Cathy Roche-Liger wrote the first French thesis on the Irish poet Paul Durcan in 2011. It studies his pictorial poetics. She has written several articles about Paul Durcan, especially about his ekphraseis. She has also worked on W.H. Auden, Michael Longley, John Montague, Harry Clifton, Trevor Joyce and Geoffrey Squires’ poetry. She is particularly interested both in poetry and in the interactions between the visual and the verbal. She is a member of FoReLL, University of Poitiers (France).
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
CO-DIRECTION OF REVIEW ISSUES
Cathy Roche-Liger, Marcin Stawiarski (dir.), Traversées, Polysèmes 16, revue.org, autumn 2016 (http://polysemes.revues.org/1451 )
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
« Réponse intermédiale de Paul Durcan à Michael Longley » in Michel Briand, Anne-Cécile Guilbard (dir.), Autour du Tiers Pictural, Thanks to Liliane Louvel, Rennes, La Licorne, PUR, 2014, pp. 115-131
« Transparence et opacité des ekphraseis et des palimpsestes de Paul Durcan », in Marie Laniel et Pascale Tollance (dir.), La Transparence, Polysèmes, n°13, spring 2015, pp. 71-85 (http://polysemes.revues.org/350 ).
« Rewriting Historical Trauma: John Montague and Paul Durcan as Two Figures of the Irish Bard », in Estelle Epinoux et Nathalie Martinière (dir.), Rewriting in 20th –21st Centuries: Aesthetic Choice or Political Act?, Paris, Michel Houdiard, October 2015, pp. 189-204
« Punctuation Marks and Points of Detail in Paul Durcan’s Intermedial Poetry » in Laurence Petit et Pascale Tollance (dir.), Point, Dot, Period … The Dynamics of Punctuation in Text and Image, Cambridge Scholars, April 2016, pp. 68-83.
« Marge, mouvement et jouissance dans la poésie intermédiale de Paul Durcan » in Marges et écritures dans la littérature, Arselène Ben Farah (dir.), Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines de Sfax (Tunisia), URLDC (Unité de Recherche en Littérature, Discours et Civilisation), Sfax, Nouha Éditions, 2016, pp.161-175.
« Paul Durcan’s Ireland in a Time of Crisis in Praise in which I Live and Move and Have my Being » in Estelle Epinoux, Frank Healy (dir.), Post Celtic Tiger Ireland: Exploring New Cultural Spaces, Cambridge Scholars, 2016, pp. 142-159.
« L’Écriture du jaune et les traversées de lumière dans The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass de Harry Clifton », in Cathy Roche-Liger et Marcin Stawiarski (dir.), Traversées, Polysèmes 16, revue.org, autumn 2016 (http://polysemes.revues.org/1467)
« The Animal Metamorphoses of the Artist in Paul Durcan’s Intermedial Poetry » in Daragh O’Connel, Michael G. Kelly (dir.), Comparative Becomings, Studies in Transition, Peter Lang, 2017, pp. 157-175.