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Dr Henriette Korthals Altes

Positions held:
  • Associate Lecturer A, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
  • Overview

    Overview

  • Research

    Research

    Research overview

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    I am a specialist in 20th听and 21st听century French literature and thought. I have widely published on questions of mourning in听Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Pascal Quignard and Pierre Michon.听 My doctoral research has branched out into several lines of enquiry. Situated at the crossroads of cultural, memory and trauma studies, they hinge around questions of memory, the construction of history and the relation between fiction and history. My research on subjectivity and mourning has led me to look at how national narratives are shaped by cultural mourning, in particular the Vichy period. My current work on the migrant crisis has looked at issues of hospitality, responsibility and grievability whilst my recent work on the 2015 Paris attacks has concerned itself with the representation of trauma, national narratives and the possible roles of transitional and restorative justice.

    More recently, I have convened two conferences on the work of Michel Serres. 鈥楳ichel Serres: Thinking beyond boundaries' (MFO, June 2022) has given rise to a special issue of the same title published by听Parrhesia.听The proceedings of the second conference I convened in this series, 鈥楳ichel Serres and Bruno Latour in conversation鈥 (May 2024) has been accepted for publication as a special issue with听French Studies听(scheduled for April 2027).听

    I enjoy writing for mainstream media and my work has appeared in the听Times Literary Supplement, the听Guardian, the听Observer, the听Literary Review听and听The Economist.

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    SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

    Michel Serres: Thinking Beyond Borders, ed. by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Henriette Korthals Altes听Parrhesia, Volume 40听(December 2024)

    'V13: Chronicle of a Trial by Emmanuel Carr猫re review 鈥 a humane and thoughtful testimony of terror and loss',听The Observer, (3 November 2024)

    鈥溾極f a functional value of the idea of God鈥: Michel Serres, religion and the beauty of mathematics鈥 in in听Parrhesia, Volume 40 (December 2024)

    'Resilience, Resistance: the collective mourning of the 2015 November attacks in听En Th茅rapie'听in听Saison: La Revue des S茅ries听(Paris: Classiques-Garnier, September 2024)

    鈥楩iction as Legal Authority? Orwell, Snowden, and State Cyber-Surveillance鈥櫶齣n听Can Fiction Change the World, ed. by Alison James, Fran莽oise Lavocat and Kubo Akihiro (Oxford: Legenda, 2023), pp. 177-190

    鈥楻oland Barthes, Jacques Derrida and the gift of tears: beyond mourning and melancholia鈥 in听Variations on the Ethics of Mourning in Modern Literature in French听(Oxford: Peter Lang, 2021) ed. by Carole Bourne-Taylor and Sara-Louise Cooper, with an introduction by Dominique Rabat茅, pp. 129-15

    鈥榃hen dance meets texts: Pascal Quignard鈥檚听Medea鈥,听Revue听Le Sans Visage 2听(2021)听Saint-Louis University Press,听ed. by Jean-Louis Pautrot听

    鈥楯ouir fantasmatiquement de mon corps unifi茅鈥: Music, Writing and Affect in Barthes鈥檚听L鈥橭bvie et l鈥檕btus' Barthes Studies, Vol. 3, Nov. 2017听

  • Supervision and teaching

    Supervision and teaching

    Teaching

    Teaching modules

    • French 1 (Level 4)
  • Business and community

    Business and community

    I have media training.

    Media

    I am happy to receive enquiries from the media on the following topics:

    • 20th and 21st century French literature and thought

    Outreach

    I enjoy writing for mainstream media and my work has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, the Guardian, the Observer, the Literary Review and The Economist.


    Latest publications include:

    路听听听听听听 Review of V13: Chronicle of a Trial by Emmanuel Carr猫re, The Observer, 3 November 2024
    路听听听听听听 Review of Down with the Poor! by Shumona Sinha, Times Literary Supplement, 7 July 2023
    路听听听听听听 Review of The Easy Life by Marguerite Duras, Times Literary Supplement, 31March 2023
    路听听听听听听 Review of Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux: The end of the Affair, The Literary Review, Dec. 2022
    路听听听听听听 Review of La plus secr猫te m茅moire des hommes by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Times Literary Supplement, 12 August 2022
    路听听听听听听 Review of La Familia Grande by Camille Kouchner, Times Literary Supplement, 3 June 2022
    路听听听听听听 Revie of Les Enfants sont rois by Delphine de Vigan, Times Literary Supplement, 21 August 2021
    路听听听听听听 Review of L鈥橝nomalie by Le Tellier Times Literary Supplement, 18 December 2020
    路听听听听听听 Review of La Mer 脿 l鈥檈nvers by Marie Darrieussecq, Times Literary Supplement, 10 July 2020