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April 2018
English Department Newsletter
Information for inclusion in the May 2018 newsletter should be submitted to [email protected] by 28 April
Staff News
Research and Publications
Anita Auer coedited a special issue of the International Journal of Bilingualism with Jonathan Kasstan and Joe Salmons, titled Heritage-language speakers: Theoretical and empirical challenges on sociolinguistic attitudes and prestige. Details, and Anita’s coauthored introduction, are at http://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/drbhCCePqcZz2AAczyzy/full. Anita has also given a guest talk at the University of Geneva (Linguistics Department) on 6 March 2018 on "The Historical Development of the English Subjunctive: A Corpus Study"
Kevin Curran directed an invited seminar on 30 March for faculty and PhD students called "Object Lessons in Renaissance Personhood" at the Shakespeare Association of America conference in Los Angeles, CA. A description of the seminar can be found here
Martine Hennard Dutheil is a member of the scientific committee for an international and interdisciplinary conference on genre theory and practice: « Fulgurances: forces et fragilités de la forme brève », to be held at the University of Angers on 18-20 April 2018. Details: https://www.fabula.org/actualites/les-temps-de-la-fulgurance-forces-et-fragilites-de-la-forme-breve_82254.php
Section d'anglais
Martine’s article « Comment changer une grenouille en prince? Les métamorphoses traductives de “Der Froschkönig oder der eiserne Heinrich” en anglais, d’Edgar Taylor à Philip Pullman », was also published this month in Ondina/Ondine: Revue de littérature comparée d’enfance et de jeunesse, (printemps 2018, no 1). Details: https://despapiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/ond/issue/view/170
Vincent Laughery’s article « La formation affective à l’école brechtienne » was published in Penser la scène (Michael Groneberg ed.), the current issue (2018/1) of Revue « Etudes de Lettres ». Vincent also features in the cover image (below), prostrate on the stage. Details: https://www.unil.ch/edl/home/menuinst/table-des-sommaires/2015-2019/306-20181.html
April 2018
Information for inclusion in the May 2018 newsletter should be submitted to [email protected] by 28 April
Staff News
Benjamin Pickford cowrote and presented a podcast for C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, entitled “Reflections from Beyond the Horizon: C19 American Studies in Britain and Europe”. The podcast features a short interview with Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet reflecting on researching and teaching American culture in Europe. You can listen to it here: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/c19-america-in-the-19th-century/id1275235064?mt=2. Benjamin also presented a paper at the C19 Biennial Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 22-25, entitled “Climating to Nature: Natural History of Intellect (1893), Emerson’s Open Philosophical Apogee”
Jurg Schwyter’s article “Ten years after the stroke: Me talk slightly less funny” was published in English Today online. Details: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/english-today/article/ten-years-after-the-stroke-me-talk-slightly-less-funny/F6F6B71ADFC52E566C1B73F404A0DBA4
Student News
Summer Schools
The 12th Summer School in Historical Sociolinguistics, organised by Anita Auer and Tino Oudesluijs, takes place at the University of Lausanne from 22-29 July 2018. Leading experts in the field of (historical) sociolinguistics and related disciplines offer classes for graduate students, postgraduate students and young – at heart – researchers. Participants also have the opportunity to present their own research at a special session. Register by 30 April 2018 to take advantage of the early-bird rate. Details: http://wp.unil.ch/summerschools/courses/historical-sociolinguistics/
Forthcoming Events
The next Cake T-Day will be held on 12 April, 17h-18h in ANT 5136. This mémoire discussion group for MA students provides informal, practical and personal support through the mémoire writing process, along with tea and cake! Details: https://www.unil.ch/angl/angl/caketdays-1
The English department will celebrate the 202nd anniversary of the conception of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein with a Frankenstein student conference and study day on Friday 31 May. The deadline for student submissions is April 15. For more information, see the posters around the department or contact Enit Steiner ([email protected])
Martine Hennard Dutheil and Juliette Loesch are coorganisers of « GULL-UNI-VERS Gulliver’s Travels à travers les langues, les genres et les médias ». This is part of a year-long series of events organized at the University of Lausanne in collaboration with colleagues from several language departments (all of them working on translation, adaptation and transmediation), the RTS (https://www.rts.ch/play/radio/versus-lire/audio/les-voyages-extraordinaires-de-gulliver?id=9084023&station=a83f29dee7a5d0d3f9fccdb9c92161b1afb512db), and the Co Controluce and Francesco Biamonte (singer). The event will be held at UNIL on 27 April
April 2018
Information for inclusion in the May 2018 newsletter should be submitted to [email protected] by 28 April
English Department Research Seminar Series
Unless otherwise indicated, all events take place in Anthropole 5196, 13h15 - 15h
17 April: Language and Transnational Domestic Workers. Beatriz Lorente (University of Bern). 10h15, ANT 5021
18 April: UNIL Doctoral Presentations. Camille Marshall and Andrew Reilly
25 April: Kinesic Analysis and the Dynamic of Gestures in Art and Literature. Guillemette Bolens (University of Geneva)
CUSO Doctoral Workshops
13 April: American Literature and the Archive. A one-day workshop featuring a visiting speaker: Randall Fuller (University of Kansas). University of Fribourg. Registration required. Details: https://english.cuso.ch/index.php?id=897&tx_displaycontroller[showUid]=4158
25 April: Literary Logic, Eliot and Wittgenstein. Session led by Sangam MacDuff. University of Geneva
27 April: Form’s Matter: The Social History of Literary Form A one-day workshop featuring two visiting speakers: Angela Leighton (University of Cambridge) and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (UCL). University of Geneva. Registration required. Details: https://english.cuso.ch/index.php?id=897&tx_displaycontroller[showUid]=4161
Open Calls for Papers
SANAS Biennial Conference: The Genres of Genre: A Conference on Form, Format, and Cultural Formations. 2-3 November, UNIL. CFP open until 30 April 2018. Details: http://www.unil.ch/sanas2018
Northern Lights: Late Medieval Devotion to Saints from the North of England. 28-30 March, 2019, UNIL. CFP open until 15 September 2018. Details: https://wp.unil.ch/regionandnation/call-for-papers/
