Professor Marie-Claude Canova-Green

Marie-Claude’s research interests include C17th and C18th French literature and culture.

Staff details

Position

Professor of French

Department

English and Creative Writing

Email

m.canova-green (@gold.ac.uk)

Marie-Claude is Professor of French literature at Goldsmiths. Her research and recent publications have concentrated on the political use of early modern European festivals and the relationship between France and England in the seventeenth century. She is one of the Series editors of European Festival Studies 1450-1700 for Brepols. She also has an interest in the concept of the dual royal body and has recently published a monograph on Faire le roi. L’autre corps de Louis XIII. She is currently working on the queen’s body and its public performance in seventeenth-century France.

Academic qualifications

  • PhD English, Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle 1982
  • PhD French, Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle 1991

Teaching and supervision

  • Marie-Claude currently teaches on the following modules: 'Studies in Comparative Literature', 'Drama and Transgression', and 'The Classic Fairy Tale'.
  • She also contributes to 'Explorations' and 'The Short Story'.

Publications and research outputs

Book

Canova-Green, Marie-Claude and Matsumoto, Naomi. 2024. Christophe Ballard/Michel Richard de Lalande Ballet de La Jeunesse. Paris: Classiques Garnier.

Canova-Green, Marie-Claude. 2018. Faire le roi. L'autre corps de Louis XIII. Paris: Fayard. ISBN 9782213709383

Canova-Green, Marie-Claude and Nedelec, Claudine. 2012. Ballets pour Louis XIII. Danse et jeux de transgression (1622-1638). Toulouse: Société de Littératures Classiques. ISBN 978-2-908728-69-9

Edited Book

Canova-Green, Marie-Claude and Wolfson, Sara, eds. 2020. The Wedding of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, 1625. Celebrations and Controversy. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers. ISBN 9782503585321

Canova-Green, Marie-Claude; Chaouche, Sabine; Courtes, Noemie and Requemora, Sylvie, eds. 2015. Jean-Francois Regnard, Theatre francais, vol. 1. Paris: Garnier. ISBN 978-2-8124-3303-0

Canova-Green, Marie-Claude and Andrews, Jean, eds. 2013. Writing Royal Entries in early Modern Europe. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols. ISBN 978-2-503-53602-6

Book Section

Canova-Green, Marie-Claude and Matsumoto, Naomi. 2024. Exoticism or Eclecticism? Carnival at Court and the Mascarade du Roy de la Chine. In: Marie-Claude Canova-Green, ed. Spectacular Orientalism in Early Modern Europe. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols. ISBN 9782503610566

Canova-Green, Marie-Claude. 2023. Du vainqueur de la Fronde a l'Imperator triomphant: la medaille du retour du roi a Paris en 1652. In: Yvan Loskoutoff, ed. Les médailles de Louis XIV et leur livre II. Rouen: PURH. ISBN 9791024017235

Canova-Green, Marie-Claude. 2021. À quoi sert un livret de ballet de cour au XVIIe siècle? (1610-1681). In: Marie Cleren; Caroline Mounier-Vehier; Laura Soudy-Quazuguel and Celine Torrent, eds. Formes, emplois et évolution du livret de ballet de la Renaissance à nos jours. Paris: Classiques Garnier, pp. 55-69. ISBN 9782406120025

Article

Canova-Green, Marie-Claude. 2021. “Dancing Queen”: The Court Ballets of Anne of Austria, Queen of France (1615-1635). The Castle Chronicles. Annals, 8(74), ISSN 0239-4898

Canova-Green, Marie-Claude. 2021. D'infante a reine de France: le voyage nuptial d'Anne et de Marie-Therese d'Autriche. Phaeton, ISSN 2430-5421

Canova-Green, Marie-Claude. 2020. Sens et fonctions de l’ornement dans l’entrée royale en France au XVIIe siècle. Arti dello spettacolo / Performing Arts Journal, 6, pp. 174-180. ISSN 2421-2679

Media engagements

2015: The King who invented ballet: Louis XIV and the noble art of dance
A BBC4 programme on King Louis XIV and ballet

2018: Les Racines du présent : ‘En chair et en os. Comment incarner le pouvoir’
A RCF radio programme on the representation and performance of power