Professor Alexis Nuselovici (Pen name: Alexis Nouss)
Overview
Position:
Professor (Chair Of Modern Cultural Studies)
Email:
NuseloviciA@cardiff.ac.ukTelephone: +44(0)29 2087 5602
Fax: +44(0)29 2087 4946
Extension: 75602
Location: Room 1.44, 65-68 Park Place
My research interests focus on two main areas: European culture and Translation Studies. Both are connected since I consider European culture as a culture in translation, between the cultures of Europe and between Europe and the world, which calls for non-territorial approaches of culture.
Translation, between languages and between cultures, refers to a practice as well as a field of knowledge. As such it has a very important role to play in our era of globalization and European unification.
My other areas of research include cultural expressions of exilic and diasporic experiences (see my research group website address below), cultural hybridity and métissage, convergence betweeen Black memory and Jewish memory, aesthetics of modernism and postmodernism, Holocaust literature.
Selected publications
Paul Celan. Les lieux d'un déplacement, Lormont, Editions Le Bord de l'Eau, 2010.
Plaidoyer pour un monde métis, Paris, Textuel, 2005.
Métissages. De Arcimboldo à Zombi (with F. Laplantine), Paris, Pauvert, 2001 (translated into Spanish).
Dire l’événement, est-ce possible? (with Jacques Derrida et Gad Soussana), Paris, L'Harmattan, 1997.
Le métissage (with F. Laplantine), Paris, Flammarion, 1997 (translated into Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish)
La modernité, Paris, PUF (« Que sais-je? » series), 1995 (translated into Spanish, Romanian, Japanese, Korean).
Research Unit
Languages, Cultures and Ideologies
Cardiff Research Group on Politics of Translating
Related Links
Publications
Selection
Authored books
Paul Celan. Les lieux d’un déplacement, Lormont : Éditions Le Bord de l’Eau, 2010
Plaidoyer pour un monde métis, Paris : Editions Textuel, 2005
Métissages. De Arcimboldo a Zombi (with F. Laplantine), Paris : Pauvert, 2001
Le métissage (with F. Laplantine), Paris: Flammarion, 1997 (translated into Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish)
La modernité, Paris : PUF (« Que sais-je? » series), 1995 (translated into Spanish, Romanian, Japanese, Korean).
Refereed journal articles
« From Mestiçagem to Cosmopolitanism », CRL James Journal, Caribbean Philosophical Association, Special issue: “Creolizing Rousseau”, vol. 15, n. 1, Spring 2009
Chapters in books
“Visage tardif”, in Panim/Pnim. L’exil prend-il au visage? Paris: Editions EDK, 2009
“La relation transhistorique”, in Űbersetzung und Hermeneutik/Traduction et Herméneutique, Bucarest: Zeta Books, 2009
“Une traduction responsable” in Un monde en trans, Paris : Editions EDK, 2009
« Urdimbres y tramas transhistóricas » (tr. by Miguel Tolosa Igualada) in La traducción : balance del pasado y retos del futuro, Alicante: Universidad de Alicante y Editorial Aguaclara, 2009
Dire l’événement, est-ce possible? (with Jacques Derrida et Gad Soussana), Paris : L'Harmattan, 1997.
Other publications (Book review)
« Traduire pour vivre » ( Éthique et politique du traduire de H. Meschonnic), Spirale, Montréal, 2009
« Répondre à la demande » (L’homme sans particularités de R. Major), Spirale, Montréal, 2009
Research
Research Groups
Cardiff Research Group on Politics of Translating.Cardiff School of European Studies.
Histories, Memories and Fictions of Europe, Cardiff School of European Studies.
Caribbean Philosophical Association, USA
Centre Interuniversitaire d’Etudes des Littératures et des Arts Traditionnels (CELAT), Laval University, Quebec, Canada.
Grupo de Investigación Tradución y Paratradución, Universidade de Vigo, Spain.
Migrations, frontières et interculturalités, Lille 3, France.
Biography
Career Profile
PhD in French Literature from Paris III-La Sorbonne nouvelle.
After teaching for 3 years at Concordia University, Department of French studies, Montreal, and 15 years at University of Montreal, Department of Linguistics and Translation, I joined the School of European Studies in October 2007.
I have been invited as guest professor in France, Brazil, Spain, Turkey.
Memberships / External Activities
I am a member of the editorial board for the following scientific journals: Droletania, Spain; Translation Studies in the New Millenium, Turkey; Théologiques, TTR, Meta. Journal des traducteurs, Alternative Francophone, Canada.
Teaching Profile
I offer the 4th year module “Europe in Translation” and teach on the core modules “Research Methods and Skills” and “European Identities” and on the module “May 68: Marking Changes in European Politics and Culture”.
I am the co-ordinator for the MA Translation Studies.
Administrative responsibilities
I sit on the School Board of Studies and I am a member of the Cardiff University Senate.