Dr Nina Rolland

• PhD/Doctorat in Comparative Literature (University of Kent/Paris 3 Sorbonne)
• Master in Comparative Literature (Paris 4 Sorbonne)
• BA (Licence) in Lettres Modernes (Paris 4 Sorbonne)
• BA (Licence) in Philosophy (Paris 10)

Before joining the University of Birmingham in September 2017 I was a Teaching Fellow in French and Comparative Literature at the University of St Andrews.

I graduated with a BA in French and an MA in Comparative Literature from the Université Sorbonne - Paris 4 before completing my PhD in 2016, which was jointly supervised by the Universities of Kent and Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3. I also hold a BA in Philosophy from Paris 10 and a PGCHE from the University of Kent.

I have taught courses on French Language, French Literature and Culture and Comparative Literature at the University of St Andrews, the University of Kent, and Saint Bonaventure University. I also taught French at the Institut français of Düsseldorf.

My current research, within the context of The Baudelaire Song Project, focuses on the analysis of song settings of poems by Baudelaire.

My broader research interests lie in 19^th and 20^th century European literature - particularly French, British, and German literature - and are situated at the intersection of varied disciplines such as word and music studies, gender studies, and medical humanities. They centre on three main areas: the relations between music and literature, gender and the arts, and representations of the body. These themes were connected in my doctoral thesis entitled ‘Bodies in Composition: Women, Music and the Body in Nineteenth-Century European Literature’, in which I focussed on the representation of female musicians. Analysing texts by George Sand, Balzac, Flaubert, George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, E.T.A Hoffmann, Eichendorff, and Thomas Mann, I examined the female body as a key juncture between music and literature.