Manon Burz-Labrande, Lic. MA
T: +43-1-4277-42426
Summer term 2021
123043 PS Literary Studies / Proseminar Literature - 'A slight hysterical tendency': Madness and insanity in Victorian fiction works and 20th-century rewritings
Winter term 2020
127010 KO Critical Readings in Literature - British fiction and literary conventions: investigating genre
Summer term 2020
127010 KO Critical Readings in Literature - Literary genres as social institutions: British fiction and literary conventions
Burz-Labrande, M., & Léger-St-Jean, M. (2022). Reynolds’s scissors-and-paste translation technique in “The Mysteries of the Inquisition”. Manuscript in preparation. In J. Conary, & M. L. Shannon (Eds.), Reynolds Reimagined: New Directions in G. W. M. Reynolds Studies Routledge.
Burz-Labrande, M. (Accepted/In press). ‘Useful knowledge’ versus ‘wastes of print’: Working-class encounters with education in Edward Lloyd’s penny publications. Victorian Popular Fictions Journal, 3(1).
Burz-Labrande, M. (Author). (2021). "Life-Writing in Poetry": A guest lecture by British poet and author Ruth Padel. Web publication, . https://anglistik.univie.ac.at/staff/staff/mieszkowski/ruth-padel-guest-lecture/
Burz-Labrande, M. (Accepted/In press). Bazalgette, Sir Joseph William (1819–1891). In K. A. Morrison (Ed.), London's East End: A Short Encyclopedia McFarland.
Burz-Labrande, M. (Accepted/In press). Billingsgate Fish Market. In K. A. Morrison (Ed.), London's East End: A Short Encyclopedia McFarland.
Burz-Labrande, M. (Accepted/In press). East End Women's Museum. In K. A. Morrison (Ed.), London's East End: A Short Encyclopedia McFarland.
Burz-Labrande, M. (Accepted/In press). The Tower of London (1840). In K. A. Morrison (Ed.), London's East End: A Short Encyclopedia McFarland.
Burz-Labrande, M. (Accepted/In press). Mitre Square. In K. A. Morrison (Ed.), London's East End: A Short Encyclopedia McFarland.
Mieszkowski, S., Burz-Labrande, M., & Freidl, H. (Eds.) (Accepted/In press). More Than Meets the Ear: Sound & Short Fiction. Intellect Books. Short Fiction in Theory & Practice Vol. 11 No. 1+2
Burz-Labrande, M. (2021). Review of Gothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks and Shilling Shockers, 1797–1830 (2021) by Franz J. Potter. Manuscript in preparation..
Burz-Labrande, M. (Accepted/In press). The Gherkin. In K. A. Morrison (Ed.), London's East End: A Short Encyclopedia McFarland.
Burz-Labrande, M. (Accepted/In press). The Seven Curses of London (1869). In K. A. Morrison (Ed.), London's East End: A Short Encyclopedia McFarland.
Labrande, M. (2020). "Attend the Tale of Sweeney Todd": The Transmedial Circulation of a Victorian Narrrative. Polysèmes, 23. https://doi.org/10.4000/polysemes.6781
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.
Labrande, M. (2019). Queen Victoria: An Iconic Monarch. uni:view. https://medienportal.univie.ac.at/uniview/wissenschaft-gesellschaft/detailansicht/artikel/queen-victoria-an-iconic-monarch/
Manon Burz-Labrande
Department of English and American Studies, 3G-02-24
Email: manon.labrande@univie.ac.at
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
- Circulation of popular fiction
- The Gothic
CV
•Since January 2018: University Assistant (Prae-Doc) and PhD student at the Department of English, University of Vienna - specialising in Victorian literature and popular culture
•2017 - 2022: Official examiner for the DELF-DALF exam (Diplôme d'Études en Langue Française-Diplôme Approfondi en Langue Française) with the Institut Français
•2020: 'Maîtrise' (French diploma equivalent to Matura + 4 Jahre, passed with honours) in French as Foreign Language at the University of Artois, France
•December 2017: DAEFLE (Diplôme d'Aptitude à l'Enseignement du Français Langue Etrangère - French as a Foreign Language Teaching Diploma) passed with honours
•September 2017 - January 2018: French language assistant in Mödling, Austria
•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
•2017 - 2022: Official examiner for the DELF-DALF exam (Diplôme d'Études en Langue Française-Diplôme Approfondi en Langue Française) with the Institut Français
•2020: 'Maîtrise' (French diploma equivalent to Matura + 4 Jahre, passed with honours) in French as Foreign Language at the University of Artois, France
•December 2017: DAEFLE (Diplôme d'Aptitude à l'Enseignement du Français Langue Etrangère - French as a Foreign Language Teaching Diploma) passed with honours
•September 2017 - January 2018: French language assistant in Mödling, Austria
•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
Reviving the penny dreadful in Neo-Victorian literature and culture
Manon Burz-Labrande (Invited speaker)
10 Dec 2020
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
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
Spitalgasse 2, Hof 8 (Campus)
1090 Wien
Room: 3G-O2-24
T: +43-1-4277-42426
F: +43-1-4277-842426