ENAG
European Neo-Avant-Garde
Participants
Nathaniel DAVIS (Université Grenoble Alpes)
Research
Nathaniel Davis is preparing a postdoctoral research project on description and subjectivity in American, French, and Austrian neo-avant-garde prose narratives. His doctoral dissertation addresses the theme of linguistic skepticism in the German and Austrian neo-avant-garde. He has translated works by Peter Handke, W. G. Sebald, and Gunter Falk, and was Assistant Editor for Dalkey Archive Press from 2015–2016. He teaches English at Université Grenoble Alpes.
Hans DEMEYER (UCL London)
Lecturer Dutch & Comparative Literature, UCL
Research
The general commitment of my research is the integration of literary and ideological analysis and this with a focus on post-war literature in Dutch and other languages. Current research focuses on tendencies in contemporary fiction; in particular it aims to understand them in relation to cultural and socio-economic changes. Theoretical inquires revolve around the integration of affect, genre and ideology.
Bartosz LUTOSTAŃSKI (UWM in Olsztyn, Poland)
Research
Dr Bartosz Lutostański is assistant professor at the University of Warmia and Mazury, Poland; an ENN and ISSN member; founder of ORGIN, Olsztyn’s Research Group in Narrative at UWM. He co-organised five literary conferences in Poland; the list of his publications includes the studies on contemporary literature and narratology. His monograph on Samuel Beckett and Witold Gombrowicz is out now.
In his new project, “A Theory and Typology of Experimental Narrative Fiction”, he seeks to theorize the experimental novel. The analytical toolkit derives from the theory of the novel, narratology, the theory of realism and the Polish sociology of literature. In his model he differentiates between six types of novelistic experiment: generic, formal, thematic, narrative, syntactic, and typographic. He is currently working on the British avant-garde (BS Johnson, A Quin, B Brophy) and multi-modal artistic works (D Dorst/ JJ Abrams, M Pessl, G Rawle).
Maria Elena MINUTO
Research
Maria Elena Minuto (Rome, 1981), Ph.D. in Textual Theory and Analysis, Art historian and Co-curator at the Italian Cultural Institute in Brussels. Minuto is specialized in contemporary art and literature. Her research focuses on concrete and visual poetry, esp. on artists’ books and publications, and on the links between Italy and Belgium in the 1960s and 1970s. In this, she examines the pivotal role played by De Tafelronde (1953-1982), Labris (1962-1973), Lotta Poetica (1971-1975) and Factotumbook (1977-1979).
Jesper OLSSON (Linköping University)
Research
Jesper Olsson is associate professor at Linköping University, where he leads the research group Literature, Media History, and Information Cultures, the project Representations and Reconfigurations of the Digital in Swedish Literature and Art 1950–2010, and is the director of the research program The Seed Box. A Mistra-Formas Environmental Collaboratory. He also works as a critic for the daily Svenska Dagbladet and is one of the founders of the magazine OEI. His research interests focus on media ecologies, media aesthetics, and the avant-garde.
Julio PREMAT (Paris 8)
Research
Julio Premat is Professor of Latin American literature at the University of Paris 8, France, and Director of the LIRICO research center on literatures of the Río de la Plata countries and its journal, Cuadernos LIRICO. His research has centered on the work of Juan José Saer, conceptions of authorship, and temporality in relation to avant-garde in literary history.
Julio PRIETO (Potsdam)
Research
Julio Prieto is Professor of Latin American literature and culture (Ph.D: New York University). His main research areas are Latin American literature and film, avant-garde fiction and poetry, and modern art and culture. At present he holds the position of Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Potsdam.
Emma WEST (Birmingham)
British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Birmingham, UK.
Research
My research focuses on the relationship between high modernism and popular culture. My doctoral thesis aimed to challenge the high/low culture divide; my postdoctoral project, Revolutionary Red Tape: How state bureaucracy shaped British modernism (1918-1951), will examine how public servants and official committees helped to commission, disseminate and popularise vanguard art, design, architecture and literature in Britain.
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