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CV SÉVERINE LETALLEUR-SOMMER Associate Professor Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense Office V226, building V 200 avenue de la République, 92001, Nanterre (0033)1 40 051 769 / (0033)6 83 363 464/(001)512-915-3634 [email protected] http://anglais.u-paris10.fr/spip.php?article1086 Exchange with the University of Texas at Austin– S. Letalleur Sommer EMPLOYMENT 2007-present Associate Professor [maître de conférences], Double major English & Law, Department of English University of Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense 2004-2007 Teaching Assistant [attaché temporaire d’enseignement & de recherche], University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas 2001-2004 Teaching Assistant [allocataire-moniteur], Paris-Sorbonne University 2000-2001 Secondary school teacher (English), Lycée Hélène Boucher, Paris 1997-1998 French assistant, Kingsway College (London, UK) Preparation of the oral examinations for French GCSEs and A-Levels 1996-1997 French assistant, Preston Manor High School (Wembley, UK) Preparation of the oral examinations for French GCSEs and A-Levels EDUCATION 2001-2006 Ph. D. English Language, Visual Semiotics & Representation Theories, Paris-Sorbonne University, defended in December 2006 Dissertation: “Focusing phenomena in language and image” Committee: Pr. M-M. Martinet (supervisor) & Pr. P. Cotte (supervisor); Pr. C. Bernard, Pr. C. Crowley, Pr. L. Louvel 2003 B. A. in Philosophy (major: Metaphysics, Aesthetics, History of Ideas), Paris-Sorbonne University 2000-2001 D-Phil in English Language & Visual Semiotics (Paris-Sorbonne University) Dissertation: “Image & Grammar”, supervisors: Pr. M.-M. Martinet & Pr. P. Cotte, with highest honours 2000 Agrégation in English [national competitive examination for teachers at secondary and university levels] (10/145 admitted) 1999 CAPES in English [national competitive examination for teachers at secondary level] 1996 M-Phil in History (major: 17th century France) University Toulouse Jean Jaurès. Thesis: “Françoise d’Aubigné ou la jeunesse de Madame de Maintenon – 1635-1719”, supervisor: Pr. E. Birnstiel, with highest honours 1995 B.A. in English, University Toulouse Jean Jaurès (major: English and 18th century England) 1994 B.A. in History (major: French Revolution, 17th century England), University Toulouse Jean Jaurès 1991-1994 Classes préparatoires littéraires (a two-year multi-disciplinary course) at the lycée St Sernin (Toulouse), subjects studied: Literature, Philosophy, History, Geography, Cartography, English & Spanish; major subject: History & Geography 2 Exchange with the University of Texas at Austin– S. Letalleur Sommer 1992 Baccalauréat A1 (Philosophy and Mathematics), with Highest Honours RESEARCH Research topics Representation theories, history of visual culture, visual semiotics, cultural studies, meaning construction via various representational tools – literature, image. Specialised translation. Peer-reviewed articles 2017 (submitted) "Heightened perception and neuroesthetics: when ‘losing sight’ make sense" [with an analysis of Milton’s Paradise Lost] (forthcoming) "L’un et le multiple ou la question de l’intempestivité dans les triptyques de Francis Bacon" ["Unicity and Multiplicity: The Question of Untimely Art in Francis Bacon's Triptychs"] 2015 "More than a Condition: An Examination of Synaesthesia as a Key Cognitive Factor in the Processing of Reality and in its Literary and Pictorial Renditions – Nabokov. Speak, Memory". Synesthésie dans le texte et l’image/Synaesthesia in Texts and Images, S. Aymes, C. Cambray, & M. Géracht (eds.) Interfaces - image, texte, langage - vol. 36, 2015: 29-55. http://college.holycross.edu/interfaces/vol36/Letalleur-Sommer.pdf 2013 "Rôle de la vision et du contexte visuel dans la construction du sens 1 - Poe, ‘The Oval portrait’". [The Role of Vision and of the Visual Context in Meaning Construction– 1]". Etudes de Stylistique Anglaise 3, 2013: 59-74. 2013 "Rôle de la vision et du contexte visuel dans la construction du sens 2 - Poe, ‘The Oval portrait’” – [The Role of Vision and of the Visual Context in Meaning Construction– 2]. Etudes de Stylistique Anglaise 5, 2013: 99-114. 2013 "Meaning Construction and Colour Schemes: an Enactive Paradigm – Rothko ‘Light Red over Black’" Definitions of Color/de la Couleur. F. Ogée & M. Géracht (eds.) Interfaces - image, texte, langage - vol. 33, 2013: 61-80. 2011 "Théories linguistiques/théories esthétiques : la quête du sens et du sujet" [A Cross-Analysis of Linguistic Theories and Aesthetics: Meaning Construction and the Self]. Texte & Image : la théorie au 21ème siècle. Interfaces - image, texte, langage - vol. 32, 2011: 83-98. 2009 "Dialogues théoriques autour de l’émergence du sens linguistique et visuel" [Cross-Examining Theories in Meaning Construction and Text/Image Analysis]. Anglophonia Sigma 26, 2009: 267-281. 2009 "Métaphore & métonymie - effets de style et figures du sens" [Metaphor and Metonymy – Stylistic Effects as Meaningful Devices in V. Woolf’s ‘Kew gardens’]. BSSA 32, 2009: 139-152. 3 Exchange with the University of Texas at Austin– S. Letalleur Sommer 2004 “Uncovering Knowledge Acquisition behind Digital Contextualisation” DigiCULT Info n°9, November 2004. http://www.digicult.info/downloads/digicult_info_9.pdf Other scholarly articles 2017 (forthcoming) "La mise en abyme : de la curiosité esthétique au fondement de la sémiotique" [a study of "mises en abyme" in various fields ranging from literature, art to biology and mathematics] (forthcoming) "’Voyage sentimental’ à l'endroit du sens ou le rôle du sentiment dans la construction du sens au XVIIIème siècle" - Actes du Colloque international et pluridisciplinaire - « Le Sentimentalisme en Europe : splendeur, décadence et renouveau » (to be published online) "Colliding perspectives: the notion of ‘focus’ revisited, from Renaissance optics to sentence analysis and back - an interdisciplinary approach" 2014 "Dispositif perspectif et linéaire linguistique". [A Comparison between Pictorial Perspective and Linguistic Linearity with respect to Information Structure]. Perception, perspective, perspicacité, F. Buisson, C. Lacassain-Lagoin & F. Marie (eds.) Paris: L’Harmattan, 2014: 113-133. 2014 "Meaning Construction in Digital Environments: Turner’s Virtual Gallery". Naming & Narrating. Actes du colloque "Etats critiques et transitions disciplinaires". Transferts critiques et dynamiques des savoirs 1, 2014: 137-154. http://1.static.e- corpus.org/download/notice_file/2522904/Naming%20and%20Narrating.pdf 2012 "Mapping Parameters of Meaning in Words and Pictures: a Comparative Study of Words and Figurative Paintings’ Spatiotemporal Qualities and their Impact on Meaning Construction". M. Sekali and A. Trévise (eds.) Mapping Parameters of Meaning. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012: 118- 134. 2001 "Landscape and Hypermedia: Stowe and Monticello websites" http://www.csti.paris- sorbonne.fr/en/cours/agregation/2001/landscape/landscape.php Books 2007 The English of Law and Politics in the United States (et al.) Paris: Belin, 2007, 368 p. 2006 The English of Law: England and Wales (et al.) Paris: Belin, 2006, 400 p. 4 Exchange with the University of Texas at Austin– S. Letalleur Sommer 2005 Maurel, N. (preface by S. Letalleur). Pictogrammes I/Mnémotechnie. Sète: Villa St Clair, 2005, 126 p. Works in progress 2017 "Simplexity, Meaning Construction & Creativity" Translations 2007 "Anthony Collins’ Debt to French Thought" par James Dybikovski, pour le Centre d’Etude de la Langue et la Littérature Française (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles) Paris IV – CNRS 2016 (forthcoming) US Supreme Court decisions in J. Merchant & V. Michelot. De la Constitution aux droits : les fondements juridiques des droits des femmes aux Etats-Unis (en collaboration avec Vincent Michelot), Lyon: ENS Editions. Conferences organized 2014 co-organization (with A.-P. Bruneau-Rumsey) of the International Conference "Painters & the Great War – productions, commission & collections: towards a comparative history", University Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense in collaboration with the BDIC and the Musée de l’Armée, Hôtel des Invalides December 4-6, 2014 http://anglais.u-paris10.fr/spip.php?article2176 http://www.musee-armee.fr/programmation/expositions/detail/vu-du-front- representer-la-grande-guerre.html 2010 co-organization (with Laurence Veyssière-Harris) of the International Conference "Databases & Information Space", University Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense, January 15-16, 2010 http://anglais.u-paris10.fr/spip.php?article1339 Conference Papers 2016 University Blaise Pascal – Clermont Ferrand "Enaction, language, art and literature." International conference - Langenact – June 1-3 2016 University Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle "Simplexity, Meaning Construction, Creativity." International Conference Heightened senses - Les sens en crise – January 9 2015 University Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité - CRIDAF EA453 "La métalangue de l’emphase : de la technicité du métadiscours à la cognition incarnée" - International Conference Les discours métalinguistiques 2 – March 20 2015 University of Luxembourg - Luxembourg "La mise en abyme, de la curiosité esthétique au fondement de la sémiotique" - Colloque Sonder l’Abyme. "La 5 Exchange with the University of Texas at Austin– S. Letalleur Sommer mise en abyme dans les textes et les images" [A Study of Embedded Structures in Art, Nature, Language & Literature] – January 16 2014 University of Burgundy - Dijon "More than a Condition: An Examination of Synaesthesia as a Key Cognitive Factor in the Processing of Reality and