Professeurs invités

Juin 2025

Matthew ROTH (Professeur à l'université privée évangélique chrétienne Messiah, Pennsylvania), Chercheur invité du 2 au 22 juin 2025 par le Laboratoire CAS (EA 801) et le DEMA de l’Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès.
Référente : Marie Bouchet

Matthew Roth is a Professor of English. His area of expertise is Contemporary Poetry, Creative Writing, Vladimir Nabokov.
He is the author of two books of poems, Rains Rain (FutureCycle Press) and Bird Silence (Woodley Press). His poems have been published in many national journals, including Verse, American Literary Review, Antioch Review, and 32 Poems. He is the current vice-president of the International Vladimir Nabokov Society, and he has published a number of frequently cited articles on Nabokov’s novel, Pale Fire. He also serves as Associate Reviews Editor for the Nabokov Online Journal and as the coordinator of the Nabokov Online Seminars.

Mai 2025

Geoffrey COX (Senior Lecturer, Department of Media, Humanities and the Arts, University of Huddersfield), Chercheur invité du 28 avril au 16 mai 2025 par le Laboratoire CAS (EA 801) et le DEMA de l’Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès.
Référente : Anita Jorge

Geoffrey Cox began his musical career in London as a guitarist in a post-punk, new wave band in 1979. Rejecting all forms of structured musical learning, he submerged himself in various rock groups before finally embarking on a course of musical study at Liverpool Community College in 1989 which led to the formation of a jazz-influenced quintet playing mostly his own music. This, in turn, led to an exploration of classical and contemporary music through an HND. He completed a First class honours degree in composition at Huddersfield in 1999 and a PhD in 2007 which focuses on the use of borrowed material in sampled and written form across a wide variety of musical genres. Other specialisms include Popular Musicology (the history and effect of technological developments on popular music) and working with visual images in a musical context, work which has become increasingly important to his output.


Lene ØSTERMARK-JOHANSEN (Professeure à l'Université de Copenhague), Chercheuse invitée du 12 au 26 mai 2025 par le Laboratoire CAS (EA 801) et le DEMA de l’Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès.
Référente : Catherine Delyfer

In Lene's words: "I hold joint degrees in English literature and art history, and the majority of my research centres on word-image relations, primarily in the nineteenth century. My interests have long revolved around literary and visual portraiture, ekphrasis, and the interrelationship between language, sculpture and literature. I am interested in the literary forms chosen for writing about sculpture in the nineteenth century, in the stratification of language and in the way in which language can evoke three-dimensionality. Another current research interest is nineteenth-century cosmopolitanism, going back to some of my earlier work about the Victorian reception of the Italian Renaissance.
From 2021 to 2025 I am the Principal Investigator of the Velux-funded research project 'Where Love Happens: Topographies of Emotions in Nineteenth-Century European Literature'.
My research group examines and challenges the concept of romantic love from a broad range of philosophical, literary, technological and legal viewpoints. My own research project is related to emotions and movement, to the love tourism generated by the great love stories from Héloïse and Abelard onwards. The literary pilgrimages inspired by Dante, Shakespeare, Rousseau, and the Brontës are at the heart of my research, as I examine how reading about love moves lovers out of their private spheres and into European tourism."
 

Février 2025

Kirsten SHEPHERD-BARR (Professor of English and Theatre Studies; Tutorial Fellow, St Catherine's College, Oxford University), Chercheuse invitée du 9 au 22 février 2025 par le Laboratoire CAS (EA 801) et le DEMA de l’Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès.
Référente : Emeline Jouve

In Kirsten's words: "My main research interests lie within drama and theatre studies: the interaction between theatre and science; the writings of Henrik Ibsen; and the relationship between modernism and theatrical performance. Amongst my recent publications are The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science (2020), Modern Drama: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2016), Twentieth-Century Approaches to Literature: Late Victorian into Modern (OUP, 2016, co-edited with Laura Marcus and Michele Mendelssohn), and several book chapters and articles in all three of these research fields.
With regard to theatre and science, my book Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett (Columbia University Press, 2015), which was supported by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in 2011-12, traces how the central ideas of evolutionary theory have made their way onto the stage, either directly or indirectly, since the 1820s. You can read Dan Rebellato's review of the book in Contemporary Theatre Review here. This work on theatrical engagements with evolutionary ideas stems from my second book, Science on Stage: From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen (Princeton University Press, 2006; paperback 2012), and from the session I organized and chaired on Darwin and the Stage for the international Darwin Festival in Cambridge (2009). I have also published articles on theatre and science in Women: A Cultural Review, American Scientist, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, Physics World, Nature, and Gramma, and together with Dr Carina Bartleet I co-edited two special issues of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (December 2013 and September 2014) on “New Directions in Theatre and Science.” My chapter on nineteenth-century theatre's engagements with mechanisms of transmission appears in Theatres of Contagion, ed. Fintan Walsh (2019). I am also developing a research interest in theatre, technology, and backstage labor, and gave a keynote address on this topic at the 2018 conference of the British Society for Literature and Science. A chapter based on this material appears in my Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science. Also within the realm of theatre and science, I am developing research on theatre and climate change, resulting in two publications co-authored with Dr Hannah Simpson (2022 and 2023).
My work on Ibsen and on theatrical modernism began with my first book, Ibsen and Early Modernist Theatre, 1890-1900 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997), a comparison of the first British and French productions of Ibsen’s plays and the critical responses to them in relation to modernism and the avant-garde theatre. Since then I have continued to explore the role of theatrical performance within the modernist movement, for example looking at the use of scent in the Théâtre d’Art’s synaesthetic production of Song of Songs in 1891 (Theatre Research International), analyzing Edvard Munch’s set designs for Ibsen plays produced by Max Reinhardt (Nordic Theatre Studies), rethinking Ibsen’s “globalism” (Ibsen Studies), and reconsidering Joyce’s play Exiles within its theatrical context (Theatre Research International). To hear me discussing Ibsen on Melvyn Bragg's "In Our Time" in May 2018, listen here. My chapter on gender and theatricality in Hedda Gabler appears in Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler: Philosophical Perspectives, ed. Kristin Gjesdal (OUP, 2017). It looks closely at Elizabeth Robins, actress, novelist, playwrights, feminist writer and activist, who played the first Hedda in London and was one of the key figures in Ibsen's reception in Britain. Together with Dr Alexandra Paddock I wrote the 'Elizabeth Robins' entry for Oxford Bibliographies On-Line for Oxford University Press (2018) which places Robins more prominently within nineteenth-century studies."

Octobre 2024

Ian HEYWOOD (Professeur à l'niversité de Roehampton), Chercheur invité du 14 au 25 octobre 2024 par le Laboratoire CAS (EA 801) et le DEMA de l’Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès.
Référente : référente : Rachel Rogers

Biography (in Ian's words): "I have spent most of my career at the University of Roehampton. I became Professor of English in 2007 and since then I have been Director of the Centre for Research in Romanticism, and leader of the ‘Romantic Illustration Network’. The network has recently produced a volume of essays, Romanticism and Illustration (Cambridge University Press, 2019) which I co-edited with Susan Matthews and Mary L. Shannon. I was President of BARS (British Association for Romantic Studies) from 2015 to 2019.
Though I have worked on many areas of British literature, most of my research now focuses on the radical politics and visual culture of the period 1750-1850, especially political caricature. I established a new paradigm for caricature studies in Romanticism and Caricature (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and my recent books Queen Caroline and the Power of Caricature in Georgian England (Palgrave 2023) and The Rise of Victorian Caricature (Palgrave 2020) fill a gap in our knowledge of the evolution of graphic satire.
In addition to my monographs Bloody Romanticism (Palgrave 2006) and The Revolution in Popular Literature (2004), I also co-edited Spain in British Romanticism (Palgrave, 2018) and The Gordon Riots (2012).
My research has been supported by awards from the AHRC, Leverhulme, British Academy, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) and many libraries and collections including the Lewis Walpole, Beinecke, Huntington, Harry Ransom, and Wilhelm Busch Museum of Caricature.
I have given keynote talks and invited lectures in many countries including Taiwan, Japan, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Holland, and Sweden.
I welcome applications for research supervision in any of my areas of expertise."

Jens TEMMEN (Professeur à l'université Heinrich-Heine de Düsseldorf), Chercheur invité du 14 au 25 octobre 2024 par le Laboratoire CAS (EA 801) et le DEMA de l’Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès.
Référente : Claire Cazajous-Augé

Jens Temmen is an assistant professor for American Studies at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf (Germany) and Fellow of the Young Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz (Germany). He received his PhD in American Studies as part of his PhD fellowship with the Research Training Group minor cosmopolitanisms at the University of Potsdam. His first monograph is titled The Territorialities of US Imperialism(s) (Universitätsverlag Winter) and was published in 2020. He has done research and has published in the areas of postcolonial studies, transpacific studies, the study of US imperialism, territoriality, posthuman studies and astroculture. Jens Temmen is also co-editor of the book series titled Critical Futures and published with transcript. Since 2021, he is co-conductor of an interdisciplinary teaching and research project titled “Critical Outer Space Studies“ (funded by UNIVERSEH). In his second book project, Jens employs an ecocritical and posthuman studies lens to analyze representations of Mars colonization in contemporary US literature and culture.