Véronique carries out research in three main areas: North American and European modern literatures, translation theory, and medical humanities.
Recent publications include two journal special issues she has edited on literary genealogies and translation for L'Esprit Créateur (Johns Hopkins, 2018) and Translation and Literature (Edinburgh UP, 2020).
She has also edited the first book on "literary back-translation", in collaboration with scholars, translators, poets and architects (from the US to the UK, France, Italy, Turkey, and China). Her own contributions in the book include a substantial introduction theorizing literary back-translation and delineating its poetic, ethical, and philosophical implications, as well as a double chapter, "Theorizing Back-Translation: From Antoine Berman on Retranslation to the Three Layers of The Monk" (Edinburgh UP; in press).
Her second monograph, Literary Translation and Mental health, offers a comparative analysis of the translation processes of seven modernist writers-translators who experienced mental health illness - Friedrich Hölderlin, Gérard de Nerval, Virginia Woolf, Marcel Proust, T.S. Eliot, Hilda Doolittle, and Antonin Artaud - and theorizes translation as a powerful form of introspection impacting identity formation and cognition.
Her current research project investigates the therapeutic value of the translation process for NHS patients on the autism-schizophrenia spectrum.
Medical Humanities, Translation theory and practice, Modern French literature and drama, Modernism, French Critical Thought, Narratives of illness, Care.
I have been teaching compparative literature and medical humanities at Lancaster University since 2017.
Prior to my current post, I have been Visiting Assistant Professor at Wesleyan University in the US, and Postdoctoral Research Fellow funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
At Lancaster, I teach literature and mental health at UG and PG level, I supervise MA and PhD students in these areas, and am an active member of the Health Hub. I also serve as Dissertations Convenor for the School of Global Affairs and as Lead Reviewer for the Faculty Research Ethics Committee.
As part of my engagement activities, I am chairing bi-weekly support sessions for caregivers of people living with schizophrenia in partnership with the Schizophrenia & Psychosis Action Alliance (S&PAA).
I have edited and contributed to the very first book theorizing "literary back-translation", with colaborators from the US to the UK, France, Italy, Turkey and China (Edinburgh University Press; in press). I am also the creator and admin of the website Literary Back-Translation: if you know a literary back-translation which isn't in the online catalogue, please get in touch through the contact form! All contributions are gratefuly acknowledged on the website.
At the intersection of Medical Humanities and Translation Studies, my current research activities include workshops designed with mental health practicioners to improve the cognition of patients living with schizophrenia, as well as the S&PAA support sessions I'm leading for caregivers, and the publication of my second monograph, Literary Translation and Mental Health (also forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press).
2012-14: Postdoctoral Fellowship, awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC, $80,000)
FREN101: The Great War and The Avant-Gardes
FREN101: French oral seminars
FREN301: Translation (French into English)
DELC320: Final Year Dissertation (convenor)
DELC349: Modernism and Mental Health
DELC416: MA in Translation Methods and Theory
DELC420: MA Translation Project
I convene the undergraduate final-year dissertation module, and have supervised several MA dissertations and translation projects.
I am currently co-supervising three PhD theses, on translation and the phenomenology of reading, on translation in video games, and on AI translation and mental health.
