Dr Delphine Grass

Lecturer in French

Current Teaching

FREN101: French Culture and Society

DELC215: Language and Identity in France, Germany and Spain

DELC342: Imagining Modern Europe: Post-Revolutionary Utopias and Ideologies in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

DELC347: Modernity of Forms and Forms of Modernity in French Literature 1850-2000

DELC416: Academic and Practical Methods in Translation

DELC 420: MA Translation Project

Research Overview

My research focuses primarily on modern and contemporary French literature, theory and criticism. In among that, I am particularly interested in creative critical practices, or forms of art writing, around translation, as well as in translation as a creative writing and art practice in itself. Another aspect of my research into contemporary writing practices focuses on the relationship between literature, art and politcs. I have written and published works on translation, writing technologies, posthumanism and the archive. I have also written several articles on Michel Houellebecq and am the translator, with Tim Mathews, of his poetry collection The Art of Struggle. My new research project, funded by the AHRC/MEITS, is entitled 'Translation as Creative Critical Practice'. It researches the ways in which translation can stimulate creative approaches to the reading and interepretation of texts. I am also a praticing poet and have published works in both French and English.

Research Grants

AHRC/MEITS 'Translation as Creative Critical Practice' (2019 for 24 months)

The Society for French Studies Conference Fund: Awarded (with Dr. Charlotte Baker) in support of the conference "Multilingual French Identities" taking place in January 2014 at Lancaster University.

My PhD research was funded by the UCL Graduate School Scholarship (Fees and Maintenance Scholarship awarded on merit and excellence accross UCL faculties)

PhD Supervision Interests

Modern and contemporary literature, literary theory, creative criticism, literary and creative translation, Modernism, multilingual literature, literature and political philosophy.

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PhD Students
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Selected Publications Show all 25 publications

Ghosts in the Text: Writing Technologies, Authorial Strategy and the Politics of Reactionary Autoimmunity in Houellebecq's Works
Grass, D.B. 1/04/2019 In: The Australian Journal of French Studies. 56, 1
Journal article

The Democratic Languages of Exile: Reading Eugene Jolas and Yvan Goll's American Poetry with Jacques Derrida and Hannah Arendt
Grass, D.B. 1/07/2017 In: Nottingham French Studies. 56, 2, p. 227-244. 18 p.
Journal article

World literature at the Borderland: The Frontier Poetics of Claude Vigée and André Weckmann’s Alsatian Poetry
Grass, D. 09/2015 In: Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies. 11, 3, p. 1-19. 19 p.
Journal article

Domesticating Hierarchies, Eugenic Hygiene and Exclusion Zones: The Dogs and Clones of Houellebecq's La Possibilité d'une île
Grass, D. 07/2012 In: L'Esprit Créateur. 52, 2, p. 127-140. 14 p.
Journal article

The disappearing subject: language, transparency and modern architecture in the works of Michel Houellebecq
Grass, D. 06/2011 In: Contemporary French and Francophone Studies. 15, 3, p. 339-347. 9 p.
Journal article

All Publications Show only selected publications

Black Nettles Blaze in the Wind (poetry translation of Claude Vigée)
Grass, D. 5/09/2019 In: Poems from the Edge of Extinction. Chambers ISBN: 1473692997, 9781473692992.
Chapter

Art, Literature and the Multilingual Spaces of post-Brexit Democracy
Grass, D.B. 2018
Other contribution

The Multilingual Spaces of French and Francophone Writing
Grass, D.B., Baker, C.A. 07/2017 In: Nottingham French Studies. 56, 2
Special issue

Introduction
Grass, D., Baker, C. 1/06/2017 In: Nottingham French Studies. 56, 2, p. 115-118. 4 p.
Journal article

Feuilles Doubles
Grass, D. 2017 Amorces collection ed. Paris : A Verse. ISBN: 9791093694030.
Book

Untitled: Hommage à Yves Bonnefoy
Grass, D.B. 09/2016
Other contribution

Translation of Houellebecq's poetry for "Rester Vivant"/"To Stay Alive" exhibition at Palais de Tokyo
Grass, D.B. 1/06/2016
Other contribution

Multilingual Francophone African Identities
Grass, D.B., Baker, C.A. 03/2015 In: International Journal of Francophone Studies. 18, 1
Special issue

Houellebecq’s Soumission gives us a vision of Islam tailored for Western fantasies
Grass, D. 2015
Other contribution

Introduction: Multilingual Francophone African identities
Baker, C., Grass, D. 2015 In: International Journal of Francophone Studies. 18, 1, p. 11-18. 8 p.
Journal article

La Traversée
Grass, D., Wiame, S. 07/2013 Les Céphéides.
Anthology

Oyster, Oyster! (Contre-histoire de l'huître)
Grass, D., Wiame, S. 07/2013 Les Céphéides.
Anthology

"Black Nettles Blaze in the Wind"
Grass, D. 2011
Other contribution

Michel Houellebecq et les préromantiques allemands: une lecture poétique du roman Houellebecqien
Grass, D. 2011 In: Michel Houellebecq à la Une . Amsterdam : Rodopi ISBN: 978-90-420-3340-5.
Chapter

Review of Hédi Kaddour’s Treason, trans. by Marilyn Hacker
Grass, D. 2011 In: Modern Poetry in Translation. 3, 16
Book/Film/Article review

Review of Jean Folain, 130 poems
Grass, D. 2011 In: Modern Poetry in Translation. 16, 3
Book/Film/Article review

Review of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Orchards, trans. by Peter Oram and Alex Barr
Grass, D. 2011 In: Modern Poetry in Translation. 3, 16
Book/Film/Article review

Preface to Houellebecq's The Art of Struggle
Grass, D., Mathews, T., Houellebecq, M. 2010
Foreword/postscript

Sens du combat
Houellebecq, M., Grass, D., Mathews, T. 2010
Other contribution

Houellebecq and the novel as site of epistemic rebellion
Grass, D. 2006 In: Opticon1826. 1, 10 p.
Journal article

ISF: Translation as Creative Critical Practice
30/01/2019 → 30/06/2020
Research

Translation as Creative Critical Practice
30/01/2019 → 30/06/2020
Research

The Author and the world: New interdisciplinary approaches to authorship
06/01/2014 → 05/01/2016
Research

Multilingual Creativities
24/02/2013 → …
Other

‘“This Author is not for Turning”: The Return of the Author beyond the Creative/Critical Divide’
Invited talk

'Found in Translation: Literary Dispatches from the Peripheries of Europe'
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

'Translate, Create, Debate! Literary Dispatches from the Peripheries of Europe'
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

"Displacement is the New Translation" by Kenneth Goldsmith: Towards a New Critical Poetics?
Invited talk

Hans/Jean Arp's Translations without Objects
Oral presentation

Language Shifts
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

What we do in Archives: Stories of Facing the Unreadable
Invited talk

Orpheus in the Archives
Invited talk

life.theory.death
Participation in conference

Lancaster Litfest
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Multilinguisme et Traduction comme Avant-Gardes
Invited talk

Modern Autofictions
Participation in conference

After Life: Aesthetics, Politics, Thought
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Screening the literary
Participation in conference

The Near and the Far
Participation in conference

Re-reading Derrida’s Faith and Knowledge
Participation in conference

International Journal of Francophone Studies (Journal)
Editorial activity

The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture (Journal)
Editorial activity

Modernist Studies Association
Participation in conference

ACLA
Participation in conference

Multilingual French Identities
Participation in conference

Kadin/Women2000 (Journal)
Publication peer-review

exhibition
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Contemporary Poetry in Public Spaces
Participation in conference

"Living Translation" event, The University of Bristol
Invited talk

It Gives us the Other
Participation in conference

Invitation for poetry reading at the Sorbonne University
Invited talk

Colloquy (Journal)
Publication peer-review

Association for the study of Modern and Contemporary France postgraduate study day
Participation in conference

Le Monde de Michel Houellebecq
Participation in conference

Hermes International Symposium, World Literature and World Culture
Participation in conference

Opticon1826 (Journal)
Editorial activity

Abdelbaqi Ghorab

PhD student, Associate Lecturer

Authors and the World
Multilingual Creativities

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