Graduate Student, Modern Languages
Dr Pierre-Philipppe Fraiture
Dr Sam Haigh
About
An enthusiast for crime fiction, my undergraduate dissertation (Oxford Brookes) concentrated on the women in Pennac's Malaussene saga. My research MA, also from Brookes, considered 'The missing 'detective' in contemporary French crime fiction: two case studies, Didier Daeninckx and Fred Vargas.'.
My PhD research at Warwick will investigate the enigma of Fred Vargas, professional medieval archaeologist, crime writer and political activist. Does the literary style of her 'rompols' (her coinage for them) move her from the genre into literature, or does she remain in the margins, pushing the boundaries whilst out of the spotlight? How important are her non literary interests - archaeology, political activism for justice for Cesare Battisti, feminism, music, art and being half of a binary pairing? How much does her writing challenge generic expectations, particularly as a French woman writer? How does she explore different ways of seeing with her perspectives and those of her investigators and her marginal characters?
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