Dr Erika Fulop
Senior Lecturer in FrenchCurrent Teaching
DELC348:French Culture in the Digital Age
DELC337: Mirrors across Media: Reflexivity in Literature, Film, Comics and Video Games
FREN233: Shaping Contemporary France: Culture, Politics and the Legacy of History
DELC401: Research Skills for Modern Linguists
DELC416: Academic and Practical Methods in Translation
Research Interests
I am fascinated by the new modes and forms of writing and creativity and the changing conditions of literature in the digital age, and this constitutes one of my two major research interests. I have presented and published papers on the ways in which writers use the web as a medium for their artistic projects rather than just as a means of publication, the possibilities this new medium opens for writing and 'doing literature', inlcuding in the form of YouTube videos, and the transformation of the processes through which texts reach their audiences. I also explore these issues with students taking the module 'French Culture in the Digital Age'.
At the same time, I have a continuing interest in narratology, in particular the forms, expressions, and implications of reflexivity, which can go so far as calling into question the limits of logic and reason. These questions link to my more general interest in the ways in which our modes of thinking are culturally determined and in literature’s potential to explore ways to transgress the resulting limitations. My first monograph, entitled Proust, the One, and the Many: Identity and Difference in A la recherche du temps perdu (Oxford: Legenda, 2012), also investigated related issues, offering a reading of Proust's monumental novel from the perspective of modern and contemporary French and German philosophy.
Research Overview
My research interests lie mainly in two broader areas: the impact of digitization and the internet on culture, and literature in particular; and the modern and contemporary novel, especially metafiction and self-reflexive phenomena, and the narrative theoretical and philosophical issues these raise. More generally I am interested in the intersections between literature, philosophy, and cultural theory. The authors I have worked on include Marcel Proust, Amélie Nothomb, Éric Chevillard, Jacques Roubaud, Brice Matthieussent, Gabrielle Wittkop, and philosophers from Schelling and Ravaisson to Nietzsche and the French poststructuralists (Deleuze, Derrida), and more recently contemporary logician Graham Priest.
PhD Supervision Interests
- Digital culture and the effects of digitization on literature, culture, and society; experimental writing on the internet (in French or comparative approaches) - Modern and contemporary fiction (French-focused or comparative projects involving texts in English, Spanish, Italian, German, or Hungarian) - Marcel Proust - Narrative theory, especially self-reflexivity in art and literature - Interactions between literature and philosophy - Cultural theory; postmodernism and its aftermath
Studies in Computing to enable research and teaching on Electronic Literature and Digital Culture
18/01/2021 → 17/01/2022
Research
Studies in Computing to enable research and teaching on Electronic Literature and Digital Culture
18/01/2021 → 03/06/2022
Research
Auteur numérique / Digital Authorship
01/03/2018 → 18/12/2020
Research
The Creative Web of Languages
15/01/2018 → 30/11/2019
Research
Graphic Futures
17/10/2017 → 30/06/2018
Research
Screening the Literary: Writing Quality on the web
01/10/2016 → 31/03/2018
Research
Authors and the World
01/09/2015 → …
Research
Storytelling
01/09/2014 → 30/09/2016
Other
Narrative and Complex Systems
03/09/2012 → 30/09/2017
Other
Extension du domaine de la littérature
Participation in conference
Conference of the Electronic Literature Organisation
Participation in conference
Translating Practices
Participation in conference
Literature in the Digital Space
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
La narrativité contemporaine attrapée par la réflexivité
Participation in conference
Enregistrer le réel: du linéaire au sphérique
Invited talk
Writing, by all means: YouTube, a new literary (cyber)space
Invited talk
Plus étrange qu’une métalepse : réflexions sur la réflexivité entre littérature et cinéma
Invited talk
Screening the literary
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
24th annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing
Participation in conference
Du contre-récit à l’histoire (d’un récit): Limites, ou les faits et gestes littéraires de François Bon
Invited talk
Narrative – Conference of the International Society for the Study of Narrative
Participation in conference
Cognitive Futures in the Humanities
Participation in conference
The Child of the Century
Participation in conference
Narrative Complexity and Complex Systems: The Uses and Limits of an Analogy
Invited talk
Le Sujet digital
Participation in conference
Fictionality, Factuality, Reflexivity
Participation in conference
Telling storytelling: la métafiction moderne et postmoderne, négation et/ou affirmation du récit?
Invited talk
Cent ans de jalousie proustienne - Book Launch Discussion
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
One Hundred Years of Jealousy - Homage to Swann
Participation in conference
La fiction contemporaine face à ses pouvoirs
Participation in conference
Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow
Fellowship awarded competitively