Sarah-Elizabeth Montin - VALE - Paris

Sarah-Elizabeth Montin
Doctoral candidate in English Literature at Paris IV-Sorbonne
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Education
2010-2012: PhD, directed by M. Pascal Aquien, professor at Paris IV-Sorbonne: « A Space
Between ». Poetry Put to the Test (1914-1918): Problems of Identity and Generic Ambiguity
in the Works of the War Poets.
2009-2010: M2 of English literature: Scapes and Landscapes in the poetry of Christina
Rossetti, directed by M. Marc Porée, professor at Paris III- Sorbonne.
2005-2009: student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon.
2008-2009: Agrégation of English.
2006-2007: French lectrice at Girton College, Cambridge.
2005-2006: M1 of English literature: Poetic Energy in Gerard Manley Hopkins, directed by
M. Marc Porée, professor at Paris III- Sorbonne.
Areas of research
Poetry, poetics, genre theory, Lyricism, First World War, Modernism, Memory, Victorian and
Edwardian literature, testimonial literature, committed literature.
Memberships
Member of the « Société des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur » (SAES).
Member of the “International Society for First World War Studies” (ISFWS).
Papers
May 2011:“What is burned in the fire of this?”: Searching for the Lost Subject of
Isaac Rosenberg’s Poetry ».Congrès de la SAES, Paris.
September 2011: “Not flowers for tearful poets“: War Poetry and the Pastoral Failure.
International Conference “Flores, Flowers, Fleurs”, Faculté des Sciences Humaines,
Université Nouvelle de Lisbonne, Portugal.
July 2012:“Monstered space in the Poetry of the First World War“, International Conference
“Monstrous Geographies”, Oxford University, UK.
Extracurricular activities
Student representative, VALE (EA 4085).
Student representative, OVALE.