Áine Larkin

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.