ALEXIS TADIE CURRICULUM VITÆ Name

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TADIÉ
Alexis
French
30,rueBlanche,75009Paris
0173710722
UFR d’Anglais, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 1, rue Victor
Cousin,75005Paris,France
ProfessorofEnglishLiterature;UniversityofParis-Sorbonne
FellowoftheInstitutUniversitairedeFrance
English,Spanish,Arabic(spokenandwritten)
http://alexis-tadie.fr/
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Education:
1997:
HabilitationàDirigerdesRecherches.UniversityofParisX-Nanterre.“Langage,
Fiction,ReprésentationdeJonathanSwiftàSalmanRushdie”.
1987:
Doctorate; University of Paris X-Nanterre. Approche pragmatique de Tristram
ShandydeLaurenceSterne:lesproblèmesdel’énonciationetdelaréférence.
1985: --Agrégation(English).
--DEA(MPhil)inlinguistics;EcoledesHautesEtudesenSciencesSociales.
1983: Maîtrise(MA;English);UniversityofParis-SorbonneNouvelle.
1982-87:
StudentattheEcoleNormaleSupérieure(rued'Ulm).
1982: Licence(BA;English);UniversityofParis-Sorbonne.
“Classespréparatoires”attheLycéeHenriIV,Paris.
SecondaryeducationattheFrenchSchoolinCairoandtheFrenchLycéeinLondon.
Academicpositionsheld:
2008-
ProfessorofEnglishLiterature;UniversityofParis-Sorbonne.
2011-6
FellowoftheInstitutUniversitairedeFrance.
2003-8:
Director,CNRSResearchUnit,FRE2668/USR3129,MaisonFrançaise,Oxford.
2000-3:
ProfessorofBritishLiterature;UniversityofParis7-Diderot.
1989-97:
Maîtredeconférences(SeniorLecturer);DepartmentofEnglish,Universityof
ParisX-Nanterre.
1989-92:
Associate Professor; Faculty of English and Comparative Literature; American
UniversityofParis.
1987-9:
Assistant Professor; Centre of French Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
NewDelhi,India.
1985-7:
Frenchlecteur;NewCollegeandPembroke,UniversityofOxford.
1983-4:
Frenchlecteur,UniversityofOxford.
OtherAcademicPositions:
2015-6:
VisitingFellow,StEdmundHall,Oxford.
2015:
VisitingFellow,ThomasMooreInstitute,NationalUniversityofIreland,Galway.
(onemonth).
2012-3:
VisitingFellow,AllSoulsCollege,Oxford.
2004-8:
VisitingProfessor,UniversityofJadavpur,Calcutta,India.
2003-8:
Fellowbyspecialelection,StCatherine’sCollege,Oxford.
1996: VisitingFellow,StCatherine’sCollege,Oxford.
OtherProfessionalExperience:
2003-2008:
Director,MaisonFrançaised’Oxford,Oxford.
1996-2000: Cultural Attaché, French Embassy, Syria; co-director of the French Cultural
Centre.
OtherAcademicservice:
Since2015: Editor,Etudesanglaises.
Since2014: MemberofthesteeringcommitteeofVALE(EA4085).
Depuis2013: MemberoftheEditorialBoard,OxfordStudiesintheEnlightement.
Since2011:
Director, Ecole Doctorale “Civilisations, cultures, littératures et sociétés”,
University of Paris-Sorbonne (Director of Doctoral Studies for modern
languages).
Since2010:
Director,Board,VolaireFoundation,UniversityofOxford.
Since2009: Chair, Finance and Strategy Committee, Voltaire Foundation, University of
Oxford.
Since2008: Member, Finance and Strategy Committee, Voltaire Foundation, University of
Oxford.
Since2003: Member,FundCommittee,VoltaireFoundation,UniversityofOxford.
2015:
Member,RecruitingCommittee,UniversityofParis-Sorbonne.
2012:
Member,RecruitingCommittee,UniversityofParis-Sorbonne.
2011:
Member,RecruitingCommittee,UniversityofParis-Sorbonne.
2009-12:
Chair, Scientific Committee, French Research Institutes in the Middle East
(Egypt,Sudan,Yemen).
2007-11:
Expert, AERES (Agence d’Evaluation de la Recherche et de l’Enseignement
Supérieur).
2003-8:
Chair, Steering Committee for the History of Science, Maison FrançaiseUniversityofOxford.(exofficio)
2003-8:
Member,SteeringCommittee,Europaeum,UniversityofOxford.(exofficio)
2003-8:
Member, Steering Committee, European Studies Centre, St Antony’s College,
UniversityofOxford.(exofficio)
2003-8:
Member, Steering Committee, European Studies at Oxford network. (ex
officio)
1992-5:
ExaminerfortheagrégationinEnglish.SeniorLiteratureexaminer,1995.
1991-6:
Member of the recruiting committee, University of Paris X-Nanterre. Member
oftherecruitingcommittees,UniversityofParisIV-SorbonneandUniversityof
Orléans.
1991-4:
Member,ScientificCouncil,UniversitédeParisX-Nanterre.
ResearchProgrammes:
2013-5:
Co-investigator, with Daniel O’Quinn, University of Guelph, Ontario, of the
‘SportingCulture’programme,FranceCanadaResearchFund.
2011-15:
Principal investigator, “La dispute: cas, querelles, controverses et création
littéraire à l’époque moderne, France-Angleterre”. Programme funded by the
AgenceNationaledelaRecherche.
2004-8:
Principal investigator, Franco-British research programme (French Ministry of
ResearchACIscheme,thenANR):“FrontiersofModernity”,MaisonFrançaise
d’Oxford.
Other:
2000-2:
Literarycritic,“LaSuitedanslesIdées”,France-Culture.
Since2000-11: Regularcontributortothemonthlyjournal,Esprit.
PUBLICATIONS
Monographs
1. 2014:FrancisBacon,lecontinentdusavoir.Paris,ClassiquesGarnier.
2. 2003:Sterne’sWhimsicalTheatresofLanguage,AldershotandBurlington,Ashgate.
3. 2000:Locke.Paris,EditionsdesBellesLettres.
4. 1996: Salman Rushdie, with Marc Porée, Paris, Editions du Seuil. Under the name of
AlexisMassery.
Editions
5. 2012: Laurence Sterne, Vie et Opinions de Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, preface and
notes,translationrevised,Paris,Gallimard,coll.Folioclassique.
6. 2004:JosephConrad,Victoire,prefaceandnotes,Paris,Gallimard,coll.Folioclassique.
7. 1997: Jonathan Swift, Les Voyages de Gulliver, preface and notes, Paris, Flammarion,
coll.GF.
8. 1994: Rudyard Kipling, Le Second Livre de la jungle, preface and notes, Paris,
Flammarion,coll.GF.
9. 1994:RudyardKipling,LeLivredelajungle,prefaceandnotes,Paris,Flammarion,coll.
GF.
10. 1993:RudyardKipling,Kim,prefaceandnotes,Paris,Gallimard,coll.Folioclassique.
Anthology
11. 2003:Locke,Paris,Hachette.
Editedvolumes
12. (undercontract):AtPlay.TheCulturesofSportintheLongEighteenth-Century.Edited
byDanielO’QuinnandAlexisTadié.Toronto:UniversityofTorontoPress.
13. 2017 (à paraître): The Theory of Quarrels. Special issue of Paragraph. Edited by Alexis
Tadié.
14. 2016 (forthcoming): Ancients and Moderns in Early Modern Europe. Edited by Paddy
BullardandAlexisTadié.Oxford,VoltaireFoundation,OxfordUniversityStudiesinthe
Enlightenment.
15. 2016 (à paraître): Dispute et Création en Europe à l’époque de la première modernité.
EditedbyJeanne-MarieHostiouandAlexisTadié.Paris,ClassiquesGarnier.
16. 2014: Sport, Literature, and Society: Cultural Historical Perspectives. Edited by Alexis
Tadié, J.A. Mangan et Supriya Chaudhuri. London, Routledge. Volume reprint of the
specialissueoftheInternationalJournalfortheHistoryofSport.
17. 2012: Sport, Literature, and Society, special issue of the International Journal for the
HistoryofSport,editedbyAlexisTadié,J.A.ManganandSupriyaChaudhuri.
18. 2012: Esthétiques de la ville britannique, XVIIIe-XIXe siècles. Mélanges offerts à Jacques
Carré.EditedbyPierreDuboisandAlexisTadié,Paris,PressesUniversitairesdeParisSorbonne.
19. 2011: Fiction and the Frontiers of Knowledge in Europe 1500-1800. Richard Scholar and
AlexisTadié.AldershotandBurlington,Ashgate.
20. 2010: La Figure du philosophe à l’époque moderne: France-Angleterre. Presses
UniversitairesdeParis-Ouest.
21. 2009: Writing Contemporary India. Special issue of Etudes Anglaises: Guest editor.
Introduction,bibliography,interviewofAnitaDesai(withV.Guignery).
22. 2005: Syrie Liban Palestine, Le Grand Tour. Photographs: Ange Leccia, Jean-Luc
Moulène, Patrick Tosani, Akram Zaatari. Texts: François Cheval, Elias Sanbar, Alexis
Tadié.Paris,Isthmeéditions.
Articlesininternationallypeer-reviewedjournals:
23. 2017 (à paraître): «The Language of Quarrels» in Paragraph, special issue on the
TheoryofQuarrels.
24. 2015:“TheSeductionsofModernTennis:FromSocialPracticetoLiteraryDiscourse”,
SportinHistory.35,2,p.271-295.DOI:10.1080/17460263.2015.1022210
25. 2015:“Runningforfreedom:thepoliticsoflong-distancerunninginmodernfiction”,
inInternationalJournalfortheHistoryofSport,32,2,p.286-98.
26. 2013: “The Networks of Quarrels: The Strange Case of Peter Anthony Motteux”,
EtudesAnglaises,66-2,147-60.
27. 2013:“Peut-ontraduirelesquerelles?DelaQuerelledesanciensetdesmodernesàla
Battle of the Books”, Littératures classiques, special issue «Le temps des querelles»,
editedbyJeanne-MarieHostiouandAlainViala,volume81,2013,p.211-26.
28. 2013: “Fiction et vérité à l’époque moderne”, Philosophiques, special issue edited by
PascalEngel,vol.40,n°1,p.71-85.
29. 2012:“LalittératureclassiqueselonSalmanRushdie”,RevuedeLittératureComparée,
n°4,2012,p.429-40.
30. 2012:“Prologue”,inTadié,ManganandChaudhurieds, Sport,LiteratureandSociety,
volume29,n°12(2012),p.1653-6.
31. 2012: “Heroes, Fans and the Nation: Exploring football in contemporary fiction” in
Tadié, Mangan and Chaudhuri eds, Sport, Literature and Society, International Journal
fortheHistoryofSport,volume29,n°12(2012),p.1774-90.
32. 2012:“Labiographielittéraireàl’anglaise”,Critique,LXVIII,781-782,p.553-64.
33. 2010: “The Fictions of (English) Cricket: from Nation to Diaspora” in International
JournalfortheHistoryofSport,vol.27n°4,p.690-711.
34. 2010:“EdwardSaidetJosephConrad:lacritiquedel’illusioncoloniale”,Tumultes,
2010/2(n°35),p.67-80.
35. 2009:“Introduction”toWritingContemporaryIndia,EtudesAnglaises,62/3,p.258-65.
36. 2006: “PerceptionsofLanguageinLordJim“inTheConradian,Vol.31,n°1,p.16-36.
37. 2005: “Anageofsurfaces”:lelangagedelacomédiedansTheImportanceofBeing
Earnestd’OscarWilde”inEtudesAnglaises,58/3,p.323-35
38. 2002: “Les Hésitations de la fiction dans Roxana de Daniel Defoe”, in Etudes
Anglaises.
39. 2001: “Le Hennissement de Gulliver: Oralité et Ecriture dans Gulliver's Travels” in
EtudesAnglaises.
40. 1998: “La Fiction et ses Usages: approche pragmatique du concept de fiction” in
Poétique.
41. 1997: “Sex,Lies,andNoVideotapes:lesfictionsdusecretdansMollFlanders”inXVIIXVIII.
42. 1997: “LesDiversesVoixdeRudyardKipling”inEurope(numérospécial“Kipling”).
43. 1996: “Gulliveraupaysdeshybrides:Science,langage,fictiondansGulliver’sTravels”
inEtudesAnglaises.
44. 1995: “ConversationetReprésentationenAngleterre”inXVII-XVIII.
45. 1994: “TheLanguageofGestureinLaurenceSterne’sASentimentalJourney˝inXVIIXVIII.
46. 1992: “Fictional Language and Fictional Discourse” in Research in English and
AmericanLiterature.
47. 1985: “TristramShandyetlesproblèmesdel'énonciation”inFabula.
Chaptersineditedvolumes
48. 2016 (forthcoming): “Ancients, Moderns, and the Language of Criticism” in Ancients
andModernsinEarlyModernEurope.EditedbyPaddyBullardandAlexisTadié.Oxford,
VoltaireFoundation,OxfordUniversityStudiesintheEnlightenment.
49. 2016 (forthcoming): “The Physical Powers of Man:” The Emergence of Physical
Training in the Eighteenth Century” in At Play. The Cultures of Sport in the Long
Eighteenth-Century.EditedbyDanielO’QuinnandAlexisTadié.Toronto:Universityof
TorontoPress.
50. 2015:«TheUsesandTransformationsofEarlyModernTennis»inSharonHarrow(ed.),
BritishSportingLiteratureandCulture,Burlington,Ashgate,p.83-103.
51. 2013: «De Heywood à Keats: Y a-t-il une Psyché anglaise?» dans Magali BélimeDroguet,VéroniqueGély,LorraineMailho-DaboussietPhilippeVendrix(éd.),Psychéà
laRenaissance,Bruxelles,Brepols,p.269-79.
52. 2013:“‘OpeningtheHeartandLungs’:ThePhysiologyofLaughterinSterne’sWorks”,
in Anne Bandry & Peter de Voogd (eds.), Hilarion’s Ass. Laurence Sterne and Humour,
Newcastle,CambridgeScholars,p.25-36.
53. 2012: “Le Sylva Sylvarum de Bacon : un recueil d’anecdotes” in F. Aït-Touati et A.
Duprat (eds.), Narratives and knowledge: The Early Modern Scientific Anecdote (XVIXVIIthcenturies)Bern,PeterLang,pp.111-30.
54. 2012:“MichaelBaxandalletlatraditionanglaisedelacritiqued’art”inP.Duboisand
A.Tadié(eds.),Esthétiquesdelavillebritannique,XVIIIe-XIXesiècles.Mélangesoffertsà
JacquesCarré.Paris,PressesUniversitairesdeParis-Sorbonne,pp.63-82.
55. 2011:“TraduireSwiftenimages”inN.Ferrand(ed.),Leromanetl’illustrationauXVIIIe
siècleenEurope,SVEC,Oxford,VoltaireFoundation.
56. 2010: Introduction to R. Scholar and A. Tadié (eds.), Fiction and the Frontiers of
KnowledgeinEurope,pp.1-15.
57. 2010:IntroductiontoA.Tadié(ed.),LaFigureduphilosophe,pp.9-24.
58. 2010:“Lafictionest-elleunecatégoriedelaconnaissance?”inC.GrallandM.Macé
(eds),Devantlafiction,danslemonde,Rennes,PressesUniversitairesdeRennes,coll.
LaLicorne,pp.33-47.
59. 2009:“FrancisBaconauXVIIIesiècle”inI.Moreau(ed.),LesLumièresenmouvement,
Lyon,Pressesdel’ENS,pp.101-25.
60. 2008: “AKiplingReader:ModesofAppropriationofReadinginColonialIndia”inA.
Gupta(ed.),BookHistoryinIndia,Delhi,PermanentBlack,pp.78-93,
61. 2007:“Leromanindiendelangueanglaiseentrenationetdiaspora”,inMarie-Claude
Smouts(ed.),Lasituationpostcoloniale,Paris,PressesdeSciences-Po,2007,pp.79-97.
62. 2007: “Delatraceauparadigmefictionnel”,inDenisThouard(ed.), L'interprétation
des indices. Enquête sur le paradigme indiciaire, Lille, Presses Universitaires du
Septentrion,pp.227-39.
63. 2007: “Under the Banyan Tree : R.K. Narayan, Space and the Story-Teller” in Marta
DvorakandW.H.New(eds),TropesAndTerritory:ShortFiction,PostcolonialReadings,
CanadianWritinginContext,Montreal&Kingston,McGill-Queen'sUniversityPress,pp.
231-43.
64. 2002: “LaDestinéelittérairedeSalmanRushdie”,inM.Murat(ed.),LeRomanesque,
Paris,PressesdelaSorbonneNouvelle.
65. 2001: “From the Ear to the Eye: Perceptions of Language in the Works of Laurence
Sterne” in M. Syrotinski et I. Maclachlan (eds), Sensual Reading, Bucknell University
Press.
Articlesinotherjournals
66. 2014: «Des machines et des hommes: le roman du XVIIIe siècle et la question de
l’imitation»,Sillagescritiques,n014,http://sillagescritiques.revues.org/2808
67. 2012:“IsaTheoryofTravel-WritingPossible?”inM.Descargues-Grant(ed.),Récitde
voyage et Encyclopédie au XVIIIe siècle, Valenciennes, Presses Universitaires de
Valenciennes, p.173-85.
68. 2010: “Le roman anglais du XVIIIe siècle est-il un roman encyclopédique?”, in J.-C.
Abramovici (ed.), Roman et Encyclopédie au XVIIIe siècle, Valenciennes, Presses
UniversitairesdeValenciennes.
69. 2003: “L’Inde et l’histoire du livre et de la lecture: quelques remarques” in Les
CahiersCharlesV(universitédeParis7),numérospécialconsacréàl’histoiredulivre.
70. 1996: “‘Nography’ and ‘Ichnography’:Tristram Shandy and Visual Perception” in
Interfaces.
71. 1996: “Tristram Shandy and Visual Perception” in Transactions of the Ninth
International Congress of the Enlightenment, The Voltaire Foundation. (summary of
aboveitem)
72. 1995: “SalmanRushdieetLesVersetssataniques:lescartessataniques”inTropismes
(withM.MarcPorée).
73. 1995: “Midnight’s Children de Salman Rushdie : un nouvel ordre du discours” in
Théorielittératureenseignement.
74. 1995: “L’Œil et l’Oreille: la théorie de la pasigraphie de Joseph de Maimieux” in
Interfaces.
75. 1993: “LesJeuxlinguistiques”inTropismes(UniversityofParisX).
76. 1993: “LeStatutépistémologiquedesattitudesfictionnelles”inInterfaces.
77. 1990: “How to Do Things with a Hobbyhorse” in Théorie littérature enseignement
(UniversityofParisVIII).
78. 1987: “LeLangagedugeste”inBulletindelaSociétédeStylistiqueanglaise.
Conferenceproceedings
79. 2014: “Candide et Rasselas: Deux philosophies du style”, in N. Cronk and N. Ferrand
(eds),ActesduColloqueCandide250ansaprès,Bruxelles,Peters.
80. 2011:“IsCricketafictionalgame?”,inR.ChristianandJ.Misrahi(eds.),Indiaandthe
Indian Diasporic Imagination, Les Cahiers du CERPANAC 9 (Montpellier: Presses
universitairesdelaMéditerranée).
81. 2007:“FrancisBaconetlegenredel'essai”,inFionaMcIntosh-VarjabédianandV.Gély
(éds.);LaPostéritédelaRenaissance,Lille,PressesUniversitairesdeLille3,pp.167-76.
82. 2004: “V.S.Naipaul:theWriterasAnthropologist”,inLesCahiersduCERPANAC.
83. 1995: “Salman Rushdie et Les Versets sataniques : le problème des catégories” in
Ateliers(UniversityofLille).
84. 1991: “Théories de la citation et théorie du roman” in Proceedings of the Orleans
Conferenceon“Repetition”.
PublicEngagement
85. 2013:«LesVoyagesdeGulliverdeJonathanSwift:Explorationenterresatirique»,Le
NouvelObservateur,numérohorssérie«LaBibliothèqueidéale»,pp.81-3.
86. 2012:“WritingaboutCricket:AConversationwithMukulKesavan”,MovingWorlds,12,
1(2012),67-70.
87. 2009:InterviewofAnitaDesai(withV.Guignery),EtudesAnglaises,62/3,pp.370-8.
88. 2004: “RohintonMistry:lalogiqueduréalisme”,inEsprit.
89. 2003: Salomé et la langue française in Théâtre National de l’Opéra de Paris
(programmedelareprésentationdeSalomé).UnderthenameofAlexisMassery.
90. 2003: “LaCultureetl’EtatenSyrie”inEsprit.
91. 2002: “AmitavGhosh:lesnuancesdel’histoire”,inEsprit.
92. 2001: “UnGarçonConvenable:leromand’unsous-continent”inEsprit.
93. 2001: “George Crabbe et Benjamin Britten: Une même idée de l’Angleterre” in
ThéâtreNationaldel’OpéradeParis(programmedelareprésentationdePeterGrimes).
UnderthenameofAlexisMassery.
94. 2000: “Quelleactionculturelleextérieure?”inEsprit.
95. 1999: “Verdi hanté par Shakespeare” in Théâtre National de l’Opéra de Paris
(programmedelareprésentationdeMacbeth).UnderthenameofAlexisMassery.
96. 1999: “AlaRecherchedeFalstaff”inThéâtreNationaldel’OpéradeParis(programme
delareprésentationdeFalstaff).UnderthenameofAlexisMassery.
97. 1999: “TheGroundBeneathHerFeet:unesatireunpeutroprock’nroll”inEsprit.
98. 1998: “OscarWildeàl’opéra”inThéâtreNationaldel’OpéradeParis(programmede
la représentation de Le Nain d’Alexander von Zemlinsky). Under the name of Alexis
Massery.
99. 1996: “I Capuleti e I Montechi à la lumière de Shakespeare” in Théâtre National de
l’OpéradeParis(programmedelareprésentation).
NumerousarticlesinEspritaboutEnglishpoliticallife.
Latestessay:http://www.esprit.presse.fr/news/frontpage/news.php?code=342
Conferenceconvenor(since2008)
1. 2016: Co-convenorwithAnne-LiseReyandRichardScholar,“Ladispute:unterritoire
épistémologiquecommun?”,OrielCollege,Oxford(sequeltothenextitem).
2. 2015: Co-convenor with Anne-Lise Rey, “La dispute: un territoire épistémologique
commun?”,one-weekseminar,FondationLesTreilles.
3. 2015: Convenor ‘Cultures of Sport’ panel at the American Society for Eighteenth
CenturyStudies,LosAngeles.
4. 2014: seminar series convenor «Histoire et poétique des querelles», université de
Paris-Sorbonne.
5. 2014: Co-convenor of three panels at the Canadian Society for Eighteenth Century
Studies,Montreal.
6. 2014: Co-organiser with Jeanne-Marie Hostiou and Sophie Vasset, «La dispute sur la
scènedethéâtre»,UniversitiesofSorbonne,Paris3,andParis7.
7. 2014:«LesQuerellesenEuropeàl’époquemoderne»,workshop,universitédeParisSorbonne.
8. 2014: «Sporting Life», co-organiser with Daniel O’Quinn (University of Ontario),
UniversitédeParis-Sorbonne.
9. 2013: seminar series convenor «Histoire et poétique des querelles», université de
Paris-Sorbonne.
10. 2013: «La Création en questions: discours et disputes», international conference,
universitédeParis-Sorbonne.
11. 2012-3:convenoroftheVisitingFellowsseminar,AllSoulsCollege,Oxford.
12. 2012: “‘The Paths of Pleasure’: Games, Sports and Entertainment in the Eighteenth
Century”, session, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, San Antonio,
Etats-Unis.
13. 2012: “Sport and the Nation”, convened with S. Chaudhuri, Jadvpur University,
Kolkata,Inde.
14. 2011: “Histoire et poétique des querelles”, seminar series convened with Alain Viala,
ANR-AGONprogram,UniversityofParis-Sorbonne.
15. 2011: “Sport, Literature, Society: Historical Perspectives”, convened with S.
Chaudhuri,J.Mangan,J.McLeod,UniversityofParis-Sorbonne.
16. 2011:Openingconference,convenedwithAlainViala,ANR-AGONprogram,Worcester
College,UniversityofOxford.
17. 2011:“EducatingtheBody:theCulturesofSportintheEighteenth-Century”,session,
AmericanSocietyforEighteenth-CenturyStudies,Vancouver,Canada.
18. 2010:“SportinConquest”,convenedwithJohnMcLeod,UniversitédeLeeds.
19. 2010 : “The Worlds of Tobias Smollett”, convened with Sophie Vasset, Université de
Paris-Sorbonne.
20. 2008:“LafigureduphilosopheII”,VoltaireFoundation,Universitéd’Oxford.
21. 2008:“What’sinacase?”,session,AmericanSocietyforEighteenth-CenturyStudies,
Portland,Oregon.
22. 2008:“TheDilemmasofDigitization”,convenedwithPaolod’IorioandAnneSimonin,
ConferenceorganisedwiththesupportoftheBodleianLibrary,Europaeum,withinthe
frameworkoftheEuropeanprogramCOST32.
23. 2008:“QuandlaFranceétaitgalante”,MaisonFrançaised’Oxford.
Paperspresentedatconferencesandseminars(since2006)
1. 2016: “The Ruins of Syria”, Distinguished Visitor Lecturer, Department of English,
UniversityofWarwick.
2. 2016: “Was Sterne a (freat) letter-writer?” Enlightenment Correspondences seminar,
UniversityofOxford.
3. 2015:“RememberingSyria:TheRussellsandtheNaturalHistoryofAleppo(1756-1794)”,
CanadianSocietyforEighteenthCenturyStudies,Vancouver.
4. 2015: “What Is a Quarrel?” Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway,
Ireland.
5. 2015:“HowCanWeTalkaboutSyria?”MooreInstitute,NationalUniversityofIreland,
Galway,Ireland.
6. 2015: “Gulliver’s Travels et la satire: du genre au livre”, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
SciencesSociales,Paris,France.
7. 2014: ‘Pourquoi faudrait-il s’entraîner?’, Canadian Society for Eighteenth Century
Studies,Montreal.
8. 2014: ‘Laughing in the eighteenth century’, guest lecture, Jadavpur University,
Calcutta.
9. 2014: “A quoi servent les cartes? L’exemple de Laurence Sterne”, Ecole Normale
Supérieureseminarseries.
10. 2014: “Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World between utopia, thought experiment
and polemics” “Transforming the Republic of Letters” conference, University of
Oxford.
11. 2014:«TheBirthofModernTennis»,«SportingLife»,UniversitédeParis-Sorbonne.
12. 2013: «The ‘Curious in Europe’ and ‘Modern Syria’: The Progress of Knowledge in
Alexander and Patrick Russell’s Natural History of Aleppo», «Eastern Resonances»
Conference,UniversitédeMontpellier.
13. 2013:«KnowledgeandTheNaturalHistoryofAleppo»,Queen’sUniversity,Belfast.
14. 2013: «La biographie comme genre romantique», Centre Alexandre Koyré, EHESS,
Paris.
15. 2012:“Runningforfreedom:thepoliticsoflong-distancerunninginmodernfiction”,
“SportandtheNation”conference,Kolkata,Inde.
16. 2012: ““Opening the Heart and Lungs”: The Physiology of Laughter in Sterne’s
Works”,“SterneandHumour”Conference,UniversityofStrasburg,convenedbyAnne
Bandry&PeterdeVoogd.
17. 2012: ““A downright Man of Traffick”: Peter Anthony Motteux and the Querelle in
England”, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference, San Antonio,
Etats-Unis.
18. 2012:“PeterMotteuxandtheBattleoftheBooks”The‘BattleoftheBooks’andthe
EuropeanRepublicofLetters,UniversityofCanterbury.
19. 2012:“LaThéoriedelalittératureselonSalmanRushdie”,EcoleNormaleSupérieure.
20. 2011:“Literatureasaudience:thepublicoffootball”,UniversityofParis-Sorbonne.
21. 2011:“Fromquerelletoquarrell”,ANR-AGONprogram,UniversityofOxford.
22. 2011:“L’écritureducaschezKipling”,UniversityofParis3-Sorbonnenouvelle.
23. 2010 : “Roderick Random and the Colonies”, “The Worlds of Tobias Smollett”,
UniversityofParis-Sorbonne.
24. 2010 : “Sadiq jalal el ‘Azem, lecteur de Rushdie et de Saïd”, colloque “L’Orientalisme
desOrientaux”,UniversityofAmiens.
25. 2010:“Translation,Transposition,FictionalisationofQuarrels:fromtheQuerelletothe
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Etats-Unis.
2009 : “Reconfigurations of Knowledge in the Eighteenth-Century Novel”,
“RestorationtoReform”Seminar,Universitéd’Oxford.
2009 : “Des Hommes et des Machines : problèmes de l’imitation dans le roman du
XVIIIesiècle”,Séminaire“TexteetCritiqueduTexte”,UniversityofParis-Sorbonne.
2009 : “Is cricket a fictional game ?”, “India And The Indian Diasporic Imagination”
Conference,Montpellier.
2009:“DeHeywoodàKeats:ya-t-ilunePsychéanglaise?”,“PsychéàlaRenaissance”
conference, Centre d’études supérieures de la Renaissance (Tours) and Centre des
Monumentsnationaux(Paris),Tours.
2009 : “Truth and Fiction in the Early Modern Period”. With Richard Scholar. Ecole
NormaleSupérieure,rued’Ulm.
2009 : “Candide et Rasselass : Deux philosophies du style”, conference to mark the
250thanniversaryofthepublicationofCandide,VoltaireFoundation,Oxford.
2009 : “Le Sylva Sylvarum de Bacon : un recueil d’anecdotes”, “Narratives and
knowledge: The Early Modern Scientific Anecdote ( XVI-XVIIth centuries). New College
Symposium,Oxford.
2009:“LediscoursautourdesautomatesetlaquestiondelafictionauXVIIIesiècle”,
“Ecrituresscientifiques”seminar,Lille.
2008 : “‘A compleat body of arts and sciences’ : literature and science in the
Eighteenth-Century”,WarwickEighteenth-CenturyCentre,UniversityofWarwick.
2008 : “Bacon au XVIIIe siècle”, “Les Lumières en mouvement” Conference, Ecole
NormaleSupérieureLSH,Lyon.
2008:“SalmanRushdie,artisteuniversel”,QuaiBranlyMuseum,Paris.
2008:“TraduireSwiftenimages”,“IllustrationandTranslation”Conference,Maison
Françaised’Oxford.
2008 : Discussant, Atelier “Intellectual History”, American Society for EighteenthCenturyStudies,Portland,Oregon.
2008:Speaker,“Veuillezfranchirlaligne”,AutourdeSalmanRushdie,Cîtédulivre,Aix
enProvence.
2008 : “Is a theory of travel-writing possible ?”, “On the Road: Writing Travel and
Travellers”Conference,UniversityofJadavpur,Calcutta,India.
2007:“LaFictionest-elleunecatégoriedelaconnaissance?”,“Danslafiction,devant
lemonde”Conference,Universitéd’Amiens.
2007 : “Le roman indien entre nation et diaspora”, “Que faire des études
postcoloniales?”conference,Sciences-Po.
2006:“LeromananglaisduXVIIIesiècleest-ilunromanencyclopédique?”,“Romanet
Encyclopédie”Conference,UniversitédeValenciennes.
2006 : “Science vs Literature : From New Atlantis to the Academy of Lagado”,
AmericanSocietyforEighteenth-CenturyStudies,Montréal.
2006:“LesavatarsduMaure,deShakespeareàSalmanRushdie”,UniversityofParisNanterre.
2006:“Frommanuscripttoprintedtext:theworkingsoforalityinConrad’sLordJim”,
“TextualCriticism”Conference,UniversityofJadavpur.