Dr Marta-Laura Cenedese | Chercheuse associée

Dynamiques et expériences de la globalisation
Centre Marc Bloch, Friedrichstraße 191, D-10117 Berlin
Email: marta.cenedese  ( at )  utu.fi Tél: +49(0) 30 / 20 93 70700
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Institution principale : University of Turku | Position : Chercheuse | Discipline : Littérature comparée |

Biographie

Marta-Laura Cenedese est actuellement chercheuse dans le projet (financé par la Fondation Kone) « “INTERACT: Intersectional Reading, Social Justice, and Literary Activism” » (Université de Turku). Elle a étudié à l'Université de Venise Ca' Foscari et à Sciences-Po Paris avant de terminer un doctorat en littérature française et comparée à l'Université de Cambridge. Marta est une chercheuse interdisciplinaire dont les recherches portent sur les littératures postcoloniales des XXe et XXIe siècles, les études de mémoire culturelle, les humanités médicales, les études sur la mort et les méthodologies d'écriture féministes. Elle a co-dirigé 'Connective Histories of Death' (Thanatos 9:2, 2020, avec Samira Saramo) et l'ouvrage Written on the Body: Narrative (Re)constructions of Violence(s) (Logos Verlag Berlin, 2023), et est l'autrice de la monographie Irène Némirovsky’s Russian Influences: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). Marta a été co-organisatrice de la série de séminaires SELMA Medical Humanities et coordinatrice du cercle d'étude "Narrative and Violence" (2020-2022). Elle fait partie du comité de rédaction de Storyworlds. A Journal of Narrative Studies (University of Nebraska Press) et membre du conseil d'administration du SELMA Center for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory (Université de Turku).

From “Small Stories” to “Communities of Care” With/In Narratives of Illness and Death (SMALLCOMM)

My project aims to contribute to the exploration of the ethical potential of memory and imagination within storytelling practices. In order to do so, I bring together writer Irène Némirovsky (1903–1942), artist Charlotte Salomon (1917–1943), and recent adaptations of their lives and works made for screen, theatre, and cultural institutions. The project is rooted in a mixed, interdisciplinary approach that draws on literary theory, narrative studies, adaptation studies, performance studies and cultural memory studies, and that also includes (auto)ethnographic methods. What are the ethical challenges of engaging with these works in the present moment? What effects (and affects) do the adaptations have on contemporary audiences? How could we rethink the connections between memory and imagination from the perspective of ‘imaginative encounters’? How do cultural practices perform and make sense of the past in the present? The project seeks to respond to these concerns by addressing these heterogenous works that: (a) access the past in a culturally situated (individual and collective) present; (b) create a ‘stratified cultural memory’ engaged in narrative processes of meaning-making; (c) allow encounters where memory and imagination interweave with the audience’s own social and historical experiences. By contributing to the exploration of the role that art and literature play in making sense of our past, engaging in the present, and shaping an ethical future, the project reflects on the cultural making of our societies and on their future challenges.

À présent je travaille sur plusieurs chantiers de recherche interdépendants, dont le principal est intitulé « Narration collective et récits communautaires : maladie, mort, soin » et qui explore comment les récits de maladie, mort et deuil se situent à l'intersection de réseaux communautaires et sont racontés par les communautés. 

(Pour une description plus détaillée du projet, merci de consulter la page en anglais.)

Publications

Cenedese, Marta-Laura. [forthcoming.] ‘Cyber-harassment in Myriam Leroy’s Les Yeux rouges (2019): Community, Agency, and Politics.’ Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies 13:1 (2021)

Cenedese, Marta-Laura. 2023. ‘Reimagining Irène Némirovsky’s Suite française: Circulation, Postmemory, and Reparative Reading.’ M. Gamper, J. Müller-Tamm, D. Wachter, J. Wrobel (eds), Der Wert der literarischen Zirkulation/The Value of Literary Circulation. Berlin: J. B. Metzler, pp. 115–132 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-65544-3_8

Cenedese, Marta-Laura. 2023. ‘Reflections on the Feminist Archive: The Case of the Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand.’ S. Myrebøe, V. Pàlma∂òttir and J. Sjöstedt (eds), Feminist Philosophy: Time, History and the Transformation of Thought. Stockholm: Södertörns högskola, pp. 127–144 https://sh.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1762191/FULLTEXT01.pdf

Cenedese, Marta-Laura (ed.). 2023. Written on the Body: Narrative (Re)Constructions of Violence(s). Berlin: Logos Verlag (ISBN: 978-3-8325-5285-5) https://www.logos-verlag.de/cgi-bin/engbuchmid?isbn=5285&lng=eng&id=

Cenedese, Marta-Laura. 2021. ‘Home and Exile in Irène Némirovsky’s Novella Les Mouches d’automne’. Open Philosophy 4, 211–223 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/opphil-2020-0172/html

Cenedese, Marta-Laura. 2021. Irène Némirovsky’s Russian Influences: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov. London: Palgrave Macmillan (ISBN: 978-3-030-44202-6)

Saramo, Samira and Marta-Laura Cenedese (eds). 2020. ‘Connective Histories of Death.’ Thanatos 9:2 (pp. 161, 6 peer-reviewed articles + introduction) https://thanatosjournal.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/thanatos-2-2020-final.pdf

Cenedese, Marta-Laura. 2018. ‘(Instrumental) Narratives of Postcolonial Rememory: Intersectionality and Multidirectional Memory.’ Storyworlds. A Journal of Narrative Studies 10:1–2, pp. 95–116

Cenedese, Marta. 2018. ‘Finding Home, a Multimodal Narrative of Syrian Refugees’ Everyday Life.’ entanglements, 2(1), pp. 89–96 https://entanglementsjournal.org/finding-home-a-multimodal-narrative-of-syrian-refugees-everyday-life/