Manon Burz-Labrande, Lic. MA
T: +43-1-4277-42426
Summer term 2020
127010 KO Critical Readings in Literature - Literary genres as social institutions: British fiction and literary conventions
Winter term 2019
123044 PS Literary Studies / Proseminar Literature - Gothic Goes Imperial
Summer term 2019
123044 PS Literary Studies / Proseminar Literature - Visions of London in Victorian Fiction
Labrande, M. (Accepted/In press). "Attend the Tale of Sweeney Todd": The Transmedial Circulation of a Victorian Narrrative. Polysèmes, Contemporary Victoriana special issue.
Accepted/In press
Burz-Labrande, M. (Accepted/In press). Review of Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction, Medicine and Anatomy: The Victorian Penny Blood and the 1832 Anatomy Act (2019) by Anna Gasperini. The Wilkie Collins Journal.
Accepted/In press
Manon Burz-Labrande
Department of English and American Studies, 3G-02-24
Email: manon.labrande@univie.ac.at
Office hour: Thursdays 11:00 - 12:00
Department of English and American Studies, 3G-02-24
Email: manon.labrande@univie.ac.at
Office hour: Thursdays 11:00 - 12:00
Research Interests
- Victorian literature
- Victorian popular culture and entertainment
- Sensationalism
- Circulation of popular fiction
- Detective fiction
- Gothic fiction
CV
•Since January 2018: University Assistant (Prae-Doc) and PhD student at the Department of English, University of Vienna
•December 2017: DAEFLE (Diplôme d'Aptitude à l'Enseignement du Français Langue Etrangère - French as a Foreign Language Teaching Diploma) passed with honours
•Autumn 2017: French language assistant in Austria. DELF certification delivered by the Institut Français (authorised to examine and correct the Diplôme d'Étude de Langue Française - French Language Diploma for Non-Native Speakers)
•2015 - 2017: English teacher at secondary school level in France (Agrégation passed in 2015)
•2012 - 2014: MA (graduation with honours) in British, North-American and Post-Colonial Studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris.
•MA theses: "A Study of the Penny Dreadful: From its Gothic origins to its influence on detective fiction. The example of The String of Pearls" (written in English), and "'Quel homme était-ce donc - ou plutôt, quelle créature sous une apparence humaine ?' L'évolution de la figure du vampire dans la littérature britannique du 19ème siècle: Lord Ruthven, Sir Francis Varney et le Comte Dracula" (written in French)
•2013 - 2014: French language assistant in York, UK
•2009 - 2012: Licence (equivalent to BA, with honours) in Anglophone Literatures, Language and Cultures at the University of Pau, France
•December 2017: DAEFLE (Diplôme d'Aptitude à l'Enseignement du Français Langue Etrangère - French as a Foreign Language Teaching Diploma) passed with honours
•Autumn 2017: French language assistant in Austria. DELF certification delivered by the Institut Français (authorised to examine and correct the Diplôme d'Étude de Langue Française - French Language Diploma for Non-Native Speakers)
•2015 - 2017: English teacher at secondary school level in France (Agrégation passed in 2015)
•2012 - 2014: MA (graduation with honours) in British, North-American and Post-Colonial Studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris.
•MA theses: "A Study of the Penny Dreadful: From its Gothic origins to its influence on detective fiction. The example of The String of Pearls" (written in English), and "'Quel homme était-ce donc - ou plutôt, quelle créature sous une apparence humaine ?' L'évolution de la figure du vampire dans la littérature britannique du 19ème siècle: Lord Ruthven, Sir Francis Varney et le Comte Dracula" (written in French)
•2013 - 2014: French language assistant in York, UK
•2009 - 2012: Licence (equivalent to BA, with honours) in Anglophone Literatures, Language and Cultures at the University of Pau, France
From The String of Pearls to The Fiend of Fleet Street: Sweeney Todd’s 1847 transmedial trajectory
Manon Burz-Labrande (Speaker)1 Feb 2020
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
"Intoxicating Poisons", "Embalmed Pestilence": The Rhetoric of Contamination of the Penny Dreadfuls' Contemporary Criticism
Manon Labrande (Speaker)29 Aug 2019
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
"The Plague of Poisonous Literature": Presentation of PhD Project
Manon Labrande (Speaker)4 May 2019
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
"Penny Packets of Poison": Disseminating Multimodal Sensationalism and Serialised Gothic in 1840s Penny Bloods
Manon Labrande (Speaker)21 Mar 2019
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
"It's man devouring man, my dear, and who are we to deny it in here?": Cannibalism and Commodification in Sweeney Todd Narratives
Manon Labrande (Speaker)17 Nov 2018
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
'From Infamous to Influential: Redefining the Literary Significance of the Penny Dreadful The String of Pearls: A Romance'
Manon Labrande (Speaker)6 Jul 2018
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Department of English and American Studies
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