Jan Carson’s Poetics of Care ‘Art is How we Process our Humanity’

Vanessa Boullet is Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts and Modern Languages at Université de Lorraine in Nancy, France. Her research focuses on Irish studies and on the interactions between economy, society and politics in Ireland. She has developed an interest in the impact of multinationals on the Irish economy and its uneven development as well as issues linked to well-being and cooperation between the north and the south of the island. She is the co-editor of the book The Unequal Costs of Covid-19 on Well-Being in Europe (Springer, 2022). She also tries to develop research in Business and Modern Languages departments in France and she is a member of the editorial board of the journal Revue Internationale des Langues Étrangères Appliquées.

Nathalie Collé is Professor of English Studies at Université de Lorraine in Nancy, France. She is an active member and the director of the IDEA (Interdisciplinarité Dans les Études Anglophones) research unit. She specialises in the illustration of classics of English literature, particularly of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century fictional travel literature. The fields covered by her research include book history, print culture, visual culture and material culture, reading and reception, text-image relationships, adaptation and intermediality. She is co-founder of the international research network Illustr4tio , and co-founder and co-director of BPTI (Book Page Text Image, formerly Book Practices & Textual Itineraries at the PUN-EDULOR), a book series devoted to book history, textual scholarship and illustration studies published at Éditions de l'Université de Lorraine.

Monica Latham is Professor of British literature at Université de Lorraine in Nancy, France. She is a specialist of Virginia Woolf and genetic criticism and has published numerous articles on modernist and postmodernist authors. She is the author of A Poetics of Postmodernism and Neomodernism: Rewriting Mrs Dalloway (Palgrave, 2015) and Virginia Woolf’s Afterlives: The Author as Character in Contemporary Fiction and Drama (Routledge, 2021). She is the co-editor of the series Book Page Text Image (Éditions de l'Université de Lorraine), the co-editor of Biofiction Studies (Bloomsbury) and the co-editor of the series Virginia Woolf’s Reading Notebooks (Brepols).

Doriane Nemes is a postgraduate student in English studies at Université de Lorraine. Over the last five years, she has taken part in the collective translation of Mark SaFranko’s The Suicide , Mohale Mashigo’s The Yearning and Jan Carson’s Postcard Stories. She was a research assistant for the ARIEL project from 2021 to 2023, notably helping with the coordination of events, the creation of posters and flyers, and the organisation of both the closing ceremony and the ‘Jan Carson’s Literary Work: Genesis, Illustration, Translation and Awards’ one-day symposium. In 2022, she was awarded an ORION excellency scholarship in order to further her research on Wildean and fin-de-siècle studies. Her Master’s dissertation is entitled ‘Juggling with Masks: Desire for Transgression and Ethical Questionings in Oscar Wilde’s Writings’.

Pauline Schwaller is a doctoral student in English studies at Université de Lorraine. She was an intern for the fourth edition of the ARIEL project, during which she coordinated and moderated literary events, and sometimes worked as an interpreter. Her PhD dissertation focuses on the influence of feminism on the representation of women in postmodernist rewritings of Greek myths.