Dr Áine Larkin

French Studies, School of Modern Languages

Assistant Professor

Rye Hall Building, Block D
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Biography

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.   

Research Interests

Proust studies, critical disability studies, text/image relations, the representation of music and dance in modern and contemporary French culture

Book

Year Publication
2011 Áine Larkin (2011) Proust Writing Photography. Oxford: Legenda.

Book Chapter

Year Publication
2018 Áine Larkin (2018) 'Climbing in Paris: Stairways, Social Class, and the Sartorial in Proust' In: Fashion, Modernity and Materiality in France: From Rousseau to Art Deco. New York : SUNY Press.
2016 Áine Larkin (2016) 'Proust and the Beach as Écran' In: La ligne d’écume: Encountering the French Beach. London : Pavement Books.
2015 Áine Larkin (2015) 'Les objets matériels et le monstre aux yeux verts dans 'À la recherche du temps perdu’' In: Cent ans de jalousie proustienne. Paris : Classiques Garnier.
2013 Áine Larkin (2013) 'Affinities of Photography and Syntax in Proust’s 'À la recherche du temps perdu’' In: The Art of the Text: Visuality in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literary and Other Media. Cardiff : University of Wales Press.
2013 Áine Larkin (2013) 'Theatre and Dance' In: Marcel Proust in Context. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
2012 Áine Larkin (2012) 'Avid Eyes and Ears: Photographic Practice, Perception and Memory in 'À la recherche du temps perdu’' In: Proust and the Visual. Cardiff : University of Wales Press.
2012 Áine Larkin (2012) 'Photography in Proust’s 'À la recherche du temps perdu’' In: Text and Image in Modern European Culture. West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press.
2011 Áine Larkin (2011) 'Suspect Surfaces and Depths: Radiographic Images, Perception and Memory' In: ‘When familiar meanings dissolve...’: Essays in French Studies in Memory of Malcolm Bowie. Oxford : Peter Lang.
2011 Áine Larkin (2011) 'The Ballet Body Beautiful: Pleasure and Pain in Amélie Nothomb’s 'Robert des noms propres'' In: Cherchez la femme: Women and Values in the Francophone World. Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Press.
2009 Áine Larkin (2009) 'Spatio-Temporal Dislocation: The Dual Narratorial Structure of Proust’s 'À la recherche du temps perdu’' In: Dislocation in French and Francophone Textual and Visual Culture. Llampeter : Edwin Mellen Press.

Edited Book

Year Publication
2017 Zohar Hadromi-Allouche and Áine Larkin (Ed.). (2017) Fall Narratives: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Abingdon & New York: Routledge,

Peer Reviewed Journal

Year Publication
2021 Áine Larkin (2021) 'Living with Dying in France: Contemporary French Writing about End-of-Life Care'. Esprit Createur, . [Full-Text]
2021 Áine Larkin (2021) 'Philippe Vigand on Disability, Masculinity, and Ecology'. ESSAYS IN FRENCH LITERATURE, . [Full-Text]
2021 Áine Larkin and Enda McCaffrey (2021) 'French Critical Medical Humanities'. ESSAYS IN FRENCH LITERATURE, (58). [Full-Text]
2019 Áine Larkin (2019) 'Intermedialities: Dance in Modern and Contemporary French Culture'. Forum for Modern Language Studies, .
2016 Áine Larkin (2016) 'Dependence and Masculinity in Contemporary French Writing about Disability'. Esprit Createur, .
2014 Áine Larkin (2014) 'Albertine and Other Performers: Aesthetic Agency, Love, and Jealousy in Proust’s 'À la recherche du temps perdu''. Romance Studies, .
2014 Áine Larkin and Claire Launchbury (2014) 'Unsettling Scores: Proust and Music'. Romance Studies, .
2008 Áine Larkin (2008) 'Images of the Invisible: Composite Photography as a Model for Perception and Memory Processes in Proust’s 'À la recherche du temps perdu’'. Irish Journal of French Studies, .
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Professional Associations

Description Function From / To
Irish Journal of French Studies Editorial Committee member 01/09/2020 - 31/08/2023
Forum for Modern Language Studies Subject Editor for French 01/09/2019 - 31/08/2022
George Washington Wilson Centre for Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen Associate Director 01/08/2015 - 31/12/2021
Society of Dix-Neuviémistes Membership Secretary 01/08/2015 - 30/06/2021

Honors and Awards

Date Title Awarding Body
01/08/2019 Envisioning Women’s Places in the Nineteenth Century: The George Washington Wilson Photographic Enterprise British Academy/Leverhulme
01/01/2015 Sir Herbert Grierson Centre for Textual Criticism and Comparative Literary History award Sir Herbert Grierson Centre for Textual Criticism and Comparative Literary History, University of Aberdeen
01/01/2014 Fall Narratives: An Interdisciplinary Perspective Royal Society of Edinburgh
01/01/2008 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences
01/05/2002 A.J. Leventhal Award Trinity College Dublin
01/01/2001 Claude Pichois PhD Studentship Trinity College Dublin

Employment

Employer Position From / To
University of Aberdeen 01/09/2011 -
University of Limerick 01/03/2011 - 01/08/2011
University College London 01/09/2009 - 01/03/2011
Royal Holloway University of London 01/09/2009 - 01/05/2010
Trinity College Dublin 01/09/2008 - 01/08/2009
Trinity College Dublin 01/09/2006 - 01/05/2008
Trinity College Dublin 01/09/2002 - 01/05/2004

Education

Start date Institution Qualification Subject
Trinity College Dublin
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3
Trinity College Dublin

Other Activities

Description
Liaising with University of Glasgow to monitor academic standards and provide feedback on assessments.

Outreach Activities

Organisation Type Description
British Academy/Leverhulme Civic Society 'Envisioning Women's Places in the Nineteenth Century: The George Washington Wilson Photographic Enterprise' [Link]
University of Aberdeen Civic Society ‘Ghosts on Glass’, public lecture on the history of photography, Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen, April 2012
GWW Centre for Visual Culture, University of Aberdeen Civic Society GWW Centre for Visual Culture directorship: organising events open to members of the public (2015- ) [Link]
University of Aberdeen WayWORD Festival Civic Society Panel chair for a panel on neurodiversity and creativity, May 2021
University of Aberdeen May Festival Civic Society Co-Organiser of the ‘Material City’ photo project, as part of the May Festival, University of Aberdeen, May 2014 and May 2015

Teaching Interests

French literature and visual culture, including photography and cinema, and French language. My current book project explores the representation of illness and disability in contemporary French culture.