I am a doctoral researcher at Université Bourgogne Europe and the University of Glasgow (cotutelle), investigating how translations of Decadent literature circulated through French and British periodicals between 1880 and 1914. My project explores the role translation played in relation to the concept of Decadence across the Channel during the fin de siècle.
The work involves creating a public database of translated texts from a number of British and French periodicals, alongside a prosopography and interactive map of translators. My project is interdisciplinary, drawing on and aiming to contribute towards recent developments in Decadence and periodical studies as well as the digital humanities.
I developed an interest in the fin-de-siècle at Durham University (BA English Literature and History, 2022) and during my master’s at the University of Leicester (MA Victorian Studies, 2024), where my dissertation was awarded the Professor Philip Collins Prize. After graduating, I spent time teaching at a boarding school in Bangkok before embarking on this doctoral project.
I am supervised by Professor Bénédicte Coste (UBE) and Dr Matthew Creasy (UoG) and will undertake secondments at the Bibliothèque nationale de France and Cadenza Academic Translations in Exeter. My research is generously funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions through the DECADOCS network.
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