Catherine Delyfer

Professor Catherine Delyfer is affiliated with the Centre for Anglophone Studies (CAS) at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, specializing in 19th-early 20th century British literature, art, and gender studies with a focus on intermediality.

• Bourdieu Aggregation in English (1993)
• Doctorate from Bordeaux Montaigne University (1998)
• HDR from University of Poitiers (2011)

Research Themes:

• Fin-de-siècle aestheticism and proto-modernism
• Text/image relationships in Victorian/Edwardian works
• Women artists and writers (1860-1940)
• Avian symbolism in British art
• Victorian interiors and domestic spaces
• Intermediality in portraiture

Recent Publications (2016-2024) analyze:

• Aesthetic intersections in De Morgan and Spartali Stillman's paintings
• Vernon Lee's ecological and spatial theories
• Lucas Malet's subversive gothic narratives
• Darwinian grotesquerie in Beardsley's works
• Craft transmission in Jessie King's illustrations
• Periodical networks in European modernity