curriculum vitae

Dr. Adrienne Janus   

Université de Tours, France

adrienne.janus@univ-tours.fr

Educational Background and Qualifications 

1997-2004 Ph.D. Stanford University (Comparative Literature: English, French, German)

1996-1997 M.A. Queen’s University, Belfast (Irish Writing)

1991-1995 B.A. Princeton University (Comparative Literature: English, French, German)

9/2002-8/2003: Georges Lurcy Trust fellowship, doctoral research in France

9/1997-8/2004: doctoral fellowship, Stanford Division of Languages, Cultures and Literatures

6/2000-8/2000: doctoral fellowship, The School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University

1991-1995: undergraduate fellowship, Pell grant, Princeton University class of 1921

Employment History

2016 – Present: Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences), English and Theatre / Interactions culturelles et discursives (ICD- EA 6297) ; Academic Coordinator, Théâtre Universitaire (Troupe Universitaire de Tours), Université de Tours.

April 2016:  Invited Professor, English Department / CREA, Université de Paris X (Nanterre, France).

2006 – 2016:  Lecturer, English, Comparative Literature and Visual Culture, The University of Aberdeen; Associate Lecturer, Department of Music, The University of Aberdeen.

2012 - 2016: Undergraduate programme coordinator, Literature in a World Context, The University of Aberdeen.

09/2005 - 01/2006: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Irish Studies, Queen’s University, Belfast.

01/2005 - 09/ 2005: Post-Doctoral Lecturer in French Language and Culture, Division of Languages, Culture and Literature, Stanford University.

09/2004 - 01/2005: Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow, Introduction to the Humanities (IHUM), Stanford University.

 **Two Maternity leaves: 07/ 2007 – 03/2008; 07/2010 – 03/ 2011.

Refereed PUBLICATIONS

·         Ed.(with Juliana Louphoukhine), «(Re)Nascent Modernisms: Embracing Neophilia, Neophobia, and the Modernist's Renaissances» édition spéciale, Sillages Critiques, forthcoming 2023

·         ‘The Ears of the Tongue’: Performing the Irish and Harlem Renaissances: W.B. Yeats, Langston Hughes, Samuel Beckett,”«(Re)Nascent Modernisms” Sillages Critiques, 2023

·         «A l’écoute dans Comment C’est/How It Is»  “Samuel Beckett,” La Revue des Lettres modernes, Classiques Garnier, forthcoming 2023

 “Listening Without Localizing: The Wandering Poetics of Gertrude Stein and Samuel Beckett,” The Wanderings of Modernism: Errancy, Identity, and Aesthetics in Interwar Modernist Literature, eds., Bozhkova, Drouin, Hercend, Seminal Modernisms, Clemson University Press, forthcoming, 2023

 “Reading in the Dark: After Theory,” l’Atelier: Trouble dans la théorie 13.2 (2022): 48-67. https://ojs.parisnanterre.fr/index.php/latelier/article/view/599

«À l’Ecoute des atmosphères multimédia: Beckett et Joyce à l’ère de la transmission technologique» Frontières Sonores du Littéraire, Ouvrage Collectif du Projet Frontières du Littéraire (28.06.2021) https://flt.hypotheses.org/1132

 “Murmur, Hum, Shout, Crash! Listening, Suddenness and Passing Time with Beckett and Contemporary Installation and Video Art,”Angles: The Torn Object: Experimentation in Contemporary Anglophone Literature, Art and Film 13.1 (2021) https://doi.org/10.4000/angles.4797

 À l'écoute de Simone Weil: La transposition du sens,”  Simone Weil, réception et transposition, ed. Chenavier / Pavel (Paris: Garnier Classiques, 2018).

 “Jean-Luc Nancy and the Image of Visual Culture,” Introduction to Jean-Luc Nancy and Visual Culture, eds. Janus and Giunta (Edinburgh University Press, 2016).

 “Light, Mass and the Particulate Image: Visual Culture, Invisible Nature” in Jean-Luc Nancy and Visual Culture, ed. Janus and Giunta (Edinburgh University Press, 2016).

 “Presence and Disappearance: Jean-Luc Nancy in conversation with Soun-Gui Kim,” trans. Adrienne Janus, in Jean-Luc Nancy and Visual Culture, eds. Janus and Giunta (Edinburgh University Press, 2016).

 “The Image: Mimesis and Methexis,” Jean-Luc Nancy, trans. Adrienne Janus, in Jean-Luc Nancy and Visual Culture, eds. Janus and Giunta (Edinburgh University Press, 2016).

“Nico Israel, ‘Spirals: The Whirled Image in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art,’” (review) Modern Language Review, 111.3: 2016.

 “Jubilation ex nihilo: Beckett, Joyce, et l’événement du rire,” Littérature et Jubiliation , ed. Eric Benoit (Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2015).

 “Listening high and low: Yeats, Joyce, Beckett and the condition of music in modernist Irish literature” in Re-Imagining Ireland: Ireland and Popular Culture, ed. Sylvie Mikowski (Peter Lang, 2014): 83-102.

 “Laughter and the limits of identity: Joyce, Beckett and the philosophical anthropology of laughter,” Études Irlandaises 38.1 (2013): 173-186.

 “Soundings: The Secret of Water and the Resonance of the Image,” The Senses and Society: Special Issue on Jean-Luc Nancy 8.1 (2013): 72 - 84.

“Funny Walks,” The Vacuum (special issue for the Beckett Centenary Festival): 54 (2012).

"Gravity Light," exhibition catalogue for Unrelated Incidents: John Wood and Paul Harrison,  Gallery West, The Hague, 13.10.2012 - 01.12.2012.

“Listening:  Jean-Luc Nancy and the anti-ocular turn in continental philosophy and critical theory” Comparative Literature 63.2 (2011): 182-202.

 “From ‘Ha he hi ho hu. Mummum’ to ‘Haw! Hell! Haw!’: Listening to laughter in Joyce and Beckett” Journal of Modern Literature 32.3 (2009): 144-166.

 “In one ear and out the others: Beckett.Mahon.Muldoon,” Journal of Modern Literature 30.2 (2007): 180-196.

“Linda Collinge, ‘Beckett traduit Beckett: l’imaginaire en traduction,’” (review) Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature, 3.2: 2002.

“Mnemosyne and the Mislaid Pen:  the poetics of memory in Heaney, Longley and McGuckian,” Last Before America.  Ed. Brearton & Hughes (Belfast:  Blackstaff, 2001), 54-68.

“Song, murmurs and laughter in Irish Writing,” Critical Ireland, Ed. Kelly & Gillis.  (Dublin:  Four Courts, 2001), 115-123.

Monographs (book projects)

Listening: Samuel Beckett and the Murmurs of Modernity, 1848 -1968

Irish Laughter, French Infections, German Doctors

INVITED LECTURES and CONFERENCE PAPERS

Conference paper, “Of bombs and bugs, airplanes and birds and things that begin with the letter ‘M’” Le modernisme en errance / The Wanderings of Modernism, Sorbonne Université, Paris, Jan 2020.

Conference paper (undelivered), “Strange Couplings, French Connections, and Various Encounters of the Ground by Foot, Leg and Body,” International Yeats Society Annual Conference, Paris, December 2019.

Conference paper, “Resisting Modernist Movements,” Troublesome Modernisms, British Association of Modernist Studies Annual Conference, London, June, 2019.

Conference paper, “Stillness in the Midst of Revolutionary Storms,” Revolutions, Paris SAES/SEMS, June, 2018.

Conference paper, “Le corps en résonance,” Le corps à l'oeuvre (journée d'étude), Université de Tours, 19 avril, 2018.

Invited speaker, “À l'écoute de Simone Weil: La transposition du sens,”  Simone Weil, réception et transposition, University of Chicago / Centre Culturel International de Cérisy-la-Salle, France, August, 2017.

Invited speaker, “The Revenge of the Ear: Dyadic Modernism and the Scene of Listening,” Société d'études modernistes, Institut du monde anglophones, Paris, France, 18 Nov 2016.

Invited speaker, “Strange Resonance: Yeats, MacNeice, Muldoon,” Centre de Recherche Anglophone, Université de Paris X, Nanterre, Feb. 2015.

Invited speaker, “A coincidence of contraries: Beckett, Stockhausen and the materialities of sound on and around May ’68,” Research Seminar, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia, March 19 2015.

Invited Speaker, “Jubilation ex nihilo: Beckett, Joyce,” Modernités’ Research Seminar, University of Bordeaux 3, France, 6 February 2015.

Conference paper, “Irish Laughter, French Infections, German Doctors,” special panel on laughter (organiser), Society for French Studies 55th Annual Conference, University of Aberdeen, 1 July 2014.

 Symposium paper, “Simone Weil: Modern mystic or madwoman?” Women Modernists and Spirituality, Scottish Network of Modernist Studies, University of Stirling, 23 May, 2014.

 Invited panel speaker, “Resonance Forms: Emily Dickinson, Paul Muldoon, Robert Creeley,” Irish and American Poetry: A Symposium in honour of Michael Allen, 1 November 2013, Queens University, Belfast.

 Symposium paper, “Yeats and the French connection: Seven Murmurs, Seven Woods,” Europe, Scottish Network of Modernist Studies, University of Glasgow, 19 Oct 2013.

 Invited speaker, “Boxes and Bubbles: Michel Serres and Peter Sloterdijk,” research seminar, Philosophy Department, University of Dundee, 18 September 2013.

 Conference paper, “Shout, murmur, crash, hum:  Listening to time in Beckett and contemporary performance art,” Performance Studies International, Stanford University, 24 June 2013.

 Invited panellist, “The materialities of sound on and around May 1968,” special panel, Writing Materialities of Sound,  American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, University of Toronto, 7 April 2013.

 Invited speaker, “Joyce, Beckett and the Philosophical Anthropology of Laughter,” School of English and Critical Studies research seminar, University of Glasgow, 8 November, 2012.

Invited panellist, “A Minimalist and a Maximalist: Beckett and Stockhausen on and around May ’68” European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, University of Kent, 9 September 2012.

Invited speaker, Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, The University of Aberdeen, 22 March 2012.

Invited speaker, “The Sense of Water and the Resonance of the Image,” Symposium: A Breath for Nothing…,  Central St. Martin’s College of Art, London, June, 2012.

Invited speaker, “‘Will this never finish?’ Beckett and Modernism,” The Scottish Universities International Summer School (July, 2011 & July, 2012).

Invited speaker, Music department research seminar, The University of Aberdeen, 9 Feb 2012.

Invited speaker, “Listening: Jean-Luc Nancy and the anti-ocular turn,” Research Seminar, Department of Music and Musicology, University College Cork, January 2010.

Invited speaker, “Laughter and the limits of identity,” Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, University College London, March 2009.

Invited speaker, “The Savage God: Yeats and the French Connection,” Yeats International Summer School,  August 2006.

 Conference paper, “‘Tears and Laughter, so much Gaelic’?: Laughter as Oral Performance”Orality and Modern Irish Culture Conference, University of Galway, June 2006.

 Invited speaker, “Laughter and the limits of identity,” Institute for Irish Studies Research Seminar Series, Queens University, Belfast, November, 2005.

 “In one ear and out the others: Beckett..Mahon.Muldoon.” Modern Language Association annual  conference. San Diego, December, 2003.

 Conference paper, “Painful bodies, ear-aches, violent laughter: the invention of language in Céline and Beckett,” French and Comparative Literature Conference, Stanford University, February 2003.

Conference paper, “Musical Catalysts and Acoustic Recollection in Proust and Beckett,” French and comparative literature conference, U.C. Berkeley, April 2002.

 Exhibitions / Public Engagement : 

Le corps à l'oeuvre (avec Nicole Denoit, Université de Tours), journée d'étude, Tours, 19 Avril,

Ardente Irlande : l’écriture poétique entre contrainte et liberté (journée d'étude, March, 2018, Université de Tours)

Tom Stoppard's The Hard Problem / Qu'est-ce que la conscience ? (theatrical reading and debate, November, 2017, Université de Tours)

The Art of Performance, 30 May 2015, May Festival, University of Aberdeen

Grants

Carnegie Small Research Grant (University of Toronto, Marshall McCluhan Archives) April, 2013.

Principal’s Excellence Research Fund, The University of Aberdeen, June, 2013. 

Georges Lurcy fellowship (1 year doctoral research funding in France), 2003.

 Editorial Work

Citation editor for Malcolm DeBevoise’s translation, Pascale Casanova, The World Republic of Letters, Harvard University Press, 2007.

Academic Service

Peer Reviewer: L’Atelier (http://revues.u-paris10.fr/index.php/latelier); Angles (SAES société d'anglicistes); Edinburgh University Press; Comparative Literature (Duke University Press); Poetics Today (Duke University Press); Studies in the Novel (Johns Hopkins University Press); French Studies (Oxford University Press); Syracuse University Press.

Referee: Humanities Research Council of Canada; The Royal Society of Edinburgh; Architectures of Alterity, The University of Edinburgh.

 Ph.D supervision / Direction de thèse Ph.D:

Pernille Ravn (AHRC funded, 2016-2019), The Sonic Text: Mapping intermingled senses, media and languages in the transnational poetic practices of Caroline Bergvall and Cia Rinne. (2016-2018*)

Hyginus Onura, The Spatial Imagination in the Nigerian Novel (2016)

co-supervisor: Raihan Rosman, Women and Their Identities in Works of Monica Ali, Leila Aboulela, Yasmin Hai and Shelina Zahra Janmohamed. (2016)

co-supervisor: Edion Obaretin, Rethinking Counterterrorism: A Critical Study of the Geographies of Islamic Terrorism in Selected Literary Works  (Ph.D., Comparative Literature, awarded 2018*)

1st supervisor, Zulfqar Awan, Fragmentation of the Self: Lacanian perspectives on Jean Rhys’ longer fiction (Ph.D, English awarded 2014)

1st supervisor, Valéria Sgueglia, Edmond Jabès: l’incertitude qui vient des ressemblances (Ph.D. French, awarded 2015)

Second-supervisor, Ben Sherlock, No joke: theorising laughter from Charles Baudelaire to Arthur Koestler  (PhD French, awarded 2012)

 Ph.D examiner / Jury de Doctorat: 

Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh  – Joseph Fletcher, “Head Chop: an exploration of community in the works of Bataille, Blanchot and Nancy” (November, 2017).

The European Graduate School - Adam Groves, "The poetic subject: A theory of poetry according to the poet Wallace Stevens and the philosopher Jean Wahl"  (May, 2016).

The University of Aberdeen – Marta Weychan,  Kieslowski’s French Cinema In Ricœurian And Nancean Terms  (March, 2016).

The University of Edinburgh - Mary Raffan, Joyce, Philosophy and the Drama of Authorship (July, 2014).

The University of St. Andrews – Evan Smith, Beckett and Heidegger (November, 2014).

The European Graduate School – Alexia Hannis, Joseph Conrad, Modernity and the Aristotelian Turn (May, 2013).

The University of Aberdeen - Jay Murphy, Artaud’s Metamorphosis: From Hieroglyphs To Bodies Without Organs Jay Murphy (2011).

 M.Litt by research dissertation supervisor (Centre for Modern Thought, The University of Aberdeen):

Elena Bondel, Mir Iskusstva and the Pre-Raphaelites (2012)

Lucy Alford, The Poetics of Attention (2011)

Taught M.Litt dissertation supervisor (The University of Aberdeen)

Maria Kasparek, The Implosion of the Platonic Cave (2014)

Avril Erskine, The Sound of Silence in Samuel Beckett’s Radio Plays (2014)

Laura Griffin, Journey: video games, the beautiful and the sublime (2014)

John McPhun, Fragments of Beckett (2011)

Ciaran McMorran, Echoing Labyrinths: Rhizomatic Reconstructions of Semiotic Space in Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum (2011)

Administrative Service

English Departmental Committee for Curricular Reform: 2013.

Cross-School Curriculum development Committee: 2006; 2014.

Member of supervisory board, Translating Cultures: Literature, Music and the Visual Arts in a World Context, The University of Aberdeen (September 2009 – 2012)

Personal Tutor, (January 2012 – Present)

Undergraduate Advisor of Studies (January 2006 – 2012)

Undergraduate Honours Thesis Advisor, 9/06 – present

Academic Events Organized

Modernist Renaissances (avec Juliana Lopoukhine), Atelier Commun Société d’études Woolfiennes / Société d’études modernistes, Tours, 2020.

Le corps à l'oeuvre (avec Nicole Denoit, Université de Tours), journée d'étude, Tours, 19 Avril,

Ardente Irlande : l’écriture poétique entre contrainte et liberté (journée d'étude, March, 2018, The University of François Rabelais, France)

Tom Stoppard's The Hard Problem / Qu'est-ce que la conscience ? (theatrical reading and debate, November, 2017, The University of Tours, France)

Rhythm and Resonance (research symposium), The University of Aberdeen, September 2014

Laughter (special panel), Society for French Studies, 55th Annual Congress, June 2014

Modernism and Music (research symposium), The Scottish Network of Modernist Studies, Aberdeen, May 2010

The Novel and Its Borders (International Conference, co-organiser), Aberdeen, July 2008

School Research Forum, Aberdeen, 2007

Finnegans Wake Reading Group, Aberdeen, 2006 - 2007 (public reading group open to Aberdeen community)

Finnegans Awake: A day of Irish poetry (Stanford University, May 4-7, 2000).

 Professional Affiliations

SAES – Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur

SEMS – Société des Etudes Modernistes, France

BAMS – British Association of Modernist Studies

ICLA – International Comparative Literature Association

ACLA – American Comparative Literature Association

MLA – Modern Language Association

Performance Studies International

The Scottish Network of Modernist Studies

The Beckett Society

The Yeats Society

Languages:  English, French, Italian, German