University of London, Birkbeck College

Faculty Member, English and Humanities

Lecturer

About

I am a lecturer at Birkbeck College, convening modules on the Bible in English Literature and the Fin de Siècle period.

I'm currently working on a number of couple of books: a set of translations from the Grand Jeu journal which was published in Paris in the late 1920s (and which had a rocky, on-off relationship with the Surrealist movement), and a collection of essays about the contemporary British novelist Tom McCarthy.

At the same time, I'm also preparing a monograph, based on my PhD thesis, about the French literary coterie, the Oulipo, looking at how the group use translation: things like pseudotranslations (texts which claim to be translations but where no original exists), homophonic translations (carrying over the sound of a text as opposed to its meaning), and made-up languages.

In addition, I've recently written articles and papers on Joyce, Calvino, and a few things on Bible translation.  I'm trying to find some time now to write an article on novels with indexes.

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