The Intermedial City

Fabien Arribert-Narce

Fabien Arribert-Narce est Senior Lecturer in French à l’Université d’Edimbourg, où ses recherches actuelles portent sur les écrivains français et le Japon depuis 1945. Il est l’auteur de Photobiographies : pour une écriture de notation de la vie (Roland Barthes, Denis Roche, Annie Ernaux) (Honoré Champion, 2014), et a par ailleurs co-dirigé plusieurs volumes collectifs dont Michaël Ferrier, un écrivain du corail (Honoré Champion, 2021).

Karine Bigand

Marc Calvini-Lefebvre

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Sara El Majhad

Sara El Majhad is a teacher and researcher at Aix-Marseille University where she previously earned her PhD in anglophone studies. She teaches US cultural history, Media studies and Translation. She is a graduate of Paris 8 University and a former journalist in Morocco. Her research interests include the history and political economy of Hollywood, as well as issues of visibility and representation in American popular media. She co-organizes the seminar series “The Imperial Romance: Empire in Popular Adventure Fiction,” and is currently contributing a chapter to The Routledge Companion to Transnational Western.

Matthis Hervieux

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Martin Knust

Martin Knust (Dr. phil., M.A.) studied musicology, theology and philosophy at the University of Greifswald, the Humboldt University Berlin and the Technical University Dresden. Academic appointments and lectureships in Germany and Sweden, among others as postdoctoral fellow at Stockholm University. He is associate professor in musicology and member of the research center for Intermedial and multimodal studies at Linnæus University (LNUC IMS). 2022 – 2025 project leader of a three-year Kamprad foundation funded project about digital music production. His research interests focus on opera and music theatre after 1800 (historical performance practice of speech, song and gestures), north European music after 1800 (reception and cultural transfer processes between the North and continental Europe), Swedish pop and music in audiovisual political journalism (its production and aesthetics).

Emmanuelle Lacore-Martin

Senior Lecturer in French - Head of the Department of European Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh. Spécialiste de littérature française du seizième siècle, et des sources antiques de la pensée humaniste de l'histoire et du temps, dans l'œuvre de Rabelais en particulier ; c'est par Rabelais que j'en suis aussi venue à m'intéresser aux relations entre littérature et anatomie dans les textes de cette période, et par extension à la représentation humaniste des relations entre le corps et l'esprit, et à la pensée humaniste de l'intellect et du rôle de l'imagination. Mon intérêt pour Frankétienne est notamment lié aux échos entre son œuvre et celle de Rabelais du point de vue du génie de la langue, mais aussi dans l'aspect polymathique et renaissant de son art.

Paul Leworthy

As of next month, Paul Leworthy will be Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of Modern Languages at Newcastle University. He completed his PhD in Comparative Literature at The University of Edinburgh in 2021 with a doctoral thesis examining the role of objects and spaces in memory work in novels by Grass, Perec, Modiano and Walser. A monograph based on the thesis, The Shape of Memory: Containers, Surfaces and Forms of Remembering in Post-War European Literature, will appear later this year with Peter Lang. He is a founding co-Editor-in-Chief of Memory Studies Review and host of the Connecting Memories Podcast.

Seyf-el Islam Nader

Seyf-el Islam Nader is a second-year doctoral student at Aix-Marseille Université, under the supervision of Professor Sébastien Lefait. He is affiliated with LERMA, and more specifically with the “Visibilisation” research team. He specializes in American literature and wrote his first master’s thesis at Aix-Marseille Université on Toni Morrison’s Beloved, and his second on Mike Flanagan’s TV Adaptations of American Gothic literature. For his PhD, he continues to work on adaptation, focusing on the impact of American science fiction adaptations on ecological perceptions.

Déborah Prudhon

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Tom Routledge

Tom Routledge is a second-year PhD student at Aix-Marseille University, where he has been working since 2022. He previously taught English at Paul Valéry University Montpellier. He holds an undergraduate degree in French & Francophone Studies from the University of Birmingham and a Master's degree from University College London. His doctoral thesis focuses on the subversion of gender in British rap, with a specific emphasis on the perspectives of female and non-binary artists. The research draws parallels with the American rap scene and examines how these artists challenge gender norms and become transformative figures within the genre. The thesis analyzes not only the lyrics but also the broader performance, including the staging of gender identity, aesthetics, language, visual images, and phonetic elements. Through his analysis of artists like Kae Tempest and Little Simz, he aims to demonstrate the evolution of female and non-binary voices in this traditionally male-dominated genre. Additionally, his research seeks to clarify the distinction between rap and hip-hop, highlighting the central role of rap in the evolution of hip-hop culture.

Marion Schmid

Marion Schmid is Professor of French Literature and Film at the University of Edinburgh. She co-directs the MSc and PhD Intermediality programmes at the University of Edinburgh together with Fabien Arribert-Narce, and co-edits the Peter Lang series European Connections: Studies in Comparative Literature, Intermediality and Aesthetics with Hugues Azérad. Her monographs include Intermedial Dialogues: The French New Wave and the Other Arts (2019),Chantal Akerman (2010), Proust dans la décadence (2008), Proust at the Movies (2005, with Martine Beugnet), and Processes of Literary Creation: Flaubert and Proust (1998).

Benoît Tane

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Sarah Tribout-Joseph

Sarah Tribout is senior lecturer in French and francophone studies at the university of Edinburgh. There are 2 strands to her current research one on representations of the city and the suburbs and one on care. She is currently working on a book on care.