jason r. d`aoust

JASON R. D’AOUST
Comparative Literature
Utrecht University, Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht
tel. +31 (0) 610 65 07 46
email
[email protected]
RESEARCH POSITIONS
2014-
Postdoctoral Fellow
Comparative Literature & Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Utrecht University
The prophetic voice in literature, opera, and media - Advisor: Kiene Brillenburg-Wurth
2012-2013
Research Stay
English Department, Freiburg University, Germany
The voice in narratology – Co-advisor: Monika Fludernik
EDUCATION
2013
Ph.D. in Theory and Criticism, The University of Western Ontario (UWO)
Supervisor: Allan Pero
2008
MA in Comparative Literature, Université de Montréal
Supervisor: Livia Monnet
2006
BA in English Studies and Comparative Literature, Université de Montréal
2002
College Diploma in Music, Conservatoire de Musique du Québec à Montréal
Voice teacher: Marie Daveluy
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, OTHER DISTINCTIONS
2014
Postdoctoral fellowship (81k$)
Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada
2012
Doctoral fellowship (40k$)
The Richard J. Schmeelk Foundation of Canada
2011
Doctoral fellowship (20k$)
Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada
2011
Doctoral scholarship (15k$, declined)
Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2010
Doctoral scholarship (15k$)
Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2010-2012
External funding awards (14k$)
Western School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (UWO)
2010-2012
Graduate Thesis Research Award (1,125$)
Western Faculty of Social Sciences (UWO)
2008-2010
Doctoral scholarship (40k$)
Western Graduate Research Scholarship (UWO)
Since 2012
Lifetime member of The Richard J. Schmeelk Foundation of Canada
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LANGUAGES
Native speaker of French and English. Working knowledge of German and Italian.
PH.D. THESIS ADVISED
2014-
-in committee (in progress):
Inge van de Ven - monumental fiction in a digital age
Advisory role on music and literary monumentalism
EDITORIAL COMMITTEES
2010-2012
Co-editor and editor of the book review section
Post-Scriptum.ORG, a journal of comparative literature
INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH GROUPS AND ASSOCIATIONS
2008-2011
Member of Le Groupe “Penser la théorie”
Inter-university doctoral and post-doctoral research group (Montréal, QC)
Research in literary theory, critical theory, and translation studies
2008-2013
2011-2012
2010-2013
2010-2013
The American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
The Canadian Association of American Studies (CAAS)
The International Association of Word and Image Studies (IAWIS)
The Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
TEACHING
2014-
Guest lecturer in “Literature and the Cinematographic Imagination”
Comparative Literature Utrecht University
Lecture on opera’s adaptation of literature and their cinematographic adaptation
2008-2009
Teaching Assistant
Film Studies, The University of Western Ontario, Canada
Presented films in “Polish and Soviet Cinema,” “Auteur Cinema,” and “World Cinema”
ORGANIZATION OF PANELS AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
2011
Ontological Returns in Digiculture and American Music & The Politics of Iconographic
Recycling in America (with Sara-Danièle Bélanger Michaud) Canadian Association of
American Studies’ Annual Congress, Ottawa
2009
La gravité du frivole, The Artfulness of Play: Bridging Creative and Theoretical
Discourses, The University of Western Ontario
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RELEVANT VOLUNTEER WORK
2005-
Translator
Les Idées heureuses, Baroque music ensemble (Montréal)
Translated German cantatas for concert programs and a CD booklet
2004
Creative Writing Mentor
Jewish People’s and Peretz Schools (Montréal)
Positive role model to promote literacy in elementary schools
PUBLICATIONS
Articles (refereed)
D’Aoust, Jason R. “Orpheus in New Media: Images of The Voice in Digital Opera.”
The International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Special issue: “Digital Opera:
New Means and New Meanings.” 8.1 (2012): 31-48.
D’Aoust, Jason R. “Les malaises du ‘je’: L’angoisse et la scission de l’ego chez Freud.” Lignes de
fuite. Special issue (2010).
D’Aoust, Jason R. “Seduction and the Subject of Desire: Kierkegaard and the Anxious Question
of Desire.” Post-Scriptum.ORG 11 (2009).
D’Aoust, Jason R. “Evelyn Lau’s Persona and Choose Me: The Aesthetics of Pathos, Pathology
and Racial Melancholia.” Transverse 9 (2009): 52-67.
Contributions to Collective Works
D’Aoust, Jason R. “La transfiguration de la voix dans Tristan und Isolde de Richard Wagner.”
Pouvoirs de la transposition: la pensée disciplinaire en question. Montréal: Cahiers du groupe
« Penser la théorie », 2011. 37-42.
Translations
D’Aoust, Jason R., trans. “The Seven Words of Christ on the Cross” (Die sieben Worte Jesu am
Kreuz). A cycle of seven cantatas by J.C. Lichtenberg composed by C. Graupner. Les Idées
heureuses, G. Soly et al. CD booklet. Montréal: Analekta, 2012.
D’Aoust, Jason R., trans. “Writing the Languages of the World” (“Écrire les langues du monde”
by Radhia Dziri). The Films and Videos of Jamelie Hassan. Miriam Jordan and Julian Jason
Haladyn, eds. London, ON: Blue Medium Press, 2010. 165-172.
Unpublished Manuscripts
D’Aoust, Jason R., trans. “The Voice.” Vasse, Denis. “La voix.” L’ombilic et la voix. Paris: Seuil,
1974. 11,062 words.
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Conference Papers
“The Orpheus Figure: Musical Voices and Literary History.” Music Literature, Historiography and
Aesthetics, Institute of Musical Research, University of London, 17-18 July 2014.
“Vocal Positions: Dialectical Exercises in Sound and Language.” Mapping Between Body and Sound
session, American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Congress, University of
Toronto, 4-7 April 2013.
“Orpheus Kristall, A Digital Opera: Contemplation in the Maze of Media.” Lost in contemplatio:
Contemplation in Contemporary Culture session. Northeast Modern Language Association
(NeMLA) 44th Conference, Tufts University, Boston MA, 21-24 March 2013.
“Media and Inscriptions of the Voice.” (Discussion Session) Perceptual Tensions, Sensory Resonance:
An International Conference on Contemporary Opera and New Music Theatre, University of
Toronto, 8-9 June 2012.
“Pious Nietzsche: Writing the Voice of Conversion.” The Writing of Spiritual Crisis and Conversion
session, American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Congress, Brown
University, Providence RI, 29 March to 1 April 2012.
“The Orphic Voice in Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde.” Music and Transcendence Conference, Music and
Theology faculties, Cambridge UK, 29 November 2011.
“Music From Hell: Orpheus in America.” Ontological Returns in Digiculture & American Music
session, Canadian Association of American Studies (CAAS) Conference, Carleton
University, Ottawa, 5 November 2011.
“The Political Aesthetics of Opera and the Visual Epistemology of Digital Media.” Théoros à la
fête de la pensée session, Association Internationale pour l’Étude des Rapports entre Texte
et Image (IAWIS/AIERTI) Conference, Montreal, 22 August 2011.
“Orpheus Psychopomp: Aesthetics & Metaphysics.” Literature and the Experience of Ecstasy session,
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) 42nd Conference, New Brunswick
NJ, 8 April 2011.
“Les dess(e)ins d’Orphée: le mythe en musique.” Le mythe, un intervalle du monde Conference,
Concordia University, Montreal, 26 November 2010.
“The Orphic Wagner: Tristan and the Other’s Voice.” The Theory Sessions, The University of
Western Ontario, London, 9 April 2010.
“La transposition et la représentation. La voix transfigurée d’Isolde chez Wagner.” Transposition:
théories à l’œuvre Conference, Concordia University, Montreal, 13 November 2009.
“Les malaises du ‘je’. L’angoisse et la division de l’ego chez Freud.” Malaises : la fissure dans la
littérature et les autres arts Conference, Université de Montréal, Montreal, 7 May 2009.
“Seduction and the Subject of Desire: Kierkegaard and the Anxious Question of Desire.” The
Art of Seduction: Global Language and Local Figures session, American Comparative Literature
Association (ACLA) Congress, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, 26 March 2009.
“Orfeo, the Castrato.” Self and Body session, American Comparative Literature Association
Conference (ACLA) Congress, California State University, Long Beach CA, 24-27
April 2008
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