Lise Jaillant

Lise Jaillant is Reader (Associate Professor) in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University, UK. She previously held positions at Newcastle University, the University of East Anglia and the University of Manchester.

She grew up in France and studied sociology at Sciences-Po Paris (one of the prestigious "grandes écoles"). She then did an MA (Distinction) in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck, University of London, and a PhD in English at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

Her research combines "traditional" archival work and new digital approaches.

She is particularly interested in the issue of born-digital archives, with a focus on literary and publishers' archives. The transition from print to digital has created huge challenges, and we urgently need to find solutions to (1) preserve born-digital records such as emails (2) make them accessible (3) produce new knowledge.

When she is not working on Digital Humanities projects, she spends time working in good old paper archives. She has written two books on the publishers that promoted "difficult" modernist literature (by James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and others). She also edited a collection of essays, Publishing Modernist Fiction and Poetry (Edinburgh UP, 2019). Her latest book, a history of creative writers in Anglo-American universities, was published by Oxford UP in 2022.

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