Katherine Shingler
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Faculty of Arts
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Expertise Summary
My research interests are as follows: visual poetry, 'visuality' in writing, illustration, typography, book design, and interactions between literature and the visual arts more generally. My particular expertise is in the period 1850-1930.
Teaching Summary
I currently offer the following specialized content modules:
R12082 Introduction to Modern French Poetry
This is a second-year module designed to introduce students to the major developments in French poetry in the period 1850-1914, and to the principles of poetic analysis. The module focuses on Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud and Guillaume Apollinaire, but we also consider each of these in their broader artistic context: for instance, we might consider how Baudelaire's poetry relates to painting by Manet, or how Apollinaire's poetry might be described as 'cubisme littéraire'.
R13145 Text, Image and Media in the Twentieth Century
This is an interdisciplinary final-year module which looks at the various ways in which text and image may combine, collaborate and combat one another within works of art. The module covers visual poetry, photo-texts, bande dessinée and experimental film, and also introduces students to theoretical approaches to text and image.
Research Summary
My current research project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, moves from poetry to prose texts, and specifically to the development of the 'art novel' in the period 1900-1930. While representations of… read more
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Current Research
My current research project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, moves from poetry to prose texts, and specifically to the development of the 'art novel' in the period 1900-1930. While representations of painters and painting abound in the 19th century novel, the genre of the art novel undergoes a series of modifications in the first decades of the 20th century, as the new popular art form of the cinema comes to compete with painting as the primary reference point for writers. This project will examine the interaction of still and moving images in fiction by writers such as Guillaume Apollinaire, Blaise Cendrars, Louis Aragon and André Breton.
In April 2011 I organised a conference on the topic of 'Art in French Fiction since 1900'. A selection of papers presented at the conference will be published in a special issue of Nottingham French Studies, to appear in Autumn 2012.
I am a member of the Science Technology Culture Research Group.
Follow this link to view my video on 'avant-garde' for the Words of the World Project.
Past Research
My doctoral thesis, entitled 'Visual Poetry in Theory and Practice: Mallarmé, Cendrars, Apollinaire', was completed in 2007. The thesis considered the relationship between the visual and verbal aspects of a range of poetic works produced in the late 19th and early 20th century, and focused particularly on the possibility of 'simultaneity', or integrated reading and viewing.
I have broad interests in the field of word and image studies, and in addition to my work on visual poetry, I have presented papers on topics such as Maurice Denis's work as an illustrator, and on psychology as a critical tool for literary scholars.