Title: Lecturer in Comparative Literature
Affiliation: Université de La Réunion, France
Department: Literature
Research centers:
-DIRE, Déplacements, Identités, Regards, Ecritures (Displacement, Identity, Revision, Expression), http://dire.univ-reunion.fr
-CIRET, Centre International de Recherches et Etudes Transdisciplinaires (International Center for Transdisciplinary Research), https://ciret-transdisciplinarity.org
E-mail: benedicte.letellier@univ-reunion.fr
Fields: Arabic literature and criticism, literary theory, translation studies, poetry, comparativism, transdisciplinarity, philosophy of science, sufism.
Research interest:
My current research is focused on the transdisciplinary aspects in literature. It involves many general questions: Can literature be considered as a science? Why does science need literature to progress? How does literature support the process of scientific inquiry? More precisely, I study the transdisciplinary links between literature and science through the concept of the universe. How do science and literature see and understand the universe? How do they say and prove what they observe about the universe? This research is part of the Third International Congress of Transdisciplinarity organized by CIRET, UNESCO and ENAH (Mexico) and will be the subject of a book co-written with Hélène Fau.
Education:
Related professional experience and appointments, Université de La Réunion and CIRET:
Peer reviewer for academic journals:
Middle Eastern Literatures, Nouvelles Études Francophones, Les cahiers du Cerfee, Al-tawâsul al-adabî, TrOPICS.
Current courses:
Undergraduate level
Graduate level