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Gertrude Stein in Europe

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Gertrude Stein in Europe

Reconfigurations Across Media, Disciplines, and Traditions

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Laura Luise Schultz

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Contents

Sarah Posman and Laura Luise Schultz

Ariane Mildenberg

Mia You

Franziska Gygax

Birgit Van Puymbroeck

Sarah Posman

Isabelle Alfandary

Abigail Lang

Julian Murphet

Marie-Claire Pasquier, translation by Alison Anderson

Andrzej Wirth, translation by donderkast

Laura Luise Schultz

Tania rum

Florine Lepltre

Jacques Roubaud, translation by Jean-Jacques Poucel

Sarah Posman and Laura Luise Schultz

Isabelle Alfandary is Professor of American literature at the Universit Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3. She has published monographs on E. E. Cummings and American modernist poetry. She contributed to the exhibition catalog The Steins Collect and in 2011 organized the international colloquium Gertrude Stein and the Arts during the Paris show of the exhibition, called Matisse, Cezanne, Picasso... Laventure des Steins.

Alison Anderson has translated over thirty novels from French, including Muriel Barberys The Elegance of the Hedgehog, and works by Amlie Nothomb, Christian Bobin, and Nobel laureate JMG Le Clzio. She currently lives in a village in the French speaking part of Switzerland.

Franziska Gygax is Professor of English and American literature and culture at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She is the author of Serious Daring from Within: Female Narrative Strategies in Eudora Weltys Novels and Gender and Genre in Gertrude Stein. Her current research deals with illness narratives.

Abigail Lang is Associate Professor at the Universit Paris-Diderot. She is the author of Le monde compte rendu: Lectures de Louis Zukofsky and the coeditor of Double Change: A Film Archive of Poetry, # 1 and # 2. With Thalia Field she has published the poetry volume A Prank of Georges.

Florine Lepltre holds degrees in Comparative Literature from Ecole Normale Suprieure de Lyon and in Film Studies from Universit Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 and is currently a PhD-candidate in Chinese Literature.

Ariane Mildenberg is Lecturer in Modernism at the University of Kent. She is coeditor of Phenomenology, Modernism and Beyond (2010) and is currently working on two books: a monograph entitled Modernism and Phenomenology and an edited volume entitled Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Modernism.

Julian Murphet is Scientia Professor of English and Film Studies, School of the Arts and Media, at UNSW Australia, where he also directs the Centre for Modernism Studies. He is the author of Multimedia Modernism and the coeditor of Modernism and Masculinity, among other things. He edits the journal Affirmations: of the Modern.

Tania rum is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She is the cofounder of the Nordic Network of Avant-Garde Studies as well as The European Network of Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM). An important figure in Danish intellectual life since the 1960s, rum has published widely on feminist and avant-garde theory, literature, and art. Her recent work includes De eksperimenterende tressere (The Experimental Sixties), a seminal work on the Danish art scene of the 1960s. rum is the main editor of the four-volume series A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries.

Marie-Claire Pasquier is Professor Emerita at the Universit of Paris XNanterre, France. She has translated work by Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, and Philip Roth into French.

Sarah Posman is a postdoctoral researcher funded by the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO) at Ghent University, Belgium. She has coedited The Aesthetics of Matter: Modernism, the Avant-Garde and Material Exchange and is working on a book that deals with Gertrude Stein and vitalism.

Jean-Jacques Poucel is the author of Jacques Roubaud and the Invention of Memory (UNC Press, 2006) and has written articles on the Oulipo movement, which have appeared in Yale French Studies, Poetics Today, and the Oulipo dossier at www.drunkenboat.com. His translations of Emmanuel Hocquards Conditions of Light (2010) and Anne Portugals Flirt Formula (2012) were published by La Presse (Fence Books). He is Assistant Professor of French at the University of Calgary.

Jacques Roubaud is a French mathematician, poet, novelist, and essayist. He is Professor of poetry at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. He has been awarded many prestigious literary prizes, among which are the Grand Prix National de la Posie in 1990 and the French Academy Grand Prix de Littrature Paul-Morand in 2008.

Laura Luise Schultz is Associate Professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Cofounder and chair of the Danish Gertrude Stein Society, she wrote her PhD dissertation on Gertrude Steins plays and theater aesthetics. She was the main organizer of the 2014 international conference A Valentine To Gertrude Stein: The Reception of Gertrude Stein in the Arts and Humanities.

Catharine R. Stimpson is Professor of Law, Professor of English, and former dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University. She founded the journal Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Her many publications include the two-volume Library of America edition Gertrude Stein. Writings, which she coedited with Harriet Chessman.

Birgit Van Puymbroeck is a postdoctoral research fellow in English Literature at Ghent University, Belgium. She recently coedited a special issue of Bront Studies and is currently working on a book, provisionally entitled Modernist Networks: Anglo-French Connections in Literature and Culture.

Andrzej Wirth is Professor Emeritus and founding director of the Institute for Applied Theater Studies at the Justus-Liebig-Universitt Giessen, Germany.

Mia You is a doctoral student in English at UC Berkeley, writing her dissertation on Gertrude Steins conception of poetry and its influence on contemporary writing. She is also the Central Editor of Poetry International Rotterdam and the author of a poetry book, I, Too, Dislike It (forthcoming, 1913 Press).

Catharine R. Stimpson

Gertrude Stein is the most radical, startling writer in English of the twentieth century. She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania; grew up in Oakland, California; went to college in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and had an unhappy stint as a medical student in Baltimore, Maryland. She wrote extensivelymajor and minor works alikeabout America and Americans.

Yet, she spent nearly all of her adult life in Europe, from 1903 until her death in Paris in 1946. She and her partner, Alice B. Toklas, share a gravestone in the legendary cemetery Pre Lachaise. Crucially, Stein was