Lucie-Ly Mey
- Celtic and Scottish Studies
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Email: L.S.Mey@sms.ed.ac.uk
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Address
- Street
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50 George Square
- City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9JU
Background
PhD candidate researching the translations of James Macpherson's Poems of Ossian in France (1760-1842).
Other interests: 19th-century Realism, Gustave Flaubert, George Eliot, Marcel Pagnol, Hervé Bazin, Scottish Gaelic, translation and reception.
Qualifications
M. A. Celtic & English Literature, The University of Edinburgh (2024).
Bachelor in French Literature, Université de Rouen Normandie (2024).
MPhil in Literature, Culture and Thought, The University of Cambridge (2025).
Current project grants
College Research Award recipient at the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (2025-2028).
Papers delivered
“The Realist Imperative: Theoretical Stakes and Operative Aesthetics in Gustave Flaubert and George Eliot”, The Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies International Symposium, The University of London Institute in Paris, June 2026.
UPCOMING. ““Ossian n'existait intégralement dans aucune copie, quoiqu'il fût disséminé dans toutes”: Requalifying the significance and nature of authenticity in the French reception of Ossian”, Congress of the Société Française des Études Écossaises « L’Écosse et l’entre-deux », Université de Lorraine, Nancy, November 2026.