SANNAEE John
John Sannaee is a Doctor of Comparative Literature (Paris 8 University, supervised by Claire Joubert). Entitled ‘Post-migratory Lyricism in England and France (1997-2023) : Voices of a generation at the crossroads of national literary traditions and globalised popular culture’, his doctoral research focuses on contemporary post-immigration English and French literature. John works on lyric, oral, online and hybrid forms ; the junction of affective experience and politics ; and overlaps between popular culture and literary traditions. His current research explores the creation of literary identities and ideas of home shared with nonhumans (animals, plants, elements of landscape) in ecopoetry by BAME and other marginalised writers.
John has worked as a lecturer (ATER, maître de langue) at the New Sorbonne and Paris Dauphine Universities. He is also a published poet, writer, editor and translator.
Publications
- ‘Post-migratory Lyricism : Defining a Transnational Trend’ in Postmigration and Postcolonialism in French- and German-language Literature and Music, De Gruyter (forthcoming in 2025).
- ‘A Return to the Lyric in Contemporary British Poetry ?’ Text, Image and Sound (due for publication in Autumn 2024).
- ‘Online transmission as a new route into poetry for marginalised voices.’ LOOP (due for publication in Autumn 2024).
- ‘New Lyric Writing : Blurring the Boundary Between Popular and High Culture.’ Journal of European Popular Culture, February 2024.
- ‘Reclaiming Britain’s Multicultural Cities beyond London : Spoken Word Poets Manzoor-Khan & Leeds Young Authors.’ Études britanniques contemporaines no.63, December 2022.
- ‘Frances métisses, Frances métèques ? How Poet-Rappers Gaël Faye and Abd al Malik are claiming and shaping homes, identities and belongings in contemporary France.’ Chimères, April 2022.
- ‘Returning to Starlight.’ Artis Natura, April 2021.
Conference Presentations
- Invited speaker at the conference ‘Postmigration and Postcolonialism in French- and German-language Literature and Music’, Paris, March 2024. (‘Post-migratory Lyricism, a trasnantional literary trend’)
- ‘Building on a counter-canonical heritage : 21st century regional minority voices in the British spoken word scene.’ Invited speaker at a study day for the Canon Factory project, Sorbonne University, February 2024.
- ‘New Lyric Forms as a Transnational Minor Literature.’ British Comparative Literature Association Conference, Queen’s University Belfast, November 2022.
- ‘Speaking the City, Disrupting the City : How immigrant-descent Spoken Word poets reclaim Britain’s postcolonial multicultural cities by enacting their disruption(s).’ ‘Disrupting the City’ Conference, Avignon Université, October 2021.
- ‘Nouvelles oralités ? Formes mineures qui prennent de l’ampleur’ (English title : ‘New Oralities ? Minor Forms on the Rise’) ‘Actualité critique’ seminar doctoral colloquium, Paris VIII University, June 2021.
- ‘The métis homes and belongings of Gaël Faye and other immigrant-origin lyricists in contemporary France.’ ASMCF Conference, University of Leeds, September 2020.
- ‘Ancrages urbains, ancrages ruraux : les catégories identitaires à l’épreuve du vécu dans les récits de vie de femmes marginalisées’ (English title : ‘Urban and Rural Anchorings : Identitarian Categories Challenged in the Life Writing of Marginalised Women’). ‘Actualité critique’ seminar doctoral colloquium, Paris VIII University, Summer 2020.
- ‘Mémoire métisse : The power of everyday sites of memory in Kim Lefèvre’s autobiographical work.’
Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Annual Conference, University of Westminster, November 2019. - ‘Réseaux de (dés)appartenance : comment la parole des écrivains d’origine immigrée en France et au Royaume-Uni actuels négocie l’identification et l’appartenance géographiques et socio-culturelles.’ (English title : ‘Networks of (Un)Belonging : How the Lyrics of Contemporary Immigrant Origin Writers in France and the UK Negotiate Geographic and Socio-Cultural Identity and Belonging’)
‘Actualité critique’ seminar doctoral colloquium, Paris VIII University, December 2018. - ‘The Image of Society’s Other on Television : A Spiral of Fear.’
CSLC Symposium, University of Southern California, April 2017.
