Dr. Halia Koo
Academics
- Licence ès lettres, Université de Lausanne
- A.M., Dartmouth College
- Ph.D., University of Toronto
Research Interests
- Travel literature in the Francophone world
- Exoticism, colonialism and cosmopolitanism
- Intercultural and transcultural issues in literature
- Nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature
- Comparative literature; literature, history and the arts
- Women’s travel narratives
- The influence of modernism and technology on literature; the literature of aviation
- The emergence of ecological discourse in contemporary travel narratives
Publications
Book
- Voyage, vitesse et altérité selon Paul Morand et Nicolas Bouvier. Préface de Roland Le Huenen. Paris, Honoré Champion, 2015.
https://www.honorechampion.com/fr/9154-book-08532927-9782745329271.html
Book Chapter
- “'On the edge of humanism’: Travel literature at the intersection of environmental concerns”, Green Matters: Reading Literature as Cultural Ecology (Ed. Maria Löschnigg and Melanie Braunecker), Brill Book Series: Nature, Culture and Literature, Volume 15 (2019), p. 90-108. https://brill.com/view/title/55722
Book Review
- “Jean-Xavier Ridon, L’étrangement du voyageur” (Paris, Éditions Kimé, 2018). Studies in Travel Writing, Volume 23, Issue 1 (2019), p. 91-93.
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rstw20/23/1
Articles in Refereed Journals
- “Walking as ‘Criticism on the Move’ and a Protest Strategy in Contemporary French Travel Writing: The Case of Alexandre Poussin and Sylvain Tesson”. Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, special focus section “Literary Walks, Slow Travel, and Eco-Awareness in Contemporary Literature”, Vol. 44, Issue 1, Article 9 (2020).
https://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol44/iss1/9/
- “Une esthétique de l’esquive : stratégies de résistance et de retrait dans l’espace sylvestre de Sylvain Tesson”. Voix plurielles, Volume 16, No 2 : « L’imaginaire de la forêt dans les littératures contemporaines d’expression française » (2019), p. 37-58.
https://journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/voixplurielles/article/view/2308
- “The (Hi)story of the Encounter: The Historical and the Personal in Nicolas Bouvier’s The Japanese Chronicles”. IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship, Vol. 7, Issue 1 (Autumn 2018): p. 29-46.
https://iafor.org/journal/iafor-journal-of-literature-and-librarianship/volume-7-issue-1/
- “La continuité géographique et temporelle : une vision polyphonique du monde”. Roman 20-50 : Revue d’étude du roman des XXe et XXIe siècles (Presses Universitaires du Septentrion). Special issue on Nicolas Bouvier’s L’Usage du monde, hors-série n° 8 (mars 2018): p. 79-94.
https://www.cairn.info/revue-roman2050-2018-1.htm
- “Du conte au roman : l’image du sang dans le programme littéraire et politique d’Émile Zola”. @nalyses : Revue de critique et de théorie littéraire. Dossier spécial « Le rouge et le noir : le sang et la mort dans le roman d’expression française », vol. 12, n° 1 (janvier 2017): p. 196-220.
https://uottawa.scholarsportal.info/ottawa/index.php/revue-analyses/article/view/1926
- “(Wo)men Travellers: Physical and Narrative Boundaries”. Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, Vol. 39, no. 2 (June 2006): p. 19-36.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/i40167369
- “The Construction of the Other through the Narrative of Aviation in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Anne Morrow Lindbergh”. Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 10. 2 (Fall 2003): p. 30-54.
https://jcpcsonline.com/contents/v10n2.html
Contact Information
Office: SN-3053
Phone: (709) 864-8827
Email: hkoo@mun.ca