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Jane Malcolm

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Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département de littératures et de langues du monde

Pavillon Lionel-Groulx office C-8120

jane.malcolm@umontreal.ca

514 343-6755

Biography

Jane Malcolm joined the English Department at the Université de Montréal in April 2012. Her research interests include poetry and poetics, British, American, and European modernism, extra-literary modernism, the poetics of gender, the problem of difficulty, and the theory and practice of translation. Her work has appeared in Arizona QuarterlyVLAKAModernLemon Hound, and Jacket2. A co-edited edition of Laura Riding's 1928 volume of criticism, Contemporaries and Snobs, was published by the University of Alabama's Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series in 2014. She is currently working on a book about gender ambivalence and modernist innovation in the work of H.D., Mina Loy, Laura Riding, and Gertrude Stein.

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Education Programs

  • Literature and Languages
  • Literature and Languages
  • Literature and Languages
  • Literature and Languages
  • Literature and Languages
  • Arts and Music
  • Humanities Social Sciences

Courses

  • ANG2461 Sexuality and Representation

Areas of Expertise

Student supervision Expand all Collapse all

“Some say that happy women are immaterial:” ecofeminist materiality in the work of Virginia Woolf and Mina Loy Thèses et mémoires dirigés / 2024 - 2024
Graduate : Jones, Alyssa
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
Noisy and haptic interventions in the feminist codex : daring refusals by H. D., Lisa Robertson, Rachel Zolf, and Erín Moure Thèses et mémoires dirigés / 2019 - 2019
Graduate : MacEachern, Jessica N.
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
The poetics of translation : a thinking structure Thèses et mémoires dirigés / 2019 - 2019
Graduate : Robichaud, Geneviève
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Performing femininity within masculine circles : a study of negation in the works of Mina Loy Thèses et mémoires dirigés / 2018 - 2018
Graduate : To, Philippe Shane
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
“I Do This, You Do That:” mass consumption and subversive protopolitics in Frank O’Hara’s poetry Thèses et mémoires dirigés / 2017 - 2017
Graduate : Germain, Gabriel
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
Waxing Ornamental : Reading a Poetics of Excess in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood Thèses et mémoires dirigés / 2015 - 2015
Graduate : Taylor, Benjamin
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
Engendered Conversations: Gender Subversion Through Fictional Dialogue in Lawrence, Hemingway and Forster Thèses et mémoires dirigés / 2015 - 2015
Graduate : Snelgrove, Allison
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.

Research projects Expand all Collapse all

The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Laura Riding 1927-1930, a Scholarly Edition Projet de recherche au Canada / 2019 - 2022

Lead researcher : Jane Malcolm
Funding sources: CRSH/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada
Grant programs: PVX20020-Subvention institutionnelle du CRSH - Subventions d'exploration

Girly Modernism and the Poetics of Excess: Reading Djuna Barnes, Frances Simpson Stevens, and Mina Loy Projet de recherche au Canada / 2018 - 2021

Lead researcher : Jane Malcolm
Funding sources: CRSH/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada
Grant programs: PVX20020-Subvention institutionnelle du CRSH - Subventions d'exploration

L'AMBIVALENCE FEMINISTE ET LA PRATIQUE MODERNE : UNE APPROCHE DE LA POESIE DE MINA LOY H.D ET GERTRUDE STEIN Projet de recherche au Canada / 2013 - 2019

Lead researcher : Jane Malcolm
Funding sources: FRQSC/Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FQRSC)
Grant programs: PV113813-(NP) Soutien à la recherche pour la relève professorale

PETITES SUBVENTIONS 2012-2013 - ALONE TOGETHER : REVISITING H.D., MINA LOY, AND GERTRUDE STEIN Projet de recherche au Canada / 2012 - 2014

Lead researcher : Jane Malcolm
Funding sources: CRSH/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada
Grant programs: PVX20020-Subvention institutionnelle du CRSH - Petites subventions

Publications Expand all Collapse all

Books:

A Description of Acquaintance: The Letters of Laura Riding and Gertrude Stein 1927-1930, edited by Logan Esdale and Jane Malcolm. University of New Mexico Press, Recencies Series, 2023.

Contemporaries and Snobs (1928) by Laura Riding, edited by Laura Heffernan and Jane Malcolm. University of Alabama Press, Modern & Contemporary Poetics Series, Eds.Charles Bernstein and Hank Lazer, 2014.

Articles and chapters:

Amodern11: Body and/as Procedure. Special issue edited by Jane Malcolm and Sarah Dowling, October 2023 https://amodern.net/issues/amodern-11/

"Ono Optics: Toward a Theory of the Perfectly Unreadable." Amodern11: Body and/as Procedure, October 2023 https://amodern.net/article/ono-optics/

"Transfer and Estrangement: Gail Scott in Conversation with Jane Malcolm." Jacket2, February 2020. https://jacket2.org/interviews/transfer-and-estrangement

‘All Alone with English: Teaching Stein in a Multilingual Context.” Approaches to Teaching Gertrude Stein, Eds. Logan Esdale and Deborah Mix. Modern Language Association (MLA) Publications, New York: 184-190, 2018.

“You Can’t Evict an Idea: The Poetics of Occupy Wall Street.” With Charles Bernstein. In Pitch of Poetry by Charles Bernstein. University of Chicago Press: 13-28, 2016.

“‘the poem among us, between us, there’: Muriel Rukeyser’s Meta-Poetics and the Communal Soundscape. Amodern4:The Poetry Series, Eds. Jason Camlot and Darren Wershler, 2015. https://amodern.net/article/poem-among-us/

“Dysfunctional Families: On Alice Notley’s Doctor Williams’s Heiresses.” VLAK: Contemporary Poetics and the Arts, 2015.

"'We peer through various portals': A Review of Gail Scott's The Obituary. Jacket2, April 2013. https://jacket2.org/reviews/we-peer-through-various-portals

"'That breeding silence she': Laura Riding's Gendered Ethics and the Limits of the Word 'Woman.'" Arizona Quarterly, Volume 65, Number 3: 61-85, 2009.

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