Manon Labrande, Lic. MA
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Department of English and American Studies, 3G-02-24
Email: manon.labrande@univie.ac.at
Research Interests
- Victorian literature
- Victorian popular culture and entertainment
- Sensationalism
- Detective fiction
- Gothic fiction
Conference presentations
| 2018 | 'From Infamous to Influential: Redefining the Literary Significance of the Penny Dreadful _The String of Pearls: A Romance_'. 10th Annual Conference of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association, London, 3-7 July 2018. |
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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 Infamous to Influential: Redefining the Literary Significance of the Penny Dreadful The String of Pearls: A Romance'
Labrande, M. (Speaker)2018
Activity: Science to Science › Talk or oral contribution
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Spitalgasse 2, Hof 8 (Campus)
1090 Wien
Room: 3G-O2-24
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