ElisabethÌýArnould-Bloomfield
- Associate Professor
- FRENCH

HUMN 331
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Friday 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Biography
Élisabeth Arnould-Bloomfield received her Licence and Maîtrise de Lettres from Lycée Henri IV and the Sorbonne University (Paris IV).Ìý She completed her Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California at San Diego and taught at Johns Hopkins and the University of Kentucky before coming to the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 2002.ÌýHer research and teaching interests include poetry, critical theory, philosophy, animal- and ecological-studies. She has published on Proust, Ponge, Pierre Michon, Boubacar Diop, Marie NDiaye, Jean-Christophe Bailly and T.C. Boyle. Her monograph Bataille et la terreur dans les lettres was published at the Presses Universitaires du Septentrion in 2009 and she is currently finishing a book-length essay on contemporary animal discourse entitled Animal Encounters of a Closer Kind. ÌýHer latest publication is a collection on Bruno Latour and Literature entitled Nonmodern Practices: Latour and Literary Studies, edited with Claire Chi-ah Lyu (University of Virginia).
Publications
Books
Georges Bataille, la terreur et les lettres,ÌýPresses Universitaires du Septentrion,ÌýLille,Ìý2009.
Animal Encounters of a Closer Kind, manuscript in progress.
Edited Volumes
Nonmodern Practices, Latour and Literary Studies, Edited by Elisabeth Arnould-Bloomfield and Claire Chi-ah Lyu, Bloomsbury Press, NY, 2020.
Aesthetics of Intimacy, Intimacy of Aesthetics,Ìýco-editor with Suzanne Pucci, special issue ofÌýL’Esprit Createur, vol. XLIV, no. 1 (2004)
Articles
Articles published in Diacritics, MLN, French Forum, L’Esprit Créateur, SITES, Cahiers Bataille, PMLA, Humanities (see current C.V.)
Currrent Research Interests
- Twentieth- and twenty-first century French literature, criticism, and culture
- Animals in contemporary literatures and cultures
- Environmental studies