Thomas Constantinesco

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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

Publications

Bodymind Pains and Metabolic Conditions

Thomas Constantinesco
American Literary History, 2024, 36 (4), pp.1089-1099. ⟨10.1093/alh/ajae115⟩
Article dans une revue hal-04822660 v1

Introduction: The Terms of the Political

Thomas Constantinesco , Ronan Ludot-Vlasak , Édouard Marsoin
Leviathan, 2024, 26 (3), pp.3-8. ⟨10.1353/lvn.2024.a944381⟩
Article dans une revue hal-04822671 v1

Pain after 2020, An Introduction

Sari Altschuler , Thomas Constantinesco
American Literature, 2024, 96 (2), pp.141-162. ⟨10.1215/00029831-11218858⟩
Article dans une revue halshs-04693889 v1

“Infamy in the Air”: Toxic Climate, Racial Atmospherics, and the Politics of Contagion in the Literature of the Nineteenth-Century United States

Thomas Constantinesco
Épistémocritique. Revue de littérature et savoirs, 2023, 21
Article dans une revue hal-04008915 v1
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Introduction: What Does American Literature Feel Like?

Thomas Constantinesco , Peter Lurie
Transatlantica. Revue d'études américaines/American Studies Journal, 2023, 2, ⟨10.4000/transatlantica.21418⟩
Article dans une revue hal-04343320 v1

Columbia / New York: The Ruins of the Civil War

Thomas Constantinesco
Transatlantica. Revue d'études américaines/American Studies Journal, 2022, 1, ⟨10.4000/transatlantica.18819⟩
Article dans une revue hal-03712774 v1
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“What Help from Thought?” : American Literary Criticism in a Time of Pandemic

Thomas Constantinesco
American Literary History, 2022, 34 (1), pp.67-76. ⟨10.1093/alh/ajab099⟩
Article dans une revue halshs-03614099 v1
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“I must calculate over again”: Measures of Pain in Melville

Thomas Constantinesco
Textual Practice, 2021, ⟨10.1080/0950236X.2021.1941525⟩
Article dans une revue hal-03255500 v1

Henry James across Borders

Thomas Constantinesco
Viatica, 2020, HS 3
Article dans une revue hal-02931117 v1

The Matter with Milly Theale: The Logics of Consumption (pp. 217-219)

Thomas Constantinesco
Cycnos, 2020, The wings of the dove de Henry James : de l'oeuvre au texte, 36 (1), pp.183-204
Article dans une revue hal-04146800 v1

The Matter with Milly Theale: The Logics of Consumption

Thomas Constantinesco
Cycnos, 2020, 36 (1)
Article dans une revue hal-03255487 v1
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The house of thought’: nineteenth-century American literature and the philosophical

Thomas Constantinesco , Cécile Roudeau
Textual Practice, 2019, 33 (10), pp.1649-1656. ⟨10.1080/0950236X.2019.1665911⟩
Article dans une revue hal-02931109 v1

The Dial and the Untimely “Spirit of the Time”

Thomas Constantinesco
American Periodicals, 2018, 28 (1), pp.21-40
Article dans une revue hal-02931098 v1
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Living for the Dead in Henry James's "Maud-Evelyn

Thomas Constantinesco
Anglophonia, French Journal of English Studies, 2016, 56, pp.41-54
Article dans une revue hal-01650002 v1
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L’autobiographie ou l’art de la vie dans A Small Boy and Others de Henry James

Thomas Constantinesco , Agnès Derail
Transatlantica. Revue d'études américaines/American Studies Journal, 2015
Article dans une revue hal-01378886 v1

« Transcendentalism Revisited », in Relire le transcendantalisme / Whither Transcendentalism ?, dir. Thomas Constantinesco et François Specq

Constantinesco Thomas , Specq François
Revue Française d'Etudes Américaines, 2014
Article dans une revue halshs-01997755 v1

Limning New Regions of Thought: Emerson’s Abstract Regionalism

Cécile Roudeau , Thomas Constantinesco
ESQ: a journal of the American Renaissance, 2014, 60 (2), pp.285-326. ⟨10.1353/esq.2014.0008⟩
Article dans une revue hal-01513340 v1
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Emerson et William James, ou les vertus de la croyance

Thomas Constantinesco
Revue Française d'Etudes Américaines, 2014, Transferts du religieux, 141, pp.56-68. ⟨10.3917/rfea.141.0056⟩
Article dans une revue hal-01378890 v1
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Mimésis et Politique dans Representative Men de R. W. Emerson

Thomas Constantinesco
Revue Française d'Etudes Américaines, 2013, 135, pp.12-26. ⟨10.3917/rfea.135.0012⟩
Article dans une revue hal-01378891 v1
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Edgar Allan Poe et les meubles de la philosophie

Thomas Constantinesco
Transatlantica. Revue d'études américaines/American Studies Journal, 2013
Article dans une revue hal-01378887 v1
Image document

Ralph Waldo Emerson, ou le génie de l’imitation

Thomas Constantinesco
Sillages Critiques, 2012, L'imitation, 14
Article dans une revue hal-01378888 v1

Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Thomas Constantinesco
Oxford University Press, 2022, Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States, 9780192855596
Ouvrages halshs-03614110 v1

Herman Melville, The Confidence-Man : His Masquerade. Les fictions de la confiance / Fictions of confidence

Thomas Constantinesco , Derail-Imbert Agnès , Anne-Claire Le Reste
2020, 978-2-84016-358-9
Ouvrages hal-02931100 v1

Puritains d'Amérique Prestige et déclin d'une théocratie - Textes choisis 1620-1750

Cécile Roudeau , Derail Agnès , Thomas Constantinesco , Bruno Monfort , Folliot Laurent
Presses de l'Ecole normale supérieure. , 2016, collection "Versions françaises", 978-2-7288-0558-7
Ouvrages hal-01513277 v1

Romanticism and Philosophy

Thomas Constantinesco , Sophie Laniel-Musitelli
Routledge, 2015, Routledge Studies in Romanticism, 9781138805507
Ouvrages hal-01378462 v1

Romanticism and the Philosophical Tradition

Thomas Constantinesco , Sophie Laniel-Musitelli
Presses universitaires de Nancy, 2015, Regards croisés sur le monde anglophone, 9782814302310
Ouvrages hal-01378474 v1

Relire le transcendantalisme / Whither Transcendentalism ? Revue Française d’Études Américaines n° 140. 128p

Constantinesco Thomas , François Specq (dir.)
2014
Ouvrages halshs-01997502 v1

Relire le Transcendentalisme / Whither Transcendentalism?

Thomas Constantinesco , François Specq
Belin, 140, 2014, Revue Française d'Etudes Américaines, 9782701191409 ⟨10.3917/rfea.140.0003⟩
Ouvrages hal-01378480 v1

Ralph Waldo Emerson. L'Amérique à l'essai

Thomas Constantinesco
Editions Rue d'Ulm, 2012, Offshore, Pierre-Yves Pétillon; Agnès Derail-Imbert, 978-2-7288-0473-3
Ouvrages hal-01378441 v1

Littérature et politique en Nouvelle-Angleterre

Thomas Constantinesco , Traisnel Antoine
Editions Rue d'Ulm, 7, 2011, Actes de la recherche à l'ENS, Lucie Marignac, 978-2-7288-3952-0
Ouvrages hal-01378454 v1

Melville. Derniers Poèmes.

Cécile Roudeau , Thomas Constantinesco , Bruno Monfort , Derail Agnès , Marc Midan
Presses de l'ENS, 2010, collection "Versions françaises", 978-2-7288-0432-0
Ouvrages hal-01513295 v1

Reading Bodies and Textual Materialities

Thomas Constantinesco
Travis Foster. The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Body, , 2022, 9781108815291
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-03712804 v1

Romanticism and European Philosophy, or “Idealism As It Appears in 1842”

Thomas Constantinesco
Philipp Löffler; Clemens Spahr; Jan Stievermann. Handbook of American Romanticism, De Gruyter, 2021, 978-3-11-059075-3
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-02931153 v1

The Ghost of Literature: The Return of the Text in American Literary Studies

Thomas Constantinesco
Richard Somerset; Matthew SMith. Mapping Fields of Study: The Cultural and Institutional Space of English Studies, Presses universitaires de Nancy, 2019
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-02931155 v1

Introduction - Thinking with Literature

Sophie Laniel-Musitelli , Thomas Constantinesco
Sophie Laniel-Musitelli; Thomas Constantinesco. Romanticism and Philosophy : Thinking with Literature, Routledge, pp. 1-15, 2015, 978-1-138-80550-7
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-01349494 v1
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Foreword : Romanticism across Borders

Thomas Constantinesco , Sophie Laniel-Musitelli
Romanticism and the Philosophical Tradition, Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 2015, 978-2-8143-0231-0
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-01349784 v1
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Lessons of Duplicity in " The Lesson of the Master

Thomas Constantinesco
Dennis Tredy, Annick Duperray and Adrian Harding. Henry James and the Poetics of Duplicity, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.39-48, 2013, 978-144384417
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-01378889 v1

Melville's Political Energies

Thomas Constantinesco , Ronan Ludot-Vlasak , Édouard Marsoin
Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, 26 (3), 2024
N°spécial de revue/special issue hal-04822689 v1

Pain

Thomas Constantinesco , Sari Altschuler
American Literature, 96 (2), 2024
N°spécial de revue/special issue halshs-04693887 v1

What Does Literature Feel Like?

Thomas Constantinesco , Peter Lurie
Transatlantica. Revue d'études américaines/American Studies Journal, 2, 2023, ⟨10.4000/transatlantica.21205⟩
N°spécial de revue/special issue hal-04343307 v1

Ninetenth-Century American Literature and the Philosophical

Thomas Constantinesco , Cécile Roudeau
Textual Practice, 33 (10), 2019
N°spécial de revue/special issue hal-02931157 v1