About Larca

Presentation

LARCA is an interdisciplinary research unit of Université Paris Cité and the CNRS whose members study the histories, literatures, arts and cultures of English-speaking countries and their links to the wider world. Drawing together literary scholars, political, social, and cultural historians, art historians, and specialists of photography, film, television, and emerging media, LARCA is a research laboratory that bridges the disciplines and mediates between academic cultures in France and the English-speaking world.

Associated to the Anglophone Studies Department at the Université Paris Cité, an interdisciplinary unit, LARCA advocates and practices this interdisciplinarity:

  • by making links between the traditional “literature” and “history” teaching categories
  • by taking a historical approach on anglophone cultures but also by considering objects and questions – among which historical questions – through the prism of a precise, textual or formal perspective anchored in the English language
  • by focusing on cross-disciplinary objects such as visual and material cultures, early modernity studies, or contemporary imaginaries

Organization Chart

Larca Members

LARCA counts among its members:

 

It is one of the largest anglophone studies research units in France. 

Axes and Cross Axes

Since 2017, LARCA has broadened its scope by developing five axes and six cross-axes for 2019-2023.

Axes

 

Cross-axes

 

Larca Team

Board

Administration

  • Corinne Hamel – Administration manager

Research Ingeneers and Technicians

LARCA Council

The LARCA council has a consultative role. Its president is the unit director, Cécile Roudeau, assisted by Jean-Christian Vinel. 

The board meets at least three times a year and when needed, depending on the activity. 

Revues

LARCA produces one scientific journal : Arts of War and Peace

LARCA supports and is involved in the publication of two scientific journals:

  •  Interfaces, edited by the College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, Mass., USA), Université Paris Cité (France), and Université de Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (UBFC, France).
    Interfaces is a bilingual illustrated journal focusing on the dividing line – the “interface” – between language and the image, two means of expression different and yet inseparable. This interface was displaced when the cinema made the image move, then speak, thus making time its medium and creating a new type of discourse. Meanwhile the old interface between language and the static image still remains and its power is enhanced by modern technology.
  • Launched in 2012, TV/Series is the first journal to publish articles, in English and in French, addressing audiovisual serial fiction from all over the world. Series are analyzed as narrative, aesthetic and ideological artworks existing on an ever-increasing number of platforms.
    << Mar 2024 >>
    MTWTFSS
    26 27 28 29 1 2 3
    4 5 6 7 8 9 10
    11 12 13 14 15 16 17
    18 19 20 21 22 23 24
    25 26 27 28 29 30 31

    News

    Twitter @LarcaParis