
Thomas Constantinesco
- Voix Anglophones : Littérature et Esthétique (VALE)
- Sorbonne Université (SU)
Présentation
Thomas CONSTANTINESCO
Professor of American Literature
Department of English
Sorbonne Université
1, rue Victor Cousin
75005 Paris
France
thomas.constantinesco@sorbonne-universite.fr
EDUCATION
H.D.R. (Habilitation à diriger des recherches), Université de Paris, 2019.
Ph.D. English, Université Paris Diderot, 2009.
M.A. English, Université Paris Diderot, 2005.
Agrégation, English, 2003 (admitted rank 24/158).
B.A. English, Université Paris Sorbonne, 2002.
Student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, 2000-2007 (admitted rank 4/25).
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Sorbonne Université
Professor, tenured, English Department, 2021-present.
Selected courses taught:
o Undergraduate Courses: American Fiction: Literature and History (Twain).
o Graduate Seminars: Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Health and the Body (Writing Pain: Emerson, Melville, Douglass, Jacobs, Dickinson, James, Phelps; Literature and Contagion: Brockden Brown, Hawthorne, Alcott, Spofford, London, Lovecraft; Plotting Disability: Melville, W. and H. Craft, James, Twain, Wharton); Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs; Literary translation.
Université Paris Diderot
Associate Professor, tenured, English Department, 2010-2021
Teaching Assistant, English Department, 2007-2010.
Selected courses taught:
o Undergraduate Courses: History of American Literature, 1620-1989 (Survey Course); Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Classics (Hawthorne, Twain, Faulkner, Cather, O’Connor, Salinger, Wideman); American Tales and Short Stories (Irving, Hawthorne, James, Faulkner); Introduction to Literary Translation
o Graduate Seminars: English and American Romanticism (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville); Romanticism, Revolution, Terror (Crèvecoeur, Irving, Cooper, Hawthorne); Why Read Nineteenth-Century American Literature Today? (Dickinson, Whitman, Melville, Thoreau, Twain, Henry and Alice James); The Poetics of Literary Translation; Translating Non-Fiction; History of Translation Theory.
University of Oxford
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, English Faculty, 2019-2021.
Courses taught: graduate seminar, “Bodies in Pain and Suffering Minds in Nineteenth-Century American Literature” (2019-2020).
Keble College and Magdalen College, 2003-2005.
Teaching Assistant, French.
Courses taught: Translation, Conversation, Academic Writing, Reading the French press.
Yale University, French Department, 2001-2002.
Teaching Assistant.
Courses taught: Language, Conversation, French contemporary Literature and Culture.
FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, English Faculty, University of Oxford, 2019-2021. €195,000.
Research Project Title: “USPAIN: Suffering America: Writing Pain in Nineteenth-Century United States Literature”: https://uspain.hypotheses.org/.
Visiting Fellow, Oriel College, University of Oxford, January-July 2017 and October 2019-October 2020.
Junior Fellow, Institut Universitaire de France, 2014-2019. €75,000.
Research project title: “Thinking as Writing: American Literature and Philosophy, 1830-1916.”
PUBLICATIONS
Monographs
Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, “Oxford Studies in American Literary History,” 2022. Reviewed in Textual Practice.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: l’Amérique à l’essai. Éditions Rue d’Ulm (2012).
Nominated for the AFEA/SAES Best Book Award (Prix de la recherche) for 2012. Reviewed in Emerson Society Papers; Études anglaises; RFEA; Transatlantica.
Edited Collections
Herman Melville, The Confidence-Man : His Masquerade. Les fictions de la confiance / Fictions of confidence, ed. with Agnès Derail and Anne-Claire Le Reste. Paris: Presses universitaires de Nanterre, 2020.
Romanticism and Philosophy: Thinking with Literature, ed. with Sophie Laniel-Musitelli. New York: Routledge, 2015.
Reviewed in Romantic Circles; The Byron Journal; BAARS Review.
Romanticism and the Philosophical Tradition, ed. with Sophie Laniel-Musitelli. Nancy: Presses universitaires de Nancy, 2015.
Littérature et politique en Nouvelle-Angleterre, ed. with Antoine Traisnel. Paris: Éditions Rue d’Ulm, 2011.
Journal Issues
Guest editor, with Sari Altschuler, “Pain,” special issue of American Literature 93, no. 4, forthcoming in 2024.
Guest Editor, with Peter Lurie, “What Does Literature Feel Like?,” special issue oef Transatlantica, forthcoming in 2023.
Guest editor, with Cécile Roudeau, “Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Philosophical,” special issue of Textual Practice 33, no. 10 (2019).
Guest editor, with François Specq, “Relire le transcendantalisme / Whither Transcendentalism?,” special issue of the Revue française d’études américaines 140 (2014).
Journal Essays (Peer-Reviewed, since 2012)
“Columbia / New York : The Ruins of the Civil War,” special issue “War Ruins,” ed. Nathalie Cochoy and David Roche, Transatlantica, 2022/1: https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/18819.
“American Literary Criticism in a Time of Pandemic,” Forum “The Functions of American Literary Criticism at the Present Time,” ed. Russ Castronovo and Gordon Hutner, American Literary History 34, no. 1 (2022), p. 67-76.
“‘I must calculate over again’: Measures of Pain in Melville,” special issue “Rescaling Melville,” ed. Ronan Ludot-Vlasak, Édouard Marsoin and Cécile Roudeau, Textual Practice, vol. 35, n°11, 2021, p. 1733-1749.
“The Matter with Milly Theale: The Logics of Consumption,” The Wings of the Dove*: de l’œuvre au texte*, Christian Gutleben (ed.), Cycnos 36, no. 1 (2020).
“Henry James across Borders,” Henry James Traveller. Parables of Perception, Richard Anker, Marie-Odile Salati, Sheila Teehan (eds.), special issue of Viatica (2020): http://revues-msh.uca.fr/viatica/index.php?id=1172.
“The Dial and the Untimely ‘Spirit of the Time,’” American Periodicals 28, no. 1 (April 2018): 21-40.
“Living for the Dead in Henry James’s ‘Maud-Evelyn,’” Caliban: A French Journal of English Studies 56 (2016): 41-54.
“L’autobiographie ou l’art de la vie dans A Small Boy and Others de Henry James,“ co-authored with Agnès Derail-Imbert, Transatlantica 2015.2: https://transatlantica.revues.org/7687
“Limning New Regions of Thought: Emerson’s Abstract Regionalism,” co-authored with Cécile Roudeau. ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 60, no. 2 (2014): 287-328.
“Emerson et William James, ou les vertus de la croyance,” special issue of the RFEA, Transferts du religieux, ed. Richard Anker and Nathalie Caron 141 (September 2014): 56-68.
“Edgar Allan Poe et les meubles de la philosophie,” Transatlantica, 2013, no. 2: http://transatlantica.revues.org/6370.
“Mimésis et Politique dans Representative Men de R. W. Emerson,” RFEA 135 (March 2013): 12-26.
“Emerson, ou le génie de l’imitation,” Sillages critiques 14 (2012): http://sillagescritiques.revues.org/2809.
Book Chapters (Peer-Reviewed, since 2012)
“Reading Bodies and Textual Materialities,” Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Body, ed. Travis Foster, Cambridge University Press, 2022, 150-164.
“Romanticism and European Philosophy, or ‘Idealism as It Appears in 1842,’” Handbook of American Romanticism, Philipp Löffler, Clemens Spahr, and Jan Stievermann (ed.), De Gruyter, 2021, 119-139.
“The Circulation of Things in ‘Maud-Evelyn,’” Henry James in the Twenty-First Century: Heritage and Transmission, Adrian Harding and Dennis Tredy (ed.), Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019, 307-316.
“The Ghost of Literature: The Return of the Text in American Literary Studies,” Mapping Fields of Study: The Cultural and Institutional Space of English Studies, Richard Somerset and Matthew Smith (ed.), Presses universitaires de Nancy, 2019, 287-310.
“Lessons of Duplicity in ‘The Lesson of the Master’,” Henry James and the Poetics of Duplicity in ed. Annick Duperray, Adrian Harding and Dennis Tredy, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, 39-48.
“Fictions de l’expérience dans ‘Experience’ de R. W. Emerson,” L’expérience, ed. Olivier Brossard, Françoise Bort and Wendy Ribeyrol, Michel Houdiard, 2012, 93-113.
Translations
American Literature
Puritains d’Amérique: prestige et déclin d’une théocratie. Textes choisis, 1620-1750, trans. and ed. Agnès Derail-Imbert and Bruno Monfort, with Laurent Folliot, Thomas Constantinesco, and Cécile Roudeau, Éditions Rue d’Ulm, 2016. Anthology of texts from the Colonial era (1620-1750) in translation, with introductions, biographical sketches and notes.
Mark Twain, Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer, Œuvres, ed. Philippe Jaworski Gallimard, “Bibliothèque de la Pléiade,” 2015. Translation of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, with introduction and notes.
Henry James, Écrits sur la peinture, ed. and trans. Thomas Constantinesco, with Marion Beaujard, Hélène Blassel and Camille Joseph, Fage, 2014. Translation of 15 essays on art and painting.
Washington Irving, Les Déterreurs de trésors, trans. and ed. with Bruno Monfort, Éditions Rue d’Ulm, 2014. Translation and edition of “The Money-Diggers.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, L’Amitié, Aux forges de Vulcain, 2010. Translation of “Friendship” (1841), with an introduction.
Herman Melville, Derniers poèmes, ed. Agnès Derail-Imbert and Bruno Monfort, with Thomas Constantinesco, Marc Midan and Cécile Roudeau Éditions Rue d’Ulm, 2010. Translation and edition of “Minor Sea-Pieces” (John Marr and Other Sailors) and “Fruit of Travel Long Ago” (Timoleon).
Literary Criticism
Richard Scholar, Montaigne libre penseur, Paris, Hermann, 2015. Translation of Montaigne and the Art of Free-Thinking, Oxford, Peter Lang, 2010.
Richard Scholar, Le Je-ne-sais-quoi : enquête sur une énigme, Paris, puf, « Les Littéraires », 2010. Translation of The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi in Early Modern Europe: Encounters with a Certain Something, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005.
History
Kevin Moore, Jacques Henri Lartigue, l’invention d’un artiste, Paris, Textuel, « L’écriture photographique », 2012. Translation of Jacques Henri Lartigue: The Invention of an Artist, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2004.
Reviews
“Antoine Traisnel, Capture : American Pursuits and the Making of the New Animal Condition,” Études anglaises, forthcoming.
“Michael D. Snediker, Contingent Figure: Chronic Pain and Queer Embodiment,” American Literary History 34.3 (2022): 1229–1232, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajac123.
“Delphine Rumeau, Fortunes de Walt Whitman : Enjeux d’une réception transatlantique,” IdeAs 16 (September 2020), https://journals.openedition.org/ideas/9911.
“Marianne Noble, Rethinking Sympathy and Human Contact in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Hawthorne, Douglass, Stowe, Dickinson,” Transatlantica, 2018, no. 2, https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/13261.
“Joseph Urbas, Emerson’s Metaphysics: A Song of Laws and Causes,” Emerson Society Papers 28.1 (Spring 2018): 9.
“Frédéric Dumas, Mark Twain: tourisme et vanité,” Études anglaises 69.4 (2016): 496-497.
“Henry James, The Europeans, ed. Susan M. Griffin,” Études anglaises 69.2 (2016): 237-240.
“Samantha C. Harvey, Transatlantic Transcendentalism: Coleridge, Emerson, and Nature,” Transatlantica, 2015, no. 2, https://transatlantica.revues.org/7962.
“Jed Deppman, Marianne Noble, and Gary Lee Stonum, eds., Emily Dickinson and Philosophy,” Transatlantica, 2014, no. 2: http://transatlantica.revues.org/7226.
“Rivett, Sarah, The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England,” Transatlantica 2013, no. 2: http://transatlantica.revues.org/6589.
Publications
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Reading Bodies and Textual MaterialitiesTravis Foster. The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Body, , 2022, 9781108815291
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Romanticism and European Philosophy, or “Idealism As It Appears in 1842”Philipp Löffler; Clemens Spahr; Jan Stievermann. Handbook of American Romanticism, De Gruyter, 2021, 978-3-11-059075-3
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The Ghost of Literature: The Return of the Text in American Literary StudiesRichard Somerset; Matthew SMith. Mapping Fields of Study: The Cultural and Institutional Space of English Studies, Presses universitaires de Nancy, 2019
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Introduction - Thinking with LiteratureSophie Laniel-Musitelli; Thomas Constantinesco. Romanticism and Philosophy : Thinking with Literature, Routledge, pp. 1-15, 2015, 978-1-138-80550-7
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Foreword : Romanticism across BordersRomanticism and the Philosophical Tradition, Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 2015, 978-2-8143-0231-0
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Lessons of Duplicity in " The Lesson of the MasterDennis Tredy, Annick Duperray and Adrian Harding. Henry James and the Poetics of Duplicity, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.39-48, 2013, 978-144384417
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Mark Twain, Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer, traduction, notice et notes, in Œuvres, Philippe Jaworski (dir.), Paris, Gallimard, « Bibliothèque de la Pléiade », 20152015
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Washington Irving, Les Déterreurs de trésors2014
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Henry James, Écrits sur la peinture2014
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Herman Melville, Derniers poèmes2010
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Melville's Political EnergiesLeviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, 26 (3), 2024
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PainAmerican Literature, 96 (2), 2024
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What Does Literature Feel Like?Transatlantica. Revue d'études américaines/American Studies Journal, 2, 2023, ⟨10.4000/transatlantica.21205⟩
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Ninetenth-Century American Literature and the PhilosophicalTextual Practice, 33 (10), 2019
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