JASON R. D`A

JASON R. D’AOUST
Comparative Literature
Utrecht University
Trans 10, Room 2.22b
3512 JK Utrecht, The Netherlands
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RESEARCH POSITIONS
2014-2015
2012-2013
Guest researcher
Comparative Literature & Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Utrecht University
Research Stay
English Department, Freiburg University, Germany
EDUCATION
2014
2009
2006
2002
Ph.D. in Theory and Criticism, The University of Western Ontario (UWO)
M.A. in Comparative Literature, Université de Montréal
B.A. in English Studies and Comparative Literature, Université de Montréal
College Diploma in Music, Conservatoire de Musique du Québec à Montréal
LANGUAGES
Native speaker of English and French. Working knowledge of German and Italian.
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, OTHER DISTINCTIONS
2014
2013
2012
2012
2011
2011
2011
2010
2010
2009
Postdoctoral fellowship (81k$), Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada
Doctoral fellowship (20k$), The Richard J. Schmeelk Foundation of Canada
Doctoral fellowship (20k$), The Richard J. Schmeelk Foundation of Canada
Graduate Thesis Research Award (1,125$), Faculty of Social Sciences, UWO
Doctoral fellowship (20k$), Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada
Funding award (7k$), School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, UWO
Doctoral scholarship (15k$, declined), Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Doctoral scholarship (15k$), Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Funding award (7k$), School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, UWO
Doctoral scholarship (80k$), Graduate Research Scholarship, UWO
2012
Lifetime member of the Richard J. Schmeelk Foundation of Canada
PH.D. THESIS ADVISED
2014-2015
Inge van de Ven, “Monumental Fiction in the Digital Age”
Comparative Literature, Utrecht University
Advised the candidate on comparisons between contemporary fiction and
monumental music of the Romantic period.
EDITORIAL COMMITTEES
2010-2012
Co-editor and editor of the book review section
Post-Scriptum.ORG, a journal of comparative literature
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INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH GROUPS AND ASSOCIATIONS
2008-2011
Le Groupe “Penser la théorie” (Montréal)
20082011-2012
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)
Research in literary theory, critical theory, and translation studies
TEACHING
2014
Guest lecturer, “Literature and the Cinematographic Imagination”
Comparative Literature Utrecht University
Opera’s adaptation of literature and their cinematographic adaptation
2008-2009
Teaching Assistant, Film Studies, The University of Western Ontario
Presented films in “Polish and Soviet Cinema,” “Auteur Cinema,” and “World Cinema”
ORGANIZATION OF PANELS AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
2011
2009
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
La gravité du frivole
The Artfulness of Play: Bridging Creative and Theoretical Discourses,
The University of Western Ontario
RELEVANT VOLUNTEER WORK
Since 2005-
Translator, Les Idées heureuses, Baroque music ensemble (Montréal)
2004
Creative Writing Mentor, Jewish People’s and Peretz Schools (Montréal)
Translated German cantatas for concert programs and a CD booklet
Promoted literacy in elementary schools
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-reviewed Articles
D’Aoust, Jason R. “The Lied d’Ossian in Massenet’s Werther: Intertextuality and Vocality in the Long
Nineteenth Century,” 10,769 words, in review.
D’Aoust, Jason R. “Les voix queers dans Mommy de Xavier Dolan,” 6448 words, in review.
D’Aoust, Jason R. “Digital Scenography and the Mimetic Aporia of Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle,” The
Journal of Aesthetics and Culture, Accepted for publication 24 April 2015, (6844 words).
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.
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Peer-reviewed Articles (continues)
D’Aoust, Jason R. “Les malaises du ‘je’: L’angoisse et la scission de l’ego chez Freud.” Lignes de
fuite. Special issue (2010). http://www.lignes-de-fuite.net/article.php3?id_article=136
D’Aoust, Jason R. “Seduction and the Subject of Desire: Kierkegaard and the Anxious Question of
Desire.” Post-Scriptum.ORG 11 (2009). http://www.post-scriptum.org/seduction-and-the-subjectof-the
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.
D’Aoust, Jason R., trans. “The Voice.” Vasse, Denis. “La voix.” L’ombilic et la voix. Paris: Seuil, 1974.
11,062 words, unpublished manuscript.
Conference Papers
“Swearing, Singing, and Lip Sync: The Queer Vocality of Xavier Dolan’s Mommy.” Queer Film and
Television Area Panels, Film and History Annual Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 58 November 2015.
“Intertextual Voices and Music in Timothy Findley’s Late Novels.” Intertextuality in Music since 1900 –
Conference, CESEM/FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa & Institut für Musikwissenschaft,
Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Lisbon, 6-7 March 2015.
“The Orpheus Figure: Musical Voices and Literary History.” Music Literature, Historiography and Aesthetics,
Institute of Musical Research, University of London, London, 17-18 July 2014.
“Vocal Positions: Dialectical Exercises in Sound and Language.” Mapping Between Body and Sound,
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, 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.
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Conference Papers (continues)
“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, Montréal, 22 August 2011.
“Orpheus Psychopomp: Aesthetics & Metaphysics.” Literature and the Experience of Ecstasy session,
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) 42nd Conference, Rutgers Univeristy, 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, Montréal, 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, Montréal, 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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