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Liliane Campos, MCF en études anglophones et théâtrales à l’université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, et membre junior de l’IUF, soutiendra sa candidature à l’HDR le vendredi 16 janvier (garante: Catherine Bernard). Cette soutenance se tiendra dans la Salle des thèses (Halle aux Farines, Campus des Grands Moulins) et débutera à 14.00.
Le titre du document de synthèse est: Science and the Imagination of Life in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Theatre in English.
L’inédit d’HDR a pour titre: Entangled Life in Twenty-first Century Fiction. A Multi-Scalar Poetics. Il paraîtra en 2026, auprès de Cambridge University Press, dans la collection Cambridge Studies in Twenty-first-century Literature and Culture.
Résumé de l’inédit: Entangled Life in Twenty-first Century Fiction argues that contemporary fiction is shaping a new, multi-scalar view of life. In the early twenty-first century, humans face complex relations of dependency with the invisibly small and the ungraspably huge, from the viral to the planetary. It examines how anglophone fiction imagines this ecological interdependence. It outlines an emergent poetics across a range of genres, including realist fiction, science fiction, weird fiction, and dystopian fiction. Arguing that literary form performs epistemic and ethical work, Liliane Campos analyses the rhetorical strategies through which these stories connect human and non-human scales. She shows that fiction uses three recurrent devices – critical synecdoche, ontological metalepsis, and scalar irony – to shape our awareness of other scales and forms of life, and our response-ability towards them.
Le jury de soutenance sera composé de:
Elisabeth Angel-Perez, Sorbonne Université, examinatrice
Jean-Michel Ganteau, Université Paul-Valéry-Montpellier, rapporteur
Alexandra Poulain, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, examinatrice
Cécile Roudeau, Université Paris Cité, présidente du jury
Pieter Vermeulen, Université KU Leuven, rapporteur
Michael Whitworth, Université d’Oxford, examinateur
Catherine Bernard, Université Paris Cité, garante