Dr Áine Larkin
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Biography
I joined Maynooth University as Lecturer in French in January 2022, after ten happy years at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Drawing on my doctoral research, my monograph Proust Writing Photography was published by Legenda in 2011. In October 2021, a special issue of Essays in French Literature and Culture that I co-edited with Enda McCaffrey was published, on the Critical Medical Humanities. In summer 2019, I was granted British Academy/Leverhulme research funding to support a project on women in the nineteenth-century George Washington Wilson photographic collection, housed at the University of Aberdeen library. An online symposium as part of that project will take place on 1 June 2022. My research interests include Proust studies, critical disability studies, and text/image relations. In July 2019, a special issue of Forum for Modern Language Studies that I edited was published, on the topic of Dance in modern and contemporary French culture. I have contributed chapters to a number of books and journal special issues, including Marcel Proust in Context (ed. Adam Watt, Cambridge University Press, 2014); Cent ans de jalousie proustienne (eds. Erika Fülöp and Philippe Chardin, Classiques Garnier,
2015); La ligne d’écume: Encountering the French Beach (eds. Sophie Fuggle and Nicholas Gledhill, Pavement Books,
2016); ‘French Autopathography’, L’Esprit Créateur (ed. Steven Wilson, 2016); Fashion, Modernity, and Materiality in France: From Rousseau to Art Deco (ed. Heidi Brevik-Zender, State University of New York Press, 2018). With
Claire Launchbury, I co-edited and contributed to a special issue of Romance Studies on Proust and music
(2014). A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin (BA (Hons) 2000 and PhD 2007) and the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III (DEA 2001), in 2008 I was awarded a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Research Interests
Book Chapter
Peer Reviewed Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2021 | Áine Larkin (2021) 'Living with Dying in France: Contemporary French Writing about End-of-Life Care'. Esprit Createur, . [Full-Text] | |
2021 | Áine Larkin (2021) 'Philippe Vigand on Disability, Masculinity, and Ecology'. ESSAYS IN FRENCH LITERATURE, . [Full-Text] | |
2021 | Áine Larkin and Enda McCaffrey (2021) 'French Critical Medical Humanities'. ESSAYS IN FRENCH LITERATURE, (58). [Full-Text] | |
2019 | Áine Larkin (2019) 'Intermedialities: Dance in Modern and Contemporary French Culture'. Forum for Modern Language Studies, . | |
2016 | Áine Larkin (2016) 'Dependence and Masculinity in Contemporary French Writing about Disability'. Esprit Createur, . | |
2014 | Áine Larkin (2014) 'Albertine and Other Performers: Aesthetic Agency, Love, and Jealousy in Proust’s 'À la recherche du temps perdu''. Romance Studies, . | |
2014 | Áine Larkin and Claire Launchbury (2014) 'Unsettling Scores: Proust and Music'. Romance Studies, . | |
2008 | Áine Larkin (2008) 'Images of the Invisible: Composite Photography as a Model for Perception and Memory Processes in Proust’s 'À la recherche du temps perdu’'. Irish Journal of French Studies, . |
Professional Associations
Honors and Awards
Employment
Outreach Activities
Organisation | Type | Description | |
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British Academy/Leverhulme | Civic Society | 'Envisioning Women's Places in the Nineteenth Century: The George Washington Wilson Photographic Enterprise' [Link] | |
University of Aberdeen | Civic Society | ‘Ghosts on Glass’, public lecture on the history of photography, Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen, April 2012 | |
GWW Centre for Visual Culture, University of Aberdeen | Civic Society | GWW Centre for Visual Culture directorship: organising events open to members of the public (2015- ) [Link] | |
University of Aberdeen WayWORD Festival | Civic Society | Panel chair for a panel on neurodiversity and creativity, May 2021 | |
University of Aberdeen May Festival | Civic Society | Co-Organiser of the ‘Material City’ photo project, as part of the May Festival, University of Aberdeen, May 2014 and May 2015 |