Title: Associate professor
Research Themes:
- American poetry
- Poetics (forms, genres, media)
- Poetry and media (orality, performance, sound archive…)
- Literary and cultural exchanges between France and the United States
- Modernism
Current Projects:
- Monograph on the French-American conversation in poetry since 1970.
- special issue on Scores for Revue française d’études américaines ; conference proceedings : « Archives sonores de la poésie » and « Emmanuel Hocquard, la poésie mode d’emploi».
- with Vincent Broqua et Olivier Brossard, A Collective History of American Poetry and Poetics. http://www.poetscritics.org
Education and Academic Positions:
- 1990, École Normale Supérieure Fontenay-Saint-Cloud.
- 1993, Agrégation.
- 1999, PhD, Université Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle.
- 1992-93, French assistant, Eton College, UK.
- 1995-98, Teaching Assistant (AMN), l’Université Bordeaux III.
- 2001- , Associate professor, Université Paris-Diderot, UFR Etudes anglophones.
Scientific and Editorial Responsibilities:
- curator, with Vincent Broqua and Olivier Brossard, of the Poets & Critics research programme.
- founding member of the online poetry archive Patrimoine sonore de la poésie
- member of the editorial board of the Palgrave series Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (2017-20)
- deputy member of the French academic council for English studies (Conseil National des Universités, 11è section) since 2015.
Research Supervision:
- American poetry
- Modernist and experimental literature
- Literary translation
Selected Publications:
- “Contemporary poetry and transatlantic poetics at the Royaumont Translation Seminars (1983-2000): an experimental language laboratory", Collaborative Translation From the Renaissance to the Digital Age, eds. Anthony Cordingley, Céline Frigau Manning, London, Bloomsbury, 2016.
- « The Ongoing French Reception of the Objectivists », Transatlantica, 1 | 2016.
- Lyn Hejinian, Ma vie, trad. Abigail Lang, Maïtreyi et Nicolas Pesquès, Dijon, Motion Method Memory / Presses du Réel, 2016.
- « De la poetry reading à la lecture publique », Dire la poésie, ed. Jean-François Puff, Éditions Cécile Defaut, 2015.
- Modernist Legacies. Trends and Faultines in British Poetry Today, eds. Abigail Lang and David Nowell-Smith, Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Series, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. [Review]
