Tristanne Connolly, Department of English, St. Jerome's University

my homepage / sju homepage

note: this page was updated until august 2010.

for more recent information on my research activities, please see my research blog: tristanne.wordpress.com

research

recent publications:

Queer Blake, co-edited with Helen Bruder, just came out from Palgrave. This essay collection is conceived as a companion volume to Bruder's collection Women Reading William Blake. The intention of WRWB was to see what Blake looked like in the company of women; in QB we want to see how Blake's celebrated sexual visions appear once compulsory heterosex is ditched as an interpretive norm, and queer's other implications -- performative, experimental, aesthetic, historical -- are embraced.

My essay for this collection is "'Fear not / To unfold your dark visions of torment': Blake and Emin's Bad Sex Aesthetic"

Here's Palgrave's catalogue listing for the book.

Liberating Medicine 1720 - 1835, co-edited with Steve Clark, came out in 2009 from Pickering and Chatto.

My essay for this collection is "Anna Barbauld's 'To a Little Invisible Being...': Maternity in Poetry and Medicine"

Here's Pickering & Chatto's catalogue listing for the book.

forthcoming publications:

Spectacular Death: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Morality and (Un)Representability, forthcoming from Intellect Books, is an essay collection I've edited which represents work coming out of the Grey Zone project (described below). It's part of a series of books produced by the research group. The series title is Culture, Disease, and Well-Being: The Grey Zone of Health and Illness

My essay for this collection is "'Mother of Unworthy Woe': Infant Death and Sentimental Maternity in British Romantic Women's Poetry and Midwifery Books"

Here's Intellect's catalogue listing for the book.

Blake 2.0, co-edited with Jason Whittaker and Steve Clark, is forthcoming from Palgrave in 2011. It's a collection of essays on the twenty- and twenty-first century reception of Blake in non-literary areas such as music and film, as well as new media. My essay for the collection is "'He Took a Face from the Ancient Gallery': Blake and Jim Morrison".

previous publications:

"Transgender Juvenilia: Blake's and Cristall's Poetical Sketches" Women Reading William Blake, edited by Helen Bruder. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Here's Palgrave's catalogue listing for the book.

"'The Authority of the Ancients": Blake and Wilkins' Translation of the Bhagvat-Geeta". The Reception of Blake in the Orient. Ed. Steve Clark and Masashi Suzuki. London: Continuum, 2006.

Here's Continuum's catalogue listing for the book.

In 2002 I published a book, William Blake and the Body. There's information and a sample chapter at Palgrave's UK website.

current & recent projects:

"Blake Workshop at Tate Britain: Eight Newly Acquired Plates, in co-operation with Tate Research Centre: British Romanticism" was an event I co-organized with curator Philippa Simpson, where an invited group of Blake scholars examined and discussed up close the famed Blake prints recently found in a railway timetable.

With Helen Bruder, I organized a conference on Blake, Gender and Sexuality in the Twenty-First Century, held in Oxford in July 2010. For full details, see our conference website.

I presented at, and helped out with, a conference on Digital Romanticisms organized by Steve Clark at the University of Tokyo in May 2010. Here's the programme, at the Japan Association for English Romanticism website.

I'm one of a group of investigators on a five-year multidisciplinary project, City Life and Well-Being: The Grey Zone of Health and Illness, funded by a Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) Operating Grant. My section of the project is entitled "Midwifery and Collective Representations of the Reproductive Body". Please visit the Grey Zone website.

Morgan Tunzelmann is also a member of this project, doing her PhD in English here at Waterloo. The Faculty of Arts website features her research in its Graduate Student Profiles.

As one of many parts of the CIHR project, I organized three panels on "Liberating Medicine" (on the topics "Medical Tropes", "Madness" and "Maternity", respectively) for the British and North American Romanticism societies (BARS/NASSR) joint conference on Liberation, Emancipation, Freedom, held in Bristol, July 2007.

And at the 2008 NASSR conference at the University of Toronto, Romantic Diversity, I organized a special session on "The Diversity of Literature, Art and Medicine".

For the 2009 BARS conference, Romantic Circulations, held in London at Roehampton University (July 2009), Steve Clark and I organized another two Grey Zone related panels on "Medical Circulations".

international activities:

I'm honoured to be an associate member of the Institute for American and Canadian Studies at Sophia University in Tokyo.

In Spring 2009 and 2010 I pursued some lectures and collaborations in Tokyo.

In Spring of 2007 and 2008, I have been Visiting Scholar at the University of Tokyo, in the Department of Contemporary Literary Studies. While in Japan, I have given lectures, seminars and classes at various universities and some public venues (eg the Embassy of Canada) on British and Canadian literature and culture.

In Spring 2006, I did a lecture tour of Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong, supported by the Cultural Personalities Exchange Program of the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs.

Click here for a list of these activities.