the Present, Amsterdam/Atlanta GA, Rodopi, 2000, 243pp
'Roland Barthes: du sujet de l'énonciation au sujet de l'expérience' in, editor(s)Paul Gifford, Alain Goulet , Voix, traces, événements: l'écriture et son sujet, Caen (Normandy), Presses Universitaires de Caen, 1999, pp147 - 155, [Johnnie Gratton]
'Short Story Writing', Alex Hughes, Keith Reader, Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture, London, Routledge, 1998, pp487 - 489, [Johnnie Gratton]
'From the Nouvelle to the Nouvellistique' in, editor(s)J. E. Flower , Short French Fiction: Essays on the Short Story in France in the Twentieth Century, Exeter, Univesity of Exeter Press, 1998, pp122 - 152, [Johnnie Gratton]
Johnnie Gratton, 'The Poetics of the Autobiographical Incident in Roland Barthes's Fragments d'un discours amoureux', Nottingham French Studies, 36, (1), 1997, p63 - 75
'Espèces d'espaces d'enfance' in, editor(s)David Gascoigne , Le Moi et ses espaces: Quelques repères identitaires dans la littérature française contemporaine, Caen (Normandy), Presses Universitaires de Caen, 1997, pp242 - 260, [Johnnie Gratton]
Johnnie Gratton, Jean-Philippe Imbert, La Nouvelle hier et aujourd'hui, Paris, L'Harmattan, 1997, 381pp
'Postmodern French Fiction: Practice and Theory' in, editor(s)Timothy Unwin , The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp242 - 360, [Johnnie Gratton]
'Nouvelle et autobiographie: Le Récit bref chez Jean-Loup Trassard in, editor(s)Johnnie Gratton and Jean-Philippe Imbert , La Nouvelle hier et aujourd'hui , Paris, L'Harmattan, 1997, pp251 - 259, [Johnnie Gratton]
Johnnie Gratton, 'Text, Image, Reference in Roland Barthes's La Chambre claire', Modern Language Review, 91, (2), 1996, p355 - 364
'Brièveté et brouillage dans "La Femme cachée" de Colette' in, editor(s)Jean-Philippe Imbert and Madeleine Cottenet-Hage , Anthologie critique de nouvelles de femmes francophones, Quebec, l'Instant même, 1996, pp22 - 31, [Johnnie Gratton]
Johnnie Gratton, 'The Subject of Enunciation in Roland Barthes's La Chambre claire', French Studies, 50, (2), 1996, p170 - 181
Johnnie Gratton, "Towards Narrativity: Nathalie Sarraute's Enfance', Forum for Modern Language Studies, 31, (4), 1995, p300 - 311
Johnnie Gratton, 'Autobiography and Fragmentation: The Case of Nathalie Sarraute's Enfance', Nottingham French Studies, 34, (2), 1995, p31 - 40
Johnnie Gratton, 'Du Seigneur à la chasse au Seigneur chassé: Lecture d'un fragment barthésien', Littérature, (97), 1995, p14 - 27
'Introduction' in, editor(s)Johnnie Gratton and Brigitte Le Juez , Modern French Short Fiction, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1994, pp2 - 21, [Johnnie Gratton and Brigitte Le Juez]
Johnnie Gratton, 'The Present Tense in Nathalie Sarraute's Enfance', French Studies Bulletin, (52), 1994, p15 - 17
Johnnie Gratton, Brigitte Le Juez (eds), Modern French Short Fiction, Paperback, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1994, 204pp
'Runaway: Textual Dynamics in the Surrealist Poetry of André Breton' in, editor(s)Ian Higgins , Surrealism and Language: Seven Essays, Edinburgh, Scottish Academic Press, 1986, pp30 - 45, [Johnnie Gratton]
Johnnie Gratton, 'Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes: Autobiography and the Notion of Expression', Romance Studies, (8), 1986, p57 - 65
Johnnie Gratton, 'Runaway: Textual Dynamics in the Surrealist Poetry of André Breton', Forum for Modern Language Studies, 18, (2), 1982, p126 - 141
Johnnie Gratton, 'Textual Interaction in Combray: the Instance of Golo', Dalhousie French Studies, 2, 1980, p66 - 88
Johnnie Gratton, 'Poetics of the Surrealist Image', Romanic Review, 69, (1-2), 1978, p103 - 114
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Johnnie Gratton, 'The Defamiliarisation of Formalism', Third Degree, (4), 1979, p23 - 27
Research Expertise
Projects
- Title
- Sophie Calle Project Artist
- Summary
- A study of the work of the French writer/photographer Sophie Calle guided by the notion of project art and with particular reference to her photo-textual documentations of her various projects.
- Funding Agency
- IRCHSS (2005-06)
- Date From
- 2005
- Date To
- 2007
Recognition
Representations
Panel chairman/external reviewer, Strategic Departmental Review of French Studies, University of Warwick (UK), 8-10 December 2009
Committee of Heads and Professors of French, Ireland
Alliance Française Organising Committee, annual Literary Festival, Dublin,
External Examiner, PhD (French), London Birkbeck, UK
Public lecture, 'Introducing Sophie Calle', Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
External Examiner, PhD (French), Cambridge, UK
General Editor, The Irish Journal of French Studies
Executive Committee, Association des Etudes Françaises et Francophones d'Irlande
External Examiner, French U/G and P/G programmes, University of Liverpool, UK
External examiner, PhD in French, University College London (UL)
(Prior to joining TCD): extern, PhD (French) in Royal Holloway UL (2), Queens University Belfast, University of Kent at Canterbury, University of Oxford; external supervisor for PhD student (French) in University of Wolverhampton (UK); external examiner in U/G French at DIT Dublin (3 years) and University of Nottingham, UK (3 years).
Awards and Honours
Chevalier des Palmes Académiques
Memberships
Association des Etudes Françaises et Francophones d'Irlande
Society for French Studies
Conseil International d'Etudes Francophones