VANDERHAEGHE Stéphane (MCF)

Stéphane VANDERHAEGHE is an Associate Professor at the University of Paris 8 where he teaches American Literature and Translation. His research deals mainly with contemporary American fiction—especially with regards to its experimental aspects—and sits at the intersection of literature, philosophy, and the digital humanities. He is also a translator and writer.

Projects

I am currently working on the theorization of speculative fiction in the United States, where the term speculation is understood in its philosophical sense, notably in the wake of “speculative realism” (Meillassoux) or object-oriented ontology (Harman, Morton…). For the purposes of this project, which will result in a book to be published by the University of Alabama Press—the writing of which was made possible in part by a delegation within the LARCA laboratory of the University of Paris from 2019 to 2021—I am primarily interested in the works of Ben Marcus, Blake Butler, Shelley Jackson, Lucy Corin, Mark Doten, Jason Schwartz or Gary Lutz.

Essays :

Co-edited publications :

  • « Conjunctions of the Literary and the Philosophical in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century American Writing », Transatlantica, 1 2020. Dossier co-edited with Richard Anker. https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/15186
     
  • « L’expérimental dans la littérature et les arts contemporains », Miranda, n° 16/2018. Dossier co-edited with Brigitte Félix, Hélène Lecossois and Anne-Laure Fortin-Tournès. https://journals.openedition.org/miranda/11313 
     
  • The Review of Contemporary Fiction : Robert Coover Festschrift, Spring 2012, Vol. XXXII, n° 1 (Normal, Ill. : Dalkey Archive Press).

Recent articles :

  • « Jason Schwartz, ou la fiction brisée », RFEA n° 175, La frustration, Yves Gardes (ed.), 2023/2, pp. 38-52.

  • « The Infernal (2015) de Mark Doten — Mondes, machine, interface ». Apocalypses. Hélène Machinal, Monica Michlin, Arnaud Regnauld (eds.). Otrante. n°47-48, spring-fall 2020, pp. 337-50.
     
  • « Tentative d’approche d’une fiction spéculative », in Unmoored Languages. Lectures du monde anglophone, n°5 2020 http://publis-shs.univ-rouen.fr/eriac/index.php?id=748
     
  • « ‘In the end of commentary’ — 300,000,000 de Blake Butler, ou la fiction absolue », RFEA n°159, Mutations de la métafiction, Yannicke Chupin (ed.), 2019/2, pp. 38-49.