Professor Nina Parish

Professor in French & Francophone

Literature and Languages - Division Stirling

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Email n.l.parish@stir.ac.uk
TelephoneExtension 7535

ORCID 0000-0002-3354-3576

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I joined the University of Stirling as Professor of French and Francophone Studies in July 2019 after fourteen years in the Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies at the University of Bath.

I work on representations of difficult history, the migrant experience and multilingualism in the museum space. Between 2016 and March this year I was part of the EU-funded Horizon 2020 UNREST team working on innovative memory practices in sites of trauma including war museums and mass graves (www.unrest.eu).

I am also an expert on the interaction between text and image in the field of modern and contemporary French Studies. I have published widely on this subject, in particular, on the poet and visual artist, Henri Michaux. From 2012 to 2016, with Dr Emma Wagstaff (University of Birmingham), I co-organised an international research network, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, on interdisciplinary connections in contemporary French poetic practice (https://frenchpoetryand.wordpress.com/).

I teach across all years of our undergraduate programme at Stirling, acting as module coordinator for EUCU9C7, FREU9D2-D3 and FREU9CH.

Other Project

EU Horizon 2020 - MSCA RISE Memory Across Borders: Dealing with the Legacy of Disputed Territories
2022
See project website for more information: www.disterrmem.eu

EU Horizon 2020 - UNREST (Unsettling Remembering and Social Cohesion in Transnational Europe)
2018
See project website for more information: www.unrest.eu

University of Bath, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Teaching Development Fund, ‘From Scrapbooks to Death Masks: Stepping into the University’s Archives & Research Collections’
University of Bath
2017

Erasmus Mundus Award: Staff exchange with the University of Sydney
University of Sydney
2013
For more information, see: http://www.bath.ac.uk/polis/research/projects/suitcases-boats-bridges-migrant-stories-australian-museums/

Arts and Humanities Research Board PhD Scholarship
2001
Including Study Trip award

‘Modern French Thought and Poetry’, French Department Studentship, Royal Holloway University of London
1999

British Academy Overseas Conference Grant

University of Bath International Researcher Mobility Scheme
For more information, see: http://www.bath.ac.uk/polis/research/projects/suitcases-boats-bridges-migrant-stories-australian-museums/

Research

Representing difficult history, the migrant experience and multilingualism in the museum space; memory studies

Twentieth and twenty-first-century French and Francophone literature and the visual arts and in particular modernism, the avant-gardes, modern and contemporary poetic practice and the artists book

Interdisciplinary studies, with a special emphasis on text and image

Outputs

Book Chapter

Remembering the First World War in France: the Historial de la Grande Guerre and Thiepval Museum

Parish N & Rowley E (2020) Remembering the First World War in France: the Historial de la Grande Guerre and Thiepval Museum. In: Demossier M, Lees D, Mondon A & Parish N (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of French Politics and Culture. Routledge International Handbooks. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 193-203. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-French-Politics-and-Culture-1st-Edition/Demossier-Lees-Mondon-Parish/p/book/9781138101753

Article

War museums as agonistic spaces: possibilities, opportunities and constraints

Cento Bull A, Hansen HL, Kansteiner W & Parish N (2019) War museums as agonistic spaces: possibilities, opportunities and constraints. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 25 (6), pp. 611-625. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2018.1530288

Edited Book

The Routledge Handbook of French Politics and Culture

(2019) The Routledge Handbook of French Politics and Culture. London: Routledge.

Article

War in the Museum: The Historial of the Great War in Péronne and the Military History Museum in Dresden

Cercel C, Parish N & Rowley E (2019) War in the Museum: The Historial of the Great War in Péronne and the Military History Museum in Dresden. Journal of War & Culture Studies, 12 (2), pp. 194-214. https://doi.org/10.1080/17526272.2019.1580846

Book Chapter

Michele Metail: traduire la contrainte

Parish N & Wagstaff E (2019) Michele Metail: traduire la contrainte. In: Royère A (ed.) Michèle Métail: La poèsie en trois dimensions. Dijon, France: Les presses du réel.

Article

Translating Contemporary French Poetry

Wagstaff E & Parish N (2018) Translating Contemporary French Poetry. Irish Journal of French Studies, 18 (1), pp. 163-194. https://doi.org/10.7173/164913318825258347

Edited Book

Poetry's Forms and Transformations

(2018) Poetry's Forms and Transformations. Johns Hopkins University Press.

Other

War Museums and Agonistic Memory: a Report

Berger S, Bull AC, Wóycicka Z, Cercel C, Parish N, Quinkenstein MA, Rowley E, Dodd J & Plumb S (2018) War Museums and Agonistic Memory: a Report. Museum Worlds, 6 (1), pp. 112-124. https://doi.org/10.3167/armw.2018.060109

Other

Alessandro De Francesco, Augmented Writing – Translation As Augmentation. “Covering an Enhanced Real” – For Jean-Marie Gleize, mixed media, 40cmx40cm (2010)

Parish N & Wagstaff E (2018) Alessandro De Francesco, Augmented Writing – Translation As Augmentation. “Covering an Enhanced Real” – For Jean-Marie Gleize, mixed media, 40cmx40cm (2010).

Other

Poetry

Parish N & Wagstaff E (2018) Poetry.

Article

Representing multilingual difficult history: Voices of the First World War in the Kobarid Museum (Slovenia) and the Historial de la Grande Guerre (France)

Deganutti M, Parish N & Rowley E (2018) Representing multilingual difficult history: Voices of the First World War in the Kobarid Museum (Slovenia) and the Historial de la Grande Guerre (France). Journal of Specialised Translation, (29), pp. 63-80. https://www.jostrans.org/issue29/art_deganutti.php

Article

French, English or Kanak Languages? Can Traditional Languages and Cultures Be Sustained in New Caledonia?

Bissoonauth A & Parish N (2017) French, English or Kanak Languages? Can Traditional Languages and Cultures Be Sustained in New Caledonia?. PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 14 (2), pp. 39-53. https://doi.org/10.5130/portal.v14i2.5378

Article

Suitcases, keys and handkerchiefs: how are objects being used to collect and tell migrant stories in Australian museums?

O’Reilly C & Parish N (2017) Suitcases, keys and handkerchiefs: how are objects being used to collect and tell migrant stories in Australian museums?. Museums and Social Issues, 12 (2), pp. 99-114. https://doi.org/10.1080/15596893.2017.1386015

Edited Book

Writing the Real: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary French Poetry

(2016) Writing the Real: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary French Poetry. London: Enitharmon Press.

Article

Pierre Lecuire: assessing the coexistence of the material and the virtual in his Modernist publishing project

Parish N & Wagstaff E (2016) Pierre Lecuire: assessing the coexistence of the material and the virtual in his Modernist publishing project. Word & Image, 32 (2), pp. 143-152. https://doi.org/10.1080/02666286.2016.1143768

Article

Telling migrant stories in museums in Australia: Does the community gallery still have a role to play?

O'Reilly C & Parish N (2015) Telling migrant stories in museums in Australia: Does the community gallery still have a role to play?. Museum Management and Curatorship, 30 (4), pp. 296-313. https://doi.org/10.1080/09647775.2015.1044461

Book Chapter

Portraits and Neologisms: Understanding the Visual in Henri Michaux's 'Voyage en Grande Garabagne'

Parish N (2013) Portraits and Neologisms: Understanding the Visual in Henri Michaux's 'Voyage en Grande Garabagne'. In: The Art of the Text: Visuality in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literary and Other Media. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.

Edited Book

Chantiers du poème: Prémisses et pratiques de la création poétique moderne et contemporaine

(2013) Chantiers du poème: Prémisses et pratiques de la création poétique moderne et contemporaine. Modern French Identities, 104. Peter Lang UK. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0402-2

Edited Book

Poetic Practice and the Practice of Poetics in French since 1945

(2012) Poetic Practice and the Practice of Poetics in French since 1945.

Book Chapter

Poésie et technologie: Les transformations numériques de l’espace poétique contemporain

Parish N (2012) Poésie et technologie: Les transformations numériques de l’espace poétique contemporain. In: Chantiers du poème : Prémisses et pratiques de la création poétique moderne et contemporaine, ed. by Hugues Azérad et al. Modern French Identities, 104. Oxford: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, pp. 213-28.

Book Chapter

Lire le visuel dans 'Voyage en Grande Garabagne': Une approche interdisciplinaire

Parish N (2012) Lire le visuel dans 'Voyage en Grande Garabagne': Une approche interdisciplinaire. In: 'Voyage en Grande Garabagne' de Henri Michaux. Bologna: Clueb, pp. 7-25.

Book Chapter

From Radio to the Internet. Italian Futurism, New Technologies and the Persistence of the Book

Parish N (2012) From Radio to the Internet. Italian Futurism, New Technologies and the Persistence of the Book. In: De Gruyter.

Article

A textless title: The mythical status of Blaise Cendrars’ La Légende de Novgorode

Parish N (2012) A textless title: The mythical status of Blaise Cendrars’ La Légende de Novgorode. Journal of European Studies, 42 (1), pp. 22-33. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047244111428843

Book Chapter

Pour faire un livre dadaïste: Dada Experimentation with Book Form

Parish N (2011) Pour faire un livre dadaïste: Dada Experimentation with Book Form. In: Dada and Beyond. Volume 1: Dada Discourses. Avantgarde Critical Studies. Amsterdam: Rodopi.

Book Chapter

Between Text and Image, East and West: Henri Michaux’s Signs and Christian Dotremont’s “Logogrammes”

Parish N (2010) Between Text and Image, East and West: Henri Michaux’s Signs and Christian Dotremont’s “Logogrammes”. In: ‘The Reception of Ideograms in Early 20th Century European Poetry’, ed. by Enrico Monti, RiLUnE - Review of Literatures of the European Union, 8. Bologna, pp. 67-80.

Book Chapter

Henri Michaux: Poète du vingtième siècle?

Parish N (2009) Henri Michaux: Poète du vingtième siècle?. In: Regards sur la poésie du XXe siècle. Presses universitaires de Namur/Editions namuroises/Editions poiêtês, pp. 373-394.

Article

Mediating the creative act via word and image. The case of Henri Michaux, a double artist

Parish N (2008) Mediating the creative act via word and image. The case of Henri Michaux, a double artist. Letteratura e Arte, 6, pp. 125-133. https://doi.org/10.1400/104495

Article

From book to page to screen: Poetry and new media

Parish N (2008) From book to page to screen: Poetry and new media. Yale French Studies, 114, pp. 51-66. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20479417

Book Chapter

L'imaginaire oriental: Les formes et les fonctions des caractères chinois dans l'expérimentation des signes d'Henri Michaux

Parish N (2007) L'imaginaire oriental: Les formes et les fonctions des caractères chinois dans l'expérimentation des signes d'Henri Michaux. In: Texte, image, imaginaire. Structures et pouvoirs des imaginaires. Paris: L'Harmattan, pp. 227--236.

Monograph

Henri Michaux: Experimentation with Signs

Parish N (2007) Henri Michaux: Experimentation with Signs. Faux titre. Amsterdam: Rodopi.

Book Chapter

Le corps et le mouvement dans les livres composés de signes d’Henri Michaux

Parish N (2006) Le corps et le mouvement dans les livres composés de signes d’Henri Michaux. In: Henri Michaux: Je vous écris d’un pays lointain, Textyles, 29 (Revue des lettres belges de langue française), ed. by V Jago-Antoine & J Carion. Brussels, pp. 44-52.

Book Chapter

Henri Michaux: Destruction of the Book Form and Creation of the Book-Object

Parish N (2004) Henri Michaux: Destruction of the Book Form and Creation of the Book-Object. In: Reading Images Seeing Words. Faux titre. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 19-36.

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