Staff profile

Before teaching at Durham, I completed two BA degrees (English and Lettres Modernes) at Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle and an MA in French and Comparative Literature (Sorbonne Nouvelle/Kent), as well as a PhD in French Studies (Kent) in 2018. I was also pensionnaire at the Ecole normale supérieure, and taught French language and culture at various universities including the University of Kent, the University of London Institute in Paris and the University of Limerick in Ireland.

My forthcoming book, Le Corps-frontière: figures de l'excès chez Marie Darrieussecq, Virginie Despentes et Marina de Van (Brill, 2023), focuses on extreme representations of the body in contemporary texts and films. I suggest to analyse these works through the lens of a reconceptualisation of excess, which allows to question corporeal boundaries as well as the intersections between text and film. 

Teaching and Academic Roles

Teaching and module convening

• French Language 1: Teaching and module convenorship
• French Language 2: Teaching
• French Language 4: Teaching 

Other academic and administrative roles

• Academic Advisor
• TLRP supervisor (Target Language Research Project) for Year Abroad students
• Language Provision Committee Chair
• Athena SWAN team member
• Co-convenor of the Living Texts research group

• Gender and power in French language and culture
• Embodiment, gender and sexuality
• Translation studies
• Ecocriticism and ecopoetics
• Contemporary French/francophone literature and film

• AUPHF+ Membership Secretary:
• Co-chair of the UCML Special Interest Group for Early Career Academics in Modern Languages:
• Kent Union Teaching Award category 'Best Teacher':

Authored book

• (2023). Le Corps-frontière: figures de l'excès chez Marie Darrieusssecq, Virginie Despentes et Marina de Van. Brill.

Book review

• (2021). Le Personnel est politique: Médias, esthétique, et politique de l’autofiction chez Christine Angot, Chloé Delaume, et Nelly Arcan. Modern & Contemporary France 1.
• (2021). Beyond Return: genre and cultural politics in contemporary French fiction HOLLISTER, Lucas, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019.304 pp., hardback £90.00, ISBN: 978-1-78694-218-0. Modern & Contemporary France
• Versini, Dominique Carlini (2021). I Suffer, Therefore I Am: Engaging with Empathy in Contemporary French Women's Writing by Kathryn Robson. The French Review 94(4): 288.
• (2020). Review of Margaret Atack, Alison S. Fell, Diana Holmes, Imogen Long, Making Waves: French Feminisms and their Legacies 1975–2015. Modern Language Review (115.4): 926-927.
• (2019). Apprendre l'éducation au féminin. Acta Fabula 20(3).
• (2018). Stéphanie Pahud & Marie-Anne Paveau (éds.). 2018. « Féminismes quatrième génération textes, corps, signes », Itinéraires. Glad! (5).

Chapter in book

• (2021). How Can We Teach French Inclusively? Challenges and Resistance. In N. Meyer & E. Hoft-March, Teaching Diversity and Inclusion: Examples from a French-Speaking Classroom. Routledge.

Conference Paper

• (2021), "Genre et Refuge dans Tropique de la violence et La Mer à l’envers", Women in French UK-Ireland Biennial Conference. Maynooth University.
• (2020), "How Do We Teach French Inclusively? Challenges and Resistance", Diversity, Decolonization, and the French Curriculum (DDFC) virtual conference. University of Louisiana/Sam Houston State University.
• (2020), '"La France c'est comme ca ?": chercher refuge dans Tropique de la violence et La Mer a l'envers', ASMCF 2020 Annual Conference. University of Leeds.
• (2020), ‘Imagining a New Collective Fiction: French Environmental Documentaries’, Graduate Centre for Europe Research Seminar Series, University of Birmingham, 22 January 2020.
• (2019), ‘Teaching a CEFR-Based Literary Corpus: The Question of Implicit Meaning’, National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education National Seminar Series 2018-19, University of Limerick, 7 June 2019.
• (2019), ‘Tout perdre précarité et spectralité dans Vernon Subutex', 21st Annual Conference of ADEFFI,Queen’s University Belfast, Nothern Ireland, 21st Annual Conference of ADEFFI. Queen’s University Belfast, Nothern Ireland
• (2019), ‘Touch and the Haptic in French Women’s Writing and Filmmaking Blurred Boundaries’, Literature Image and the Screen Conference, University of Genoa/University of Oxford.
• (2018), 'The Gendered Body Out-of-Bound in Virginie Despentes' Les Jolies Choses (1998)', Institute of Modern Languages Research and Centre for Modern European Literature Research Seminar Series, University of Kent.
• (2018), ‘Marie Darrieussecq and Clara Malraux Rereading A Room of One’s Own in French’, 28th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, University of Kent, 21-24 June 2018.
• (2018), ‘« On avait envie de les toucher, d’être touchée par ce feuillage doux et velu et si vert » In Touch with the Body and the Environment in Marie Darrieussecq’s Truismes and Notre vie dans les forêts’, Centre for Contemporary Women’s Writing Research Seminar on Marie Darrieussecq, Newcastle University.

Edited Journal

• Dominique Carlini Versini & Carine Fréville (2020). Précisions sur les sciences dans l'oeuvre de Marie Darrieussecq. Dalhousie French Studies, 115

Journal Article

• (2022). Corps precaire, corps spectral: Vernon Subutex de Virginie Despentes. French Studies
• (2020). 'Mais degage'! Touch and Genderered Power Dynamics in Virginie Despentes's Novels. Fixxion 21: 42-51.
• Carlini Versini, Dominique (2020). Translating Woolf: Marie Darrieussecq’s Un lieu à soi. L'Esprit Créateur 60(3): 34-45.
• Barnet, Marie-Claire, Brunau-Zaragoza, Sophie, Carlini Versini, Dominique, Henry-Tierney, Pauline, Kemp, Simon, Kim, Annabel, McCannon, Olivia & Stojanovic, Sonja (2020). “Bringing Up Baby” Fragments de lecture plurielle, pour une nouvelle mosaïque. L'Esprit Créateur 60(3): 121-132.
• Darrieussecq, Marie & Fréville, Carine (2020). Ecrire "par tous les moyens": Marie Darrieussecq et les sciences. Dalhousie French Studies 115: 125-132.
• Carlini-Versini, Dominique (2020). Poétique de la science chez Marie Darrieussecq. Dalhousie French Studies 115: 3-9.
• (2019). Excès et métamorphoses de la peau dans Truismes de Marie Darrieussecq. Women in French Studies 27(1): 170-186.

Other (Print)

• (2022). Introduction to Caroline Lamarche's The Memory of the Air (Trans. Katherine Gregor, Heloise Press).