Jane Malcolm
- Professeure agrégée
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Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département de littératures et de langues du monde
Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, room C-8120
Profile
Biography
Jane Malcolm joined the English Department at the Université de Montréal in April 2012. Her research interests include poetry and poetics, British, American, and European modernism, extra-literary modernism, the poetics of gender, the problem of difficulty, and the theory and practice of translation. Her work has appeared in Arizona Quarterly, VLAK, AModern, Lemon Hound, and Jacket2. A co-edited edition of Laura Riding's 1928 volume of criticism, Contemporaries and Snobs, was published by the University of Alabama's Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series in 2014. She is currently working on a book about gender ambivalence and modernist innovation in the work of H.D., Mina Loy, Laura Riding, and Gertrude Stein.
Affiliations and responsabilities
Teaching and supervision
Teaching
Courses taught (current session only)
Programs
- 113510 – Baccalauréat en études anglaises
- 113520 – Majeure en études anglaises
- 113540 – Mineure en études anglaises
- 113710 – Baccalauréat en littératures de langues anglaise et française
- 213510 – Maîtrise en études anglaises
- 313510 – Doctorat en études anglaises
- 313710 – Doctorat en études allemandes
Student supervision
Theses and dissertation supervision (Papyrus Institutional Repository)
Noisy and haptic interventions in the feminist codex : daring refusals by H. D., Lisa Robertson, Rachel Zolf, and Erín Moure
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
The poetics of translation : a thinking structure
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Performing femininity within masculine circles : a study of negation in the works of Mina Loy
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
“I Do This, You Do That:” mass consumption and subversive protopolitics in Frank O’Hara’s poetry
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
Waxing Ornamental : Reading a Poetics of Excess in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
Engendered Conversations: Gender Subversion Through Fictional Dialogue in Lawrence, Hemingway and Forster
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Projects
Research projects
The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Laura Riding 1927-1930, a Scholarly Edition
Girly Modernism and the Poetics of Excess: Reading Djuna Barnes, Frances Simpson Stevens, and Mina Loy
L'AMBIVALENCE FEMINISTE ET LA PRATIQUE MODERNE : UNE APPROCHE DE LA POESIE DE MINA LOY H.D ET GERTRUDE STEIN
PETITES SUBVENTIONS 2012-2013 - ALONE TOGETHER : REVISITING H.D., MINA LOY, AND GERTRUDE STEIN
Outreach
Publications and presentations
Publications
Contemporaries and Snobs (1928) by Laura Riding, Jane Malcolm and Laura Heffernan (co-editors). University of Alabama Press, Modern & Contemporary Poetics Series, Eds.Charles Bernstein and Hank Lazer, 2014.
"Transfer and Estrangement: Gail Scott in Conversation with Jane Malcolm." Jacket2, February 2020. https://jacket2.org/interviews/transfer-and-estrangement
‘All Alone with English: Teaching Stein in a Multilingual Context.” Approaches to Teaching Gertrude Stein, Eds. Logan Esdale and Deborah Mix. Modern Language Association (MLA) Publications, New York: 184-190, 2018.
“You Can’t Evict an Idea: The Poetics of Occupy Wall Street.” With Charles Bernstein. In Pitch of Poetry by Charles Bernstein. University of Chicago Press: 13-28, 2016.
“‘the poem among us, between us, there’: Muriel Rukeyser’s Meta-Poetics and the Communal Soundscape. Amodern4:The Poetry Series, Eds. Jason Camlot and Darren Wershler, 2015. https://amodern.net/article/poem-among-us/
“Dysfunctional Families: On Alice Notley’s Doctor Williams’s Heiresses.” VLAK: Contemporary Poetics and the Arts, 2015.
"'We peer through various portals': A Review of Gail Scott's The Obituary. Jacket2, April 2013. https://jacket2.org/reviews/we-peer-through-various-portals
"'That breeding silence she': Laura Riding's Gendered Ethics and the Limits of the Word 'Woman.'" Arizona Quarterly, Volume 65, Number 3: 61-85, 2009.
Disciplines
- Literature
- Literary Studies
- Translatology
Areas of expertise
- Anglophone modernism
- Poetry
- Poetry and poetics
- Experimental writing
- Gender studies
- Modern Times
- Early Modern Times
- 20th century
- 21th century