Prof Guillemette Bolens

Guillemette Bolens is Professor of Medieval English Literature and Comparative Literature at the University of Geneva. Her research interests are in the history of the body and kinesic analysis in literature and art. Her approach is interdisciplinary, linking the fields of narratology, gesture studies, kinesic intelligence, embodied cognition, and kinesthetic semiotics. She is the author of La Logique du corps articulaire: les articulations du corps humain dans la littérature occidentale (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2000, Latsis Prize and Barbour Award); The Style of Gestures: Embodiment and Cognition in Literary Narrative (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012); and L’Humour et le savoir des corps: Don Quichotte, Tristram Shandy et le rire du lecteur (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2016). She has published on embodiment and kinesis in Homer, Virgil, Beowulf, Chrétien de Troyes, Layamon, the Gawain Poet, Chaucer, Beryn, Cervantes, Sterne, Proust, Joyce, Chaplin, Keaton, Tati, and Eddie Izzard.