Emmanuelle Lacore-Martin

Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies, Deputy Head of the Department of European Languages and Cultures

Biography

Background

Dr Emmanuelle Lacore-Martin is a Senior Lecturer in French Studies and Deputy Head of the Department of European Languages and Cultures since November 2021.

She specialises in Renaissance literature and thought and the evolution of literary forms in the early modern period in relation to ancient Greek and Latin sources and models. She is the author of Figures de l’Histoire et du Temps dans l’Œuvre de Rabelais (Droz, 2011) and has published more widely on the links between early modern historiography, politics and culture. Her recent research concentrates on medical humanities and natural philosophy, exploring parallels in the representation of the body and soul relationship in literary and anatomical works of the period.

 

Current Teaching interests

  • Love and Melancholy in early modern France (Final-Year Option)
  • New Worlds: Anatomy, travel and self-discovery in early modern French literature
  • Anatomy of the Soul: ancient sources of the representation of the soul in early modern natural philosophy
  • Frankétienne: Politics, Poetry and Film (Une étrange cathédrale dans la graisse des ténèbres)
  • French syntax from a comparative perspective
  • Online and blended approaches to language teaching and learning

Postgraduate teaching

  • Medical humanities; anatomy and literature in Renaissance literature (MSc in Comparative literature: Theories and Methods of Literary Study I) (2017-18)

Areas of interest for supervision

Postgraduate research proposals are welcome on early modern French literature and culture, and particularly on the inter-relation between medical, philosophical and literary texts in the Renaissance period. Dr Lacore-Martin is particularly interested in tracing the ancient sources of early modern representations of emotions and the body and soul relationship.

Qualifications

Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm, Paris)

MSc in Comparative Literature (Sorbonne)

Agrégation de Lettres modernes

PhD in French Renaissance Literature (Rabelais) (Sorbonne Nouvelle)

Qualification (CNU, France)

Responsibilities & affiliations

Deputy Head of DELC (November 2021 - present)

Co-Lead, Twinned Lab 'Literatures and Cultures in the Face of War' (KNU-LLC Lab as part of the UoE-Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv strategic partnership started in May 2022)

External examiner, University of Strathclyde (current)

 

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

Yes

Past PhD students supervised

M. BOHARSKI, Clothwork and the Representation of Feminine Expression and Identity in Old French Romance (second supervisor)

Research summary

Literature, historiography, politics and culture in 16th-century France

Ancient sources of literary and medical Renaissance texts (Plato, Aristotle, Hippocratic Corpus, Galen)

Intersection between anatomy and literature in Renaissance French texts (literary genres and poetic forms ; medical humanities; natural philosophy : representations of the soul)

Early modern reflections on form and meaning ; intermedial modes of representation : from anatomical illustrations to epistemic images and imprese.

Current research interests

Early modern reflections on form and meaning ; intermedial modes of representation : from anatomical illustrations to epistemic images and imprese.

Project activity

Co-Lead, with Professor Lilia Miroshnychenko from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (KNU) of the LLC-KNU Twinned Lab ‘Languages and Cultures in the Face of War’, one of the four Twinned Labs created across the UoE as part of the Edinburgh-KNU Partnership which started in May 2022 to support the current needs of Ukrainian education and innovation while working on joint strategic objectives beyond the current crisis.

Past project grants

In 2017 Dr Emmanuelle Lacore-Martin was awarded a RIG from the Carnegie Trust for a project on the representation of Mary Queen of Scots in her writings and in political texts and pamphlets at the time ('Mary Queen of Scots in her own words, and in others' ') which resulted in a recently published article: 'De la forme littéraire comme arme politique: l'effet-recueil dans la version française de la Detectio de Georges Buchanan', Renaissance and Reformation, Toronto, Canada; Vol.44 N.1 (2021).  https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/renref/article/view/37044

Invited speaker

December 2023, Meiji University, Tokyo - ‘Masks and Screens’, Fourth Workshop of the Research Partnership in Intermedia Studies between the University of Edinburgh and Meiji University, Tokyo: ‘Picturing the body-soul relationship : Epistemic images in early modern French literary and anatomical texts’

March 2023, University of Toulouse,  France - L’écrit, le dit et le bâti dans la fratrie Du Bellay : production, transmission et réception : ‘L’ethos de l’historien dans les textes liminaires de Guillaume et Martin du Bellay’.

May 2022, University of Verona, Colloque organised by the Gruppo di Studio sul Cinquecento Francese - Les frères Du Bellay et l’Europe. Politique et culture à la Renaissance, Palazzo Pompei, Museo di Storia naturale : « Ne pas parler d’histoire "comme clerc d’armes" : la tâche de l’historien au prisme des épîtres et préfaces de Guillaume, Martin et René Du Bellay »

June 2022, University of Rouen, Normandie, France, Conference organised by Prof. Xavier Bonnier, Le Détour du comparant : 

"Le rete mirabile et la fabrique de l'âme: la métaphore du filet de pêcheur dans la pensée de la liaison entre l'âme et le corps, de Galien à Raymond de Vieussens".

Organiser

5 October 2023, University of Edinburgh -  Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv :  first joint LLC-KNU International Conference, Literatures and Cultures in the Face of War. Co-hosted by the University of Edinburgh and Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (KNU).

Co-organised with Professor Miroshnychenko and Professor Mykhed from KNU.

Papers delivered

October 2023, University of Edinburgh : Joint LLC – KNU Conference, Literatures and Cultures in the Face of War : ‘Hélène Berr’s Journal : A Literary Remapping of Occupied Paris in the Face of Deportation’.

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