REGNAULD Arnaud (PR)

Arnaud Regnauld is Professor of American Literature and Translation Studies and Vice-President for Research at the University of Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint-Denis. He has coordinated Paris 8’s European University Project (ERUA - European Reform University Alliance)with Dominique Willoughby and Séverine Bortot. He is also head of LISH Master’s in Translation program.

After writing extensively on John Hawkes’ later works, he has conducted research on Carter Scholz, Gary Lutz, Diane Williams and Matthew Derby’s short-stories, Percival Everett, Ben Marcus, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Richard Powers’ novels, Jim Rosenberg’s electronic poetry as well as on Mark Amerika, Michael Joyce, Shelley Jackson, Illya Szilak and Grégory Chatonsky’s digital and print works. He is the author of a monograph on Patchwork Girl by Shelley Jackson (to be published in 2020) and the editor of several collective works, the most recent ones being The Digital Subject, Dijon : Labex Arts-H2H-Presses du réel, 2017 and Subjectivités numériques et posthumain, Presses Universités de Rennes, 2020. His most recent research focuses on new forms of textuality in the digital era and their translation as well as on the relationship between art, literature and philosophy, and the theorization of the cybertranslator’s task.

As Co-Head of “The Digital Subject” four-year transdisciplinary research program (2011-2015) sponsored by Labex Arts-H2H, his most recent research focuses on new forms of textuality in the digital era and their translation. This project has been pursued within the research program entitled "Worlds, interfaces and environments in the digital era" (2016-2020) sponsored by ArTeC graduate school (formerly Labex Arts-H2H).

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University titles :

  • 1991 ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE de Fontenay St-Cloud, English section.
     
  • 1995  AGREGATION d’anglais, option Literature.
     
  • 2002 PhD in Anglophone world studies (études du monde anglophone) from the University of Paris III : « La tentation de l’érotisme dans l’œuvre de John Hawkes ». Highest honor with a unanimous special commendation from the jury (558 pages).

    Members of the jury : M. le Professeur Gérard Deléchelle (Université François Rabelais, Tours), Mme le Professeur Marie-Christine Lemardeley (Université Paris III), Mme le Professeur Claudine Raynaud (Université François Rabelais, Tours), Mme le Professeur Françoise Sammarcelli (Université Paris IV), Mme le Professeur Christine Savinel (Université Paris III ; Jury President).
     

  • 2012 HABILITATION À DIRIGER DES RECHERCHES - Université Paris 7 Denis-Diderot. Synthesis paper : « L’Incarnation dans la littérature américaine contemporaine (20ème- 21ème siècles) » (194 pages).

    Members of the jury : M. le Professeur Yves Abrioux (Université Paris 8), Mme la Professeure Isabelle Alfandary (Université Paris 12), Antoine Cazé (Université Paris 7 ; guarantor), M. le Professeur Mathieu Duplay (Université Paris 7 ; President), M. le Professeur Bertrand Gervais (UQAM, Canada).