Lecturer in French Studies
@LancasterUni
Medical Humanities, hospital architecture, French philosophy, & LGBTQIA+ health/care. Network lead:
@QueerMedHums
🏳️🌈
Presenting the new MA in Global Medical and Health Humanities
@LancasterUni
@globalaffairslu
! This MA activates interdisciplinary teaching & research across the arts, humanities & social sciences to respond to major healthcare challenges facing the world.
why does academia have to be architecturally organised into closed, lonely individual offices? can we not redesign academia and all be in shared open plan spaces? I visited an open plan office today and it was so nice?!? who would prefer that? surely better for collabs and MH?
Does everyone else have one of those Microsoft Word documents that you dump copy and pasted deleted material from your actual draft into? What do you saved that document as? Just curious. Mine is called 'Scrapheap Challenge'
#phdlife
#phdchat
#canyoubelieve
Over the moon to say that I will be joining Lancaster University
@DeLCLancaster
as Lecturer in French Studies from January! So excited to work in such an amazing department and can’t wait to get started! All my love and thanks to everyone who has supported me along the way ❤️❤️❤️
Joining the Leverhulme rejection club - feeling really sad to be honest. Lots of love everyone, let’s all just gorgeously quit and do something utterly, wonderfully different xxx
ANNNND I’VE SUBMITTED MY PHD THESIS!!!!!: “Plasticity in Contemporary French Thought, Literature and Film: Witnessing Transformations with Catherine Malabou”
Going to be joining the University of Birmingham as a Teaching Fellow in French, Sexuality and Gender for the coming year! I cannot wait to work in a faculty I admire so much and in a city I love! Here are some artist impressions of my academic year to come
@unibirmingham
Thank you so much
@french_studies
! I am so grateful and happy for this Fellowship to continue my research at
@unibirmingham
@LCAHM_UoB
, completing my monograph on Malabou and plasticity, & continuing my postdoc project on the hospital in French philosophy! Can’t wait to begin! ❤️
Congratulations to the winner of the 2022 Postdoctoral Prize Fellowship scheme:
@BenBGDalton
(
@UniBirmingham
)☀️, for a project on Catherine Malabou, the relation of her theorizing of plasticity to contemporary literature and film, and an emerging related project on the hospital.
Excited to have signed the contract with
@EdinburghUP
for my book “Catherine Malabou and contemporary French literature and film: witnessing plasticity”! My book maps Malabou’s explorations of (neuro)plasticity and change alongside depictions of transformation in lit and film📖
Gave my first Lancaster lecture today ! This one was on modernism and postmodernism in architecture and urban planning, moving between Le Corbusier and Guy Debord. And snowing outside!! ❄️☃️❄️☃️❄️
Thanks so much to
@french_studies
for awarding my article on plasticity in Marie Darrieussecq and Catherine Malabou runner-up in the Malcolm Bowie Prize for best article published in 2020 - I’m really over the moon and touched and grateful for this! ❤️❤️❤️
Congratulations also to the runner-up:
@BenBGDalton
(Paris Nanterre) for his article ‘Forms of Freedoms: Marie Darrieussecq, Catherine Malabou, and the Plasticity of Science’, Dalhousie French Studies, 115 (2020).
Final day on
@unibirmingham
campus before starting my new job at Lancaster in Jan! I’ve had such an amazing time here in Modern Languages
@LCAHM_UoB
. Thanks so much to everyone who made my time here so wonderful and for being so welcoming and supportive and exciting!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
walked in to teach my first class this morning with my serious coat on and my serious hair and serious photocopies only for my laptop to start blaring out « Jaja Ding Dong » from the Eurovision movie as soon as I opened it
has anyone in the history of academia ever been able to connect, harmoniously and unproblematically, to Eduroam? I’m actually curious. is anyone the eduroam whisperer?
It’s me outside the Ashley building at
@unibirmingham
!! Had a genuinely gorgeous first couple of weeks here and really excited for term to start next week 🕺🚀🪐
My book chapter on Alain Guiraudie, Catherine Malabou, plasticity and queerness has been published in the books Beasts of the Forest (ed. Séan Harrington and Jon Hackett) My chapter is called: “Cruising the Queer Forest with Alain Guiraudie: Woods, Plastics, Plasticities”
🚨Some exciting personal news!! (lol) 🚨I stopped drinking alcohol 50 days ago!!! NEXT STOP 100 days BÉBÉS then FOREVA!!! I know it’s only the start but I wanna celebrate this because this journey has made me so happy and I feel like I’ve literally found myself again a bit
Hi all! With this tweet I think I just wanted to express enthusiasm about having more communal spaces in academia-I've just started my career, excited to make new friends & colleagues, & loved the shared space I had during my PhD. Totally understand this wouldn't work for others
My
@unibirmingham
staff profile is now up with details of my current and past research, and teaching - I’ll be based in the Ashley building on
@unibirmingham
campus so get in touch or come say hi! Really excited to meet and work with my new colleagues!
Just finishing off the proofs for my article “Forms of Freedoms: Marie Darrieussecq, Catherine Malabou, and the pasticity of science” which will of course, like everything I ever write, be so proudly dedicated to my unstoppable mom, Rosie Dalton ❤️❤️❤️
realise how gross it is to talk about work on weekend, but just trying to dust off a few things before strikezz tomorrow and wanted to mark the occasion: sent off my book proposal! Please goddesses of publishing shine down this day 😬😬😬
#Malabou
#plasiticty
#bookproposal
omg thrilled to announce that I just won a barbecue in a competition I entered on the back of a packet of tender stem broccoli?!?! Is this the American dream? I'm actually crying
in my isolat-hun covid xmas this year, I am channeling the words of our lordess and saviour Carrie Bradshaw when she teaches us: “The most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself.” Merry holidays angels ❤️❤️❤️ ad astra 🚀🌟🪐
baby’s first graduation as staff rather than student!! Loved being there to see everyone graduate yesterday from
@LCAHM_UoB
and seeing the indomitable Modern Languages graduates celebrate their fantastic achievements!! 🥲soooooooo many congratulations everyone!!! ☀️✨🚀🪐
Really over the moon (& ofc a bit terrified as always!) that my
@FranceModern
article is out now: "Queer, plastic residues: biological mutability and queer resistance in Robin Campillo's 120 BPM (2017) and the work of Catherine Malabou". Out OA here:
finished off final bits of undergrad teaching today at
@unibirmingham
- absolutely exhausted and covered head to toe in beard dandruff but this term has been another total adventure and so fantastic to work with such indomitable students who brought it to every seminarrr
leaving Paris tomorrow morning after two beautiful, intense, transformative years in this flat and I am leaving the window wide open to welcome in the winds of change 🌬🌬🌬 and also snot crying everywhere
My article “The Plastic Hospital: Catherine Malabou’s Architectural Therapeutics” is now published in a special issue of Essays in French Literature and Culture on “The Critical Medical Humanities” - so excited to be part of this!
#CatherineMalabou
#MedicalHumanities
#plasticity
Just came home and there was a small boy sat on the steps to our building and I said « bonjour » and he stood up and literally screamed « BONJOUR MONSIEUR!! BON ANNIVERSAIRE, JOYEUX NOEL, JOYEUSES PAQUES ET BONNES VACANCES!!!!!» and it was the most energising greeting of my life
My Grandma—Margaret Werry—at the age of 87 journeyed on today into worlds beyond our own, and I just wanted to shout here into the ether what a powerhouse and a force this woman was, and how full to bursting I am with pride and love and awe and wonder for her and always will be
today I finally went with my heart and invested in my dream monoprix matt-finish shopping cady and I feel it already, it is the beginning of a new era 🛒🗼
My new article is out in
@nfs_journal
: "Jean-Luc Nancy and the Hospital: Imagining Clinical Environments of Strangeness and Multiplicity". This explores how Nancy's philosophical account of his heart transplant allows us to re-imagine clinical space.
today I booked my
#Eurostar
to Paris, then watched the Friends episode where Rachel embalks on a new life in Paris, and cried in pride and ignored that she just turns around to stay with ross, and now I’m ready to move to the big city to be a star aka lecteur at
@UParisNanterre
I’ve just moved out of my London room to move to Paris in search Fame and Fortune as a lecteur. thought this would be just another move, but in fact I have wept loud wale tears realizing that these 5 years in London have probably been the most intensely transformative of my life
not sure this is worthy of a tweet but I just thought it couldn’t go uncelebrated just how much this ginger looks like a lobster? 🦞 Hope everyone’s ok!! ❤️
Proofs are here for my new article “Jean-Luc Nancy and the Hospital: Imagining Clinical Environments of Strangeness and Multiplicity”, coming out in Nottingham French Studies later this year! 🏥🩺🩻Thanks so much to the editors of this Special Issue
@DrHannahScott
@jrillingworth
!
Proofs are in for my new article “Plasticity and Formlessness between Malabou and Bataille” - forthcoming in MLN issue 137 soon! This is a special issue called “L’art de Malabou” on the question of art in Malabou’s work
#plasticity
#CatherineMalabou
#GeorgesBataille
#formless
Back to teaching on the MRes in Sexuality and Gender Studies at
@unibirmingham
today! I tried out my new seminar for the Sexuality, Gender and Representation module on "Queer Medicine" - discussions from Foucault's clinic to Paul B. Preciado's pharmacopornographic healthcare 🏥
Gave the first lecture today for my new
@DeLCLancaster
@LancasterUni
module “Thinking Queerness: LGBTQIA+ lives, identities and politics in contemporary thought and cultural production”!
Just had the good news that my article "Queer, Plastic Residues: Biological Mutability and Queer Resistance in Robin Campillo's 120 BPM (2017) and the Work of Catherine Malabou" is now forthcoming in the Special Issue of
@FranceModern
ed by
@alpember
and me on Campillo's 120 BPM
My interview with Catherine Malabou is now out in Paragraph! Was such an honour and a joy to get the chance to do this! The discussion centres around the question: 'What Should We Do With Plasticity?'
#Plasticity
#CatherineMalabou
#Philosophy
Fantastic to see the latest Special Issue of
@FranceModern
out in print, co-edited by
@alpember
and me! It's on "Robin Campillo's 120 Battements par minute (2017): Screening AIDS, Activism and Queer Identity in Contemporary France"! ☀️🏳️🌈
#120BPM
#queeractivism
#queercinema
and just like that… self-isolating since positive LF a few days ago & PCR has now confirmed that it’s gunna be just me this Christmas! Very lucky to say that symptoms are mild. Plz send recommendations for Netflix, essential oils, and any Henry Cavill imagery. stay safe all ❤️❤️
I was honoured today to give the keynote for the
@french_studies
PG conference “Surroundings”! Had an amazing day learning about so many fantastic research projects. Huge congratulations to the indomitable organisers
@ellywltrs
& David Ewing on such a great conference!
#SFSPG2023
It is such a delight, honour, and privilege to hear now from
@BenBGDalton
@DeLCLancaster
, our illustrious keynote speaker, whose lecture is titled ‘Rebuilding the Hospital with Jean-Luc Nancy: Approaches to Clinical Environments through Contemporary French Philosophy’
This year— in my research on philosophy, the hospital, and healthcare design— I’ve been writing about illness, healthcare and hospital environments in the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. I’m now turning to the work of Paul B. Preciado, asking: what would the queer hospital look like?
Really excited to be speaking at this fantastic event organised by
@LancasterFASS
FASS Health Research Hub. I'll be talking about the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, his experience of heart transplant, & what this means for hospital architecture. Sign up here:
Remembering mom today - Rosie Dalton: the cosmic energy who would ring up a restaurant to book a table and get the giggles so much for no reason noone could understand her on the other end & who made me a cow from a box with a washing up glove udder that you could actually milk
just submitted my final proofs corrections for my article « The Plastic Hospital: Catherine Malabou’s Architectural Therapeutics » - looking forward to seeing this published in a French Studies Med Hums special issue of Essays in French Literature and Culture later this year!
Back to research and writing today! writing a new article on Malabou, plasticity and the illness narrative… Bringing Malabou into dialogue with Arthur Frank, Sinéad Gleeson, Anne Boyer, and others
#MedHums
#CatherineMalabou
#illnessnarratives
Baby’s first keynote! Excited to deliver my keynote: “Listening to the neuro-plastic body in the work of Catherine Malabou: Witnessing bodily transformation” at the Politic Bodies conference
@HumanitiesUw
in on 4th May
#Malabou
#plasticity
#neuroplasticity
Political Bodies: the Silent & Voiceless is delighted to announce that our keynote speaker will be Dr Benjamin Dalton from University of Birmingham. We look forward to welcoming
@BenBGDalton
on 4th May in Worcester.
#AcademicTwitter
#MedHums
#EnviroHums
This afternoon I was at Lancaster Castle for
@LancasterUni
’s Bright Club workshop: teaching academics how to communicate their research via stand-up comedy. I went to try this out as doing stand up is pretty much all my worst nightmares rolled into one 😬😬😬
Having so much fun in Bristol at
@hospital_senses
conference! Bristol is GORGEOUS, and the conf has been so full of exciting workshops (did a dance one yesterday!) and papers. Just presented my paper "Sensing 'the great outdoors' through hospital architecture"!
#healthcaresenses
Really excited to be speaking on a panel alongside Catherine Malabou and Ben Tyrer on the subject of "Film, Plasticity, Epigenesis" at Film-Philosophy 2021!
this morning I’m on my way to the BnF to read some dusteh old books and I’m munchin a chausson aux pommes and an accordion is blaring in my ear as the light from the Seine sparkles in my eyes and I feel like I’m inside Lillian’s bridal shower from Bridesmaids
This thesis is dedicated with all my heart and my soul to my mom Rosie Dalton, who was embarking at the time on what she described as a profound metamorphosis. She taught me never to be scared of transformation, and every word is inspired and energised by her love and her wonder
It's that time again! Today we are introducing another member of our Editorial Board
@BenBGDalton
Ben is a research fellow in French at Birmingham and his research interests include contemporary French thought, literature & film and medical humanities.
@asmcf
@Rout_PoliticsIR
Happy pride angels!!!! Love from your friendly brazen neighbourhood queers 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
#gayparis
#lgbtqia
#Pride2021
currently in the process of applying for Junior Research Fellowships and I haven't been this same mixture of morbidly hopeful and totally despairing since I sent my photos and letter off to Newsround in the hope of playing Ron in the Harry Potter movies when I was 9
#phdchat
My lecture for “Contemporary Representations of the Body” today was on philosophical and artistic approaches to animal bodies, plant bodies, and bodies within environments and ecosystems more broadly. Thought about queer ecologies, becoming-animals, & lots of slow clips of goats
Today, in pure thesis panic, I drove myself to the nearest Spar and purchased two family sized bars of Dairy Milk and a copy of Men’s Health magazine as if these items would directly cancel each other out
#phdlife
#chocsicmasculinity
I went on a date to Paris zoo a couple of weeks ago, and the main attraction was a slime mould called “le blob” that lived in an enclosure called “le blobzone” - how lovely is that?
Welcome Week has begun at
@LancasterUni
and there’s a great atmosphere on campus. Welcome to all new and returning students! One week to go before teaching starts in
@DeLCLancaster
for 2023/24 - I’m feeling excited to get started 🚀🪐🌒✨
In Paris, everyone’s cheering from their balconies, banging pots and pans together in support of the doctors !!! I’m not crying you’re crying😍😭😍😭😍😭😍
#COVID19
#francelockdown
and now for my final insufferable selfie of
#SFSBelfast2022
- I had so much fun, thank you
@french_studies
and
@ModLangs_QUB
! ❤️ the couple behind me on this plane got engaged somewhere in thick cloud above Birmingham with a ring hidden in an earplug case ✈️💍
Excited to have my article « Animating Plastic in the Toy Story Films » out on
@fananimresearch
! This looks at how plasticity and synthetic plastics are animated in the Toy Story films, bringing together Malabou and Pixar
#plasticity
#CatherineMalabou
Lectured on (neuro)plasticity, Catherine Malabou and performance/ body art today
@unibirmingham
@LCAHM_UoB
- loved exploring the ideas of
@KatieSchaag
on how we can explore/express biological processes in performance, « autobiology », and listening to our (neuroplastic) guts!
Yesterday was my first day teaching English to the mechanical and aeronautical engineering masters students at Nanterre, and when I arrived at the faculty where was a group of engineers stood around a piano playing “My Favourite Things” from Sound of Music - how gorgeous is that?
moving to Birmingham, King’s Heath over the next two weeks - I’m so excited!!! Already joined
@KingsHeathRC
snd sorted my landline (?!?) out (I’m an 0121 angel now) - let me know your tips for King’s Heath area and if you live around here let’s be friends!!
Extremely excited to be organising the PGR/ECR online seminar series "Contemporary Women's Writing and the Medical Humanities" with
@rhrosenberg
at
@IMLR_News
as part of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing- Here's our Call For Papers!
Just received the latest issue of MLN on “L’art de Malabou”, ed. by Hannes Opelz, bringing together work on Malabou and art, including writing by Malabou and Jean-Luc Nancy. Honoured to be part of this with my article: “Plasticity and Formlessness between Malabou and Bataille”
My final lecture for Contemporary Representations of the Body today was on “Caring for the Body: Re-imagining hospitals, clinical spaces and modes of care” - including some active research I’m putting together on how French philosophy can transform or redesign clinical spaces
Fantastic to see
@alpember
and my Special Issue of
@FranceModern
out in full online! "Robin Campillo's 120 Battements par minute (2017): Screening AIDS, Activism and Queer Identity in Contemporary France"- thanks so much to all our amazing contributors
#120BPM
#HIVAIDS
#activism
to the indomitable and eternal universe-force that is
@alpember
and whose idea it was to do
#120bpmsymposium
@120BPMSymposium
: this has been so unforgettable working with you and I cannot wait for a life of future adventures together 🏳️🌈 ❤️
Building on our
#Womenmedhums2020
seminar series,
@rhrosenberg
and I are organising a 3-day online international conference in July 2020: "Contemporary Womxn's Writing and the Medical Humanities: 2021 Conference". Here's the CfP!
#cfp
#medhums
@IMLR_News