Lang Abigail

A former student of the École Normale Supérieure Fontenay Saint Cloud, I have been a lecturer at the Université Paris Cité since 2001, where I teach American literature and translation. I specialize in modernist and contemporary poetry and poetics, focusing on the productive transfers between languages, cultures and media (La Conversation transatlantique, 2021). With Vincent Broqua and Olivier Brossard, I run the Poets & Critics research network and the Double Change bilingual poetry series. With Michel Murat and Céline Pardo, I lead the Archives sonores de poésie project which promotes scholarly attention to poetry in performance. I have translated some twenty works of English-language poetry into French, and written two books with Thalia Field, a performance-essay on Gertrude Stein (A Prank of Georges, 2010), and a spy novel on translation (Leave to Remain. Legends of Janus, 2019).

Scientific and Editorial Responsibilities

• Convenor, with Vincent Broqua and Olivier Brossard, of the Poets & Critics research program
• Co-founder and supervisor of the Archives sonores de poésie open source online repository
• Convenor of the LISTEN seminar
• In charge of the Boundaries of literature axis (since 2020)

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  Le John Giorno Poetry Day

  Abigail Lang – La compagnie des poètes – France Culture – 18 septembre 2020

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  Poétiques de la radio

  France Culture, La Compagnie des poètes – Abigail Lang – 8 février 2019

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  Ritournelles #19 – L’Anglais Mêlé, lecture bilingue à 4 voix

  Bordeaux, 15 novembre 2018 – Abigail Lang

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  Radio Brouhaha au festival Extra ! 2018

  Centre Pompidou, 5 septembre 2018. Table-ronde autour de Tracie Morris – Abigail Lang

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  Emmanuel Hocquard. La poésie mode d’emploi Date de publication : 23/11/2020
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  Leave to Remain Legend of Janus Date de publication : 27/03/2020
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  Archives sonores de la poésie Date de publication : 19/12/2019
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  Scores | Partitions, Revue Française d’Études Américaines n°153 Date de publication : 01/09/2017
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  Change numérique Édition intégrale de la revue Change (1968-1983) Date de publication : 02/05/2016
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  Modernist Legacies Trends and Faultlines in British Poetry Today Date de publication : 19/01/2015
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  Double Change n° 1 + 2 Archive filmée de poésie – 2004-2005 + 2005-2006 (DVD) Date de publication : 19/01/2009
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  Scapes. English Language Poetry Cahiers Charles V, hors-série 2006 Date de publication : 19/12/2006

• Abigail Lang, « From Poetry Book to Playlist: How Open-Access Audio Archives are Renewing the Poetry Collection », Sillages critiques [En ligne], 33 | 2022. http://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/13944
• Abigail Lang, “Bail Out Poetry”,boundary 2 1 November 2021; 48 (4): 129–137. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-9382187
• Abigail Lang, ““Finding a Form to Accommodate the Mess”. Experimental Science and Storytelling in Thalia Field’s Writing”, Angles [Online], 6 | 2018. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/angles/974; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/angles.974

• “Contemporary poetry and transatlantic poetics at the Royaumont Translation Seminars (1983-2000) : an experimental language laboratory”, Collaborative Translation From the Renaissance to the Digital Age, eds. Anthony Cordingley, Céline Frigau Manning, London, Bloomsbury, 2016.

• « The Ongoing French Reception of the Objectivists », Transatlantica, 1 | 2016.

• Lyn Hejinian, Ma vie, trad. Abigail Lang, Maïtreyi et Nicolas Pesquès, Dijon, Motion Method Memory / Presses du Réel, 2016.

• « De la poetry reading à la lecture publique », Dire la poésie, ed. Jean-François Puff, Éditions Cécile Defaut, 2015.

• Modernist Legacies. Trends and Faultines in British Poetry Today, eds. Abigail Lang and David Nowell-Smith, Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Series, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. [compte-rendu]

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