Catherine Rovera

Catherine Rovera is a Lecturer in English language and literature at Paris-Dauphine University, where she has held a faculty position since 2001. She serves as head of the Joyce and Anglophone Modernism research team (since 2015) and is a member of the PSL Academic Senate.

Her academic background includes studies at the École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud, a teaching degree in English, and a doctorate from the University of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle.

Dr. Rovera specializes in modernist manuscript studies and genetic criticism, with particular expertise on Jean Rhys, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce. Her research examines the creative processes behind literary works, tracing textual evolution from initial drafts to final publications. She has made significant contributions to understanding the relationship between Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea and Brontë's Jane Eyre, the influence of music hall culture on modernist writing, and the genesis of Caribbean literary cycles through the Schwarz-Bart collection.

Her publications demonstrate a consistent focus on textual genesis across modernist and postcolonial contexts, with her 2020 edited volume exploring creative processes in British and Irish literature and her 2015 monograph establishing groundbreaking connections between Creole identity and literary madness.

Dr. Rovera has secured research funding including a Hubert Curien Partnership (2007-2009) for codicological studies of modern manuscripts and Labex TransferS support for her monograph. She co-organized an international conference on genetic criticism in 2013 and currently coordinates the Woolf seminar.

She actively collaborates with multiple research teams including the Joyce and Anglophone Modernism Team, Francophone Manuscripts Team, and Schwarz-Bart Group, currently preparing a genetic edition of Virginia Woolf's preparatory notebooks for Phases of Fiction.