Emmanuelle Lacore-Martin

Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies, Deputy Head of the Department of European Languages and Cultures

Biography

Background

Dr Emmanuelle Lacore-Martin is a Senior Lecturer in French Studies and Deputy Head of the Department of European Languages and Cultures.

She specialises in Renaissance literature and thought and the evolution of literary forms in the early modern period in relation to ancient Greek and Latin sources and models. She is the author of Figures de l’Histoire et du Temps dans l’Œuvre de Rabelais (Droz, 2011) and has published more widely on the links between early modern historiography, politics and culture. Her recent research concentrates on medical humanities and natural philosophy, exploring parallels in the representation of the body and soul relationship in literary and anatomical works of the period.

 

Current Teaching interests

  • Love and Melancholy in early modern France (Final-Year Option)
  • New Worlds: Anatomy, travel and self-discovery in early modern French literature
  • Anatomy of the Soul: ancient sources of the representation of the soul in early modern natural philosophy
  • Frankétienne: Politics, Poetry and Film (Une étrange cathédrale dans la graisse des ténèbres)
  • French syntax from a comparative perspective
  • Online and blended approaches to language teaching and learning

Postgraduate teaching

  • Medical humanities; anatomy and literature in Renaissance literature (MSc in Comparative literature: Theories and Methods of Literary Study I) (2017-18)

Areas of interest for supervision

Postgraduate research proposals are welcome on early modern French literature and culture, and particularly on the inter-relation between medical, philosophical and literary texts in the Renaissance period. Dr Lacore-Martin is particularly interested in tracing the ancient sources of early modern representations of emotions and the body and soul relationship.

Qualifications

Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm, Paris)

MSc in Comparative Literature (Sorbonne)

Agrégation de Lettres modernes

PhD in French Renaissance Literature (Rabelais) (Sorbonne Nouvelle)

Qualification (CNU, France)

Responsibilities & affiliations

Deputy Head of DELC (Jan 2022 - present)

External examiner, University of Strathclyde (current)

 

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

Yes

Past PhD students supervised

M. BOHARSKI, Clothwork and the Representation of Feminine Expression and Identity in Old French Romance (second supervisor)

Past project grants

In 2017 Dr Emmanuelle Lacore-Martin was awarded a RIG from the Carnegie Trust for a project on the representation of Mary Queen of Scots in her writings and in political texts and pamphlets at the time ('Mary Queen of Scots in her own words, and in others' ') which resulted in a recently published article: 'De la forme littéraire comme arme politique: l'effet-recueil dans la version française de la Detectio de Georges Buchanan', Renaissance and Reformation, Toronto, Canada; Vol.44 N.1 (2021).  https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/renref/article/view/37044

Invited speaker

Verona, Colloque organised by the Gruppo di Studio sul Cinquecento Francese, Les frères Du Bellay et l’Europe. Politique et culture à la Renaissance, Vérone, Palazzo Pompei, Museo di Storia naturale,  May 2022. Title : « Ne pas parler d’histoire "comme clerc d’armes" : la tâche de l’historien au prisme des épîtres et préfaces de Guillaume, Martin et René Du Bellay »

 

Université de Rouen, Normandie, France, Conference organised by Prof. Xavier Bonnier, "Le Détour du comparant" , 16-18 June 2022. Title: 

"Le rete mirabile et la fabrique de l'âme: la métaphore du filet de pêcheur dans la pensée de la liaison entre l'âme et le corps, de Galien à Raymond de Vieussens"

 

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