Lauren Lydic

Lecturer

Biography

Professor Lydic’s interdisciplinary research focuses on conflict, memory, power, and gender in Anglophone, Francophone, Russophone and (ex-)Yugoslav literatures, film, and art.  Broadly, Lydic’s areas of interest revolve around the discursive production of local and transnational knowledges during and after violent conflicts; intersectional issues of gender, race, class, sexuality, and dis/ability; and cross-cultural adaptations, appropriations, and translations. 

Education/Degrees

Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, Canada M.A. in Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, Canada B.A. in Comparative Literature, Smith College, USA

Publications

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals Lydic, Lauren. “‘Noseological’ Parody, Gender Discourse, and Yugoslav Feminisms: Following Gogol'’s ‘Nose’ to Ugrešić’s ‘Hot Dog on a Warm Bun.’” Comparative Literature 62.2 (May 2010): 161- 78. Books Lydic, Lauren and Bertrand Westphal. Le silence et la parole au lendemain des guerres yougoslaves. Limoges: Presses universitaires de Limoges, 2015. 
 Book Chapters Lydic, Lauren. “Metaphor, Metalepsis, and the Colonial Library: Deconstructing Inyenzi and Ubuhake Metaphors in Gil Courtemanche’s A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali and Julien Pierce’s Speak, Rwanda.” Bearing Witness: Perspectives on War and Peace from the Humanities. Eds. Sherrill Grace, Patrick Imbert, and Tiffany Johnstone. Montréal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2012. 53-65. 
 Lydic, Lauren. “La métaphore de pont, ou les reconstructions de la mémoire en Bosnie-Herzégovine.” Le silence et la parole au lendemain des guerres yougoslaves. Ed. Lauren Lydic et Bertrand Westphal. Limoges: Presses universitaires de Limoges, 2015. 
 Lydic, Lauren. “Un compte-rendu du vernissage de Memory Lane.” Le silence et la parole au lendemain des guerres yougoslaves. Ed. Lauren Lydic et Bertrand Westphal. Limoges: Presses universitaires de Limoges, 2015 
 Lydic, Lauren and Bertrand Westphal. “Avant‐propos : Eschyle en route pour Sarajevo.” Le silence et la parole au lendemain des guerres yougoslaves. 
Ed. Lauren Lydic et Bertrand Westphal. Limoges: 
Presses universitaires de Limoges, 2015.