Shakespeare en devenir

Kjerstin Aukrust has a Ph.D. in French Literature from the University of Oslo. Her doctoral thesis, Violences du corps. Une étude du macabre chez Ronsard, Aubigné et Chassignet, was completed in 2008. In 2008, she organised an international conference at the University of Oslo, which resulted in the publication of the proceedings two years later: Corps sanglants, souffrants et macabres. La représentation de la violence faite au corps en Europe aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, Charlotte Bouteille-Meister and Kjerstin Aukrust, eds, Paris, Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2010. In addition to a contribution in this anthology (« J’ouvre mon estomac – Agrippa d’Aubigné et le corps macabre »), she has published an article in the volume Fortune and Fatality. Performing the tragic in early modern France, Desmond Hosford and Charles Wrightington, eds, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008, (« The Image(s) of the tragic in Les Tragiques by Agrippa d’Aubigné ») and also contributes with an essay on « Le spectacle de la corruption chez Jean-Baptiste Chassignet » in the forthcoming anthology Pensée et représentations de la corruption à l’âge baroque en France (1580-1640), Adrien Paschoud and Frank Lestringant, eds, Genève, Éditions Droz, to be published in 2011.