Jeanne-Marie Carton-Charon is a lecturer at Lyon 3 Jean Moulin University. She studied at the universities of Caen-Basse Normandie and Paris 3. Her interests are in Irish literature and culture, and more particularly in the contemporary novel and women writers. She holds a Phd in Irish Studies (Frontiers and Displacements in Jennifer Johnston’s novels) and is a member of the SOFEIR. Her recent published articles are a chapter on Jennifer Johnston in Irish Women Writers (Ed. Sylvie Mikowscki and Bertrand Cardin, Presses Universitaires de Caen), an article on Colum Mc Cann’s Transatlantic (‘The Senator and the People’) in Autonomies et Indépendances, Le nationalisme au XXIe siècle, Ed. Paloma Otaola and Stephanie Bory, Connaissances et Savoirs), and an article on the singer Christy Moore in Non Violent Resistance, Counter-Discourse in Irish Culture : ‘Christy Moore on Stage : ‘Loss, Echoes and Movement’ (Ed. Agnès Maillot and Jennifer Bruen, Peter Lang, 2018). Her present research focusses on the reception of the works of three Irish women writers (Edna O’Brien, Jennifer Johnston and Nuala O’Faolain), by readers in France, Ireland and the US. Her research laboratory is the IETT (Institut de Recherche Transtextuelles et Transculturelles).
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