Research output per year
Research output per year
Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
women writers across Europe with a focus on FRance, England, Germany, Italy and Spain, from the16th to the19th centuries (including novelists, playwrights, poets, historians, diarists, journalists, and philosophers).
The history of feminism
Translation in the long eighteenth century, and in the 19th century (France/England/Spain/Italy and Germany)
Baroque and Romantic literature and the visual arts
Post-modern theatre and film with a focus on adaptations of early modern works/ early modern lives, and the recuperation of the past.
Séverine Genieys-Kirk graduated in Anglo-American studies and specialised in Elizabethan and Jacobean Literatures at the University of Nanterre, Paris X, where she took her MA (Maîtrise) in 1995 and her D.E.A (Diplôme d’études approfondies) in 1997.
From 1997 to 2002, she pursued her doctoral studies on women’s writing in early modern France and England at the University of Glasgow. From 2001 to 2004, she was a post-doctoral fellow at University College Dublin, and from 2004 to 2005, she held a lecturership in French in the same institution. Then a recipient of an IRCHSS (Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences) Post-doctoral Fellowship Award (October 2005-December 2006), she started working on one of her new research projects at the National University of Ireland (Maynooth): ‘The Gender of Knowledge: Madeleine-Angélique de Gomez (1684-1770) and the transmission of women’s writing in France, Britain and Ireland’.
She joined French and Francophone Studies at the University of Edinburgh in January 2007.
Her research expertise on early modern women is transdisciplinary - including translation, reception, theatre and film studies. Her academic work has led her to further explore cross-cultural migrations between France and England, and further afield (Spain, Italy and Germany) with a focus on the reception of female-authored texts and the representation of historical women across time periods and genres within the broader context of feminist historiography.
She has published widely on early modern women writers and is currently preparing a collective volume, Recovering Women’s Past: New Epistemologies, New Ventures (Nebraska UP). She has also curated several events as part of her impact project Learning to see women of power: from the Renaissance to the present with The French Institute of Scotland.
Over the last two decades, she has been an active member of several international research groups, such as SIEFAR , www.siefar.org, EU-DARIAH’s Women in History, and The Center for New Historia (The New School, New York). She has also recently been appointed as a member of the editorial board of the Brepols Book Series: Early Modern Women Writers in Europe: Texts, Debates and Genealogies of Knowledge’, led by Dr Carme Font. She has also a keen interest in the performative arts, and is Scotland’s Correspondent and Critic for Plays International & Europe since 2017 (https://www.playsinternational.org.uk/), and enjoys working with practitioners.
She has been invited to give guest lectures in Japan and Spain, and has been the recipient of several awards, an AHRC fellowship grant (2010-2011) and has recently received a EUSA nomination for Outstanding Commitment to Liberation in the Curriculum (Spring 2020).
Her current research interests are in the field of early modern European literature, with particular focus on early modern women’s writing in France and England (e.g Mary Wroth, Madeleine de Scudéry, Eliza Haywood, Madeleine-Angélique de Gomez, Ann Thicknesse, Mary Hays); translation studies (more specifically literary migrations in the 17th- and 18th- centuries, including parodies and adaptations of novels in the long eighteenth century); the history of women's writing; interaction between literature and the visual arts from the Renaissance to the present day, with a particular interest in Baroque/ Rococo aesthetics; feminist historiography, representation of gender in literature, the performative and visual arts and cinema
Postgraduate applications in any of these areas would be welcome.
Research activity
Since 2012, she has been an active contributor to Professor Gina Luria Walker’s international Female Biography Project which became Project Continua www.projectcontinua.org and has now morphed into an exciting venture, The New Historia (2016-).
Séverine’s own contributions to the Female Biography Project has inspired the topic of her ongoing impact project, Learning to the see the Power of Women – which she launched in 2016 as part of her 3-day symposium, Recovering Women’s Past: New Epistemologies, New Ventures.
Since then, she has curated several public events, such as the screenings of March after Cicely Hamilton’s Pageant of Great Women in 2016 and La Princesse de Montpensier (Bertrand Tavernier) in 2018 as part a EU-DARIAH workshop, hosted at the University of Edinburgh.
She has also run a series of workshops at The French Institute of Scotland (Edinburgh) on Mme de La Fayette and Mme de Villedieu, and organised public talks, amongst which ‘Le Matrimoine’ by Aurore Evain.
More recently, she helped organise a local event for International Women’s Day at the Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh, entitled: Thoughts and Actions of Women in History (March, 7th, 2020), and was invited to give a public talk ‘Women celebrating Women: From Christine de Pizan to Germaine de Staël’.
Other research activities
2020: Appointed as member of the editorial board ofthe forthcoming Brepols Book Series: Early Modern Women Writers in Europe: Texts, Debates and Genealogies of Knowledge’ (Series editor, Dr Carme Font)
2019- On the editorial board of The New Historia (The New School, New York)
2018- ongoing: Scotland’s theatre correspondent and critic for Plays International and Europe Magazine
2017- ongoing: Member of The Center for The New Historia Scholars Council and on the Editorial Board
2017- ongoing: Member of the Dariah-EU Women in History Group
2009-2013: Participating in the NEWW (New Approaches to women writers Project), and participating as substitute member of the Management Committee, in COST Action IS 0901 “Women Writers in History”
2011: On SIEFAR’s scientific committee for the 2011 colloquium (La Querelle des femmes en Europe)
2009- ongoing: On SIEFAR’s Translation Committee for the online biographical entries of early modern French women – Chief editor.
2005-2011: On SIEFAR’s administrative Committee
Over the last decade, she has peer-reviewed for several scholarly journals, such as French Studies, Dalhousie French Studies, Forum in Modern Languages studies, and more recently for Tulsa Women’s Studies.
Extra-curricular academic activities include her reviews for Plays International and Europe:
Contributions to Plays International and Europe Magazine (since 2018-) ISSN 02682028
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice at Newhailes House Estate (Musselburgh, June 2018), in Plays International and Europe, vol. 33, 10-12, p. 34.
A rehearsed reading of Muriel Spark's Doctors of Philosophy (Edinburgh Theatre Festival. August 2018) in Plays International and Europe, vol. 33, 10-12, p. 34.
Cyrano de Bergerac, a production by Dominic Hill (October 2018), Plays International and Europe, vol. 33, 10-12, pp. 32-3.
Nora: A Doll’s House, an adaptation by Stef Smith (at Glasgow’s Tramway, Spring 2019), in Plays International and Europe, Summer Issue, vol. 34, 4-6, p. 30-31
Solaris, an adaptation by David Greig (Royal Lyceum Theatre Autumn 2019), in Plays International and Europe, vol 34, 10-12, pp. 26-27.
Research Projects:
2020-2021: Participant in France-based Project (Université Paris-Saclay) : ‘Les représentations des harcèlements sexuels et sexistes du Moyen-âge à l’affaire Weinstein : comment étaient-ils nommés, justifiés, punis, localisés? ». Laboratoire DYPAC (DYnamiques PAtrimoniales et Culturelles) EA 2449, UVSQ et le Centre Pierre Naville, Université d’Evry Val d’Essonne (Dr Armel Dubois-Nayt, project leader, Department of English Studies)
2016- Ongoing impact project: Learning to see the Power of Women: from the Renaissance to the Present
In 2010-2011, she was the recipient of an AHRC award for her project: Women’s spaces, voices and bodies: a cross-cultural study of female-authored prose in early modern Europe 1500-1700, from which arises her monograph 'Female-authored Prose in Early Modern Europe (1500-1700): a cross-cultural study' (in preparation).
2008: Ut Pictura Poesis and The Querelle des femmes (Conference organiser - University of Edinburgh)
In 2005-2006, she was the recipient of an IRCHSS (Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences) Post-doctoral Fellowship Award at the National University of Ireland (Maynooth): ‘The Gender of Knowledge: Madeleine-Angélique de Gomez (1684-1770) and the transmission of women’s writing in France, Britain and Ireland’.
Final-Year Option 1 (2008- ongoing): Women writers in early modern France
Final-Year Option 2 (2014- ongoing): French theatre (1700s-1830s) and the making of revolutions: politics, love and fantasy…
She is Programme Director for the MSc in Theatre Studies and has been contributing to the following MSC core courses:
Supervision:
From September 2020- : PhD project Supervision, Dominique Mason ‘Anglophilia and gender on the agenda: English female authors lost and found again in French translation (from 1700 to the present)’
2019-2020: Msc Supervision: Qinhan Zhou, ‘Hamlet and Macbeth in Chinese Opera’
2018: Msc Supervision: Yingnan Chu: ‘Asia an Asian Theatre in Hélène Cixous’ plays’
2015-2016: Msc Supervision : Ivana Cernanova‘Pathological and thrapeutic discourses in 18th-century French women’s writing: the case studies of Comtesse de Boufflers’s and Madame d’Epinay’s Letters’
English and French Literatures, Doctor of Literature, Picturing women in Mary Wroth's Urania and Madeleine de Scudéry's Clélie., University of Glasgow
Award Date: 1 Jan 2003
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Anthology
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Severine Genieys-Kirk (Participant) & Gina Luria Walker (Chair)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Severine Genieys-Kirk (Chair) & Aurore Evain (Artist)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Public lecture/debate/seminar
Severine Genieys-Kirk (Curator)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Public lecture/debate/seminar
Severine Genieys-Kirk (Organiser)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Severine Genieys-Kirk (Invited speaker)
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Genieys-Kirk, Severine (Recipient), 20 Dec 2022
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