Scientific committee
Vanessa Guignery is Professor of English and Post-colonial Literature at the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon and a member of the research team LIRE. She is the author of several books and essays on the work of Julian Barnes, including The Fiction of Julian Barnes (Macmillan, 2006), and Conversations with Julian Barnes (Mississippi Press, 2009), co-edited with Ryan Roberts. She has published articles on various British and Indian contemporary authors, as well as a monograph on B.S. Johnson, This is not Fiction. The True Novels of B.S. Johnson (Sorbonne UP, 2009). She edited several collections of essays on contemporary British and post-colonial literature including (Re)mapping London (Publibook, 2008), Voices and Silence (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009) and a special issue of the Journal of American, British and Canadian Studies on Julian Barnes (Sibiu, 2009).
vanessaguignery@wanadoo.fr
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Catherine Pesso-Miquel is currently a Professor of English Literature at the University of Lyon 2 and a member of the research team LIRE. Her research focuses on the contemporary novel and on travel literature, exploring questions of narratology, intertextuality, postcolonialism, and problematics linked to identity and feminism. She has published books and articles on American novelists (Willa Cather and Paul Auster), British novelists (Graham Swift in particular) and Indo-Anglian authors. She published a monography on Paul Auster in 1996 (Toiles trouées et désert lunaires dans Moon Palace de Paul Auster, Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle), Willa Cather in 2001 (Alexander’s Bridge, de Willa Cather, Éditions du Temps), Salman Rushdie in 2007 (Salman Rushdie, l’écriture transportée, Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux) and on Anita Desai in 2008 ((In Custody de Anita Desai, Atlande).
catherine.pesso.miquel@univ-lyon2.fr
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François Specq is Professor of American Literature and Culture at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (Université de Lyon, France) and a researcher affiliated with LIRE-SEMA (CNRS UMR 5611). He is the author of Transcendence : Seers and Seekers in the Age of Thoreau and has published translations and critical studies of works by Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville and Frederick Douglass.
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Organising committee
Vanessa Guignery vanessaguignery@wanadoo.fr
Catherine Pesso-Miquel catherine.pesso.miquel@univ-lyon2.fr
François Specq francois.specq@ens-lyon.fr
Isabelle Baudino is Senior Lecturer at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon and a researcher affiliated with LIRE-SEMA. Her main line of studies is the artistic and cultural history of eighteenth-century Britain. Her research focuses on painting and painters exploring questions of art sociology, cultural transfers and exchanges as well as art institutions. She has published articles on history painting, gardens and landscape as well as on the Royal Academy of Arts in London. She has directed together with Jacques Carré and Frédéric Ogée a volume on the foundation of the Royal Academy of Arts in London (Armand Colin, 2004) and with Frédéric Ogée the first modern edition of Jonathan Richardson’s various Essays (ÉNSB-A, 2008). She is currently preparing the latest issue of the review Lumières on the representation of races in the 18th century. ibaudino@orange.fr
Laure Gardelle is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (Université de Lyon, France). Her main research interests are in pronominal gender in modern English and more generally pronouns, reference and anaphora. She has published various articles on those topics, mainly within utterer-centred and cognitive frameworks.
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Lacy Rumsey is Senior Lecturer in British and American Literature at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. He has published many articles on twentieth-century poetry, with a particular focus on the analysis of rhythm. In 2009, he organised the conference “Rhythm in Twentieth-Century British Poetry” at ENS Lyon ; the acts are to appear later this year. He is also ENS Lyon’s Associate Director of International Strategy.
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