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Jeremy Lane

Associate Professor in French, Faculty of Arts

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Teaching Summary

My teaching tends to focus on the culture, society and politics of post-war France. hence I teach on the first-year Contemporary France modules, deliver a module on French New Wave cinema at second… read more

Research Summary

My current research pursues two apparently quite distinct but, in fact, closely related strands. The first is an analysis of the reception of jazz in the French-speaking world between1918 and 1945,… read more

Recent Publications

  • JEREMY F. LANE, 2012. From 'Amor fati' to 'disgust': Affect, habitus and class identity in Didier Eribon's Retour à Reims French Cultural Studies. (In Press.)
  • JEREMY F. LANE, 2012. Between Repression and Anamnesis: Pierre Bourdieu and the Vicissitudes of Literary Form Paragraph. (In Press.)
  • 2012. Leaving the South: Frantz Fanon, modern jazz, and the rejection of négritude. In: American Creoles: the Francophone Caribbean & the American South Liverpool University Press. (In Press.)
  • 2011. ‘Disaffection in the Post-fordist Workplace: figurations of ‘immaterial labour’ in recent French theory and literature’ Modern and Contemporary France: special no. ‘Figurations of Work in Postfordist France’, eds. Jeremy F. Lane & John Marks. 19(4), 495-509

My teaching tends to focus on the culture, society and politics of post-war France. hence I teach on the first-year Contemporary France modules, deliver a module on French New Wave cinema at second year, and a year-long module on Ethnicity, Citizenship, and National Identity in Post-war France in final year.

I also teach French Language, currently on the core final-year language module.

I have taught sessions on Marxist Literary Theory on the French MA, as well as contributing seminars on the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Jean Baudrillard on the MA in Critical Theory.

Current Research

My current research pursues two apparently quite distinct but, in fact, closely related strands. The first is an analysis of the reception of jazz in the French-speaking world between1918 and 1945, paying particular attention to the series of works of serious jazz criticism published in French over that period. This is the subject of monograph I am currently writing, provisionally entitled -French Jazz Aesthetics in the Era of Machine-Age Imperialism-.

My second current research strand looks into the political, cultural, and social effects of contemporary transformations in the French workplace. In this context, I have become interested in the work of André Gorz and of the group of thinkers collected around the French journal -Multitudes-. In September 2008, I co-organised an international conference on this topic, with my colleague John Marks, entitled -Work in Postfordist France-.

Past Research

My PhD thesis focused on the work of the French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu, attempting to contextualise his output in terms both of the particular philosophical and sociological traditions on which he drew and of the developments in French and Algerian society which his work analysed. My thesis was subsequently published as a monograph by Pluto Press in 2000. A second monograph, published by Routledge in 2006, looked into the practical implications and theoretical foundations of Bourdieu's political interventions, with particular reference to his outspoken criticisms of neo-liberal globalisation. By 2006, I had had quite enough of Bourdieu and was ready to move onto pastures new.

  • JEREMY F. LANE, 2012. From 'Amor fati' to 'disgust': Affect, habitus and class identity in Didier Eribon's Retour à Reims French Cultural Studies. (In Press.)
  • JEREMY F. LANE, 2012. Between Repression and Anamnesis: Pierre Bourdieu and the Vicissitudes of Literary Form Paragraph. (In Press.)
  • 2012. Leaving the South: Frantz Fanon, modern jazz, and the rejection of négritude. In: American Creoles: the Francophone Caribbean & the American South Liverpool University Press. (In Press.)
  • 2011. ‘Disaffection in the Post-fordist Workplace: figurations of ‘immaterial labour’ in recent French theory and literature’ Modern and Contemporary France: special no. ‘Figurations of Work in Postfordist France’, eds. Jeremy F. Lane & John Marks. 19(4), 495-509
  • LANE, J.F., 2007. Ferhat Abbas, Vichy's National Revolution and the Memory of the Royaume arabe L’Esprit Créateur [Special issue: <i>France's Colonies during World War Two</i>]. 47(1), 19-31
  • LANE, J.F., 2007. Universal Ideals in a Multicultural Age: Pierre Bourdieu's Recent Theory and Politics. In: ERMARTH, E, ed., Re-writing democracy: : cultural politics in postmodernity Aldershot: Ashagte Publishing. 100-115
  • LANE, J.F., 2007. Deleuze In and Out of this World Paragraph. 30(2), 109-116
  • LANE, J.F., 2006. Bourdieu's politics: problems and possibilities London: Routledge.
  • LANE, J.F., 2005. When Does Art Become Art? Assessing Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Artistic Fields. In: INGLIS, D. and HUGHSON, J., eds., Sociology of Art: ways of seeing Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 30-42
  • LANE, J.F., 2005. Jazz as Habitus: Discourses of Class and Ethnicity in Hugues Panassie's Le Jazz Hot (1934) Nottingham French Studies. VOL 44(NUMB 3), 40-53
  • LANE, J.F., 2004. 'Un étrange retournement'? Pierre Bourdieu and the French Republican Tradition. In: ROBBINS, D, ed., Pierre Bourdieu volume 2. London: Sage. 53-71
  • LANE, J.F., 2004. Pierre Bourdieu's Forgotten Aesthetic: The Politics and Poetics of Practice Paragraph. VOL 27(PART 3), 82-99
  • LANE, J.F., 2003. Neo-liberalism as "imposition" and "invasion": problems in Bourdieu's politics French Cultural Studies. vol.14(part 3, no. 42), 323-335
  • LANE, J.F., 2002. "La Femme adultère" d'Albert Camus Vives Lettres. 13, 187-203
  • LANE, J.F., 2001. The politics and economics of Pierre Bourdieu Modern and Contemporary France. VOL 9(PART 1), 92-94
  • LANE, J.F., 2000. Pierre Bourdieu : a critical introduction London : Pluto Press.
  • LANE, J.F., 2000. Review of Habermas,J, <em>L'Int?gration r?publicaine: essais de th?orie politique</em> (1998) Modern and Contemporary France. 8(1), 131-132
  • LANE, J.F., 2000. Pierre Bourdieu and Hans Haacke: art, autonomy and the market in the era of late capitalism Strathclyde Modern Language Studies. 5, 110-131
  • LANE, J.F., 2000. The French Contribution to Contemporary Cultural Analysis. In: KIDD, W. and REYNOLDS, S., eds., Contemporary French Cultural Studies London : Edward Arnold. 287-299
  • LANE, J.F., 1999. La Bourdieumania fait des ravages dans les medias Modern and Contemporary France. VOL 7(NUMBER 1), 105-108
  • LANE, J.F., 1999. Review of Pinto,L, <em>Pierre Bourdieu et la théorie du monde social</em> (1999) Modern and Contemporary France. 7(4), 545
  • LANE, J.F., 1999. Review of Bourdieu,P, <em>Les Règles de l'art: genèse et structure du champ littéraire</em> (1999, 2e édition revue et corrigée) Modern and Contemporary France. 7(4), 543
  • LANE, J.F., 1999. Pierre Bourdieu and the Chronotopes of "Post-Theory". In: MACQUILLAN, M., MACDONALD, G., PURVES, R. and THOMPSON,S., eds., Post-Theory: new directions in Criticism Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press. 89-102
  • LANE, J.F., 1999. 'Un etrange retournement'? Pierre Bourdieu and the French republican tradition Modern and Contemporary France. VOL 7(NUMBER 4), 457-470
  • LANE, J.F., 1997. Sociology as Dialogics: M M Bakhtin, Pierre Bourdieu and the Critique of Formalist Aesthetics. In: Face to Face Bakhtin in Russia and the West Sheffield Academic Press Ltd, Sheffield, UK. 120-147
  • LANE, J., 1997. `Domestiquer l'exotique... exotiser le domestique': the symbiosis of ethnology and sociology in the work of Pierre Bourdieu Modern and Contemporary France. VOL 5(NUMBER 4), 445-456

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