Deirdre d’Albertis and Eric Trudel - The Way We Read Now

Deirdre d’Albertis is Dean of Bard College; Professor of English. Her area of Specialization is 19th- and 20th-century British literature, Victorian studies, history of the novel, narrative fiction, narrative theory, feminist theory. Publications include, Dissembling Fictions: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian Social Text (Palgrave, 1997), and volume editor, Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth (Pickering & Chatto, 2006). Essays published most recently in Victorian Writers and the Environment: Ecocritical Perspectives (2016); Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women’s Literature, 1830-1900 (2015); Afterlives of the Brontës: Biography, Fiction, and Literary Criticism (2014); Other Mothers: Beyond the Maternal Ideal (2008), and The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell (2007). Articles and reviews in Nineteenth-Century Contexts; Victorian Studies; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; Victorians Institute Journal; Journal of the History of Sexuality; and Review. President, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies (2013-15). Areas of interest: Victorian literature and culture, gender studies, narrative theory, history of the novel, Irish history and literature. At Bard since 1991.
Eric Trudel is the author of La Terreur à l’œuvre: théorie, poétique et éthique chez Jean Paulhan (Paris, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, coll. “L’imaginaire du texte,” 2007), and of several scholarly articles and volume chapters on 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone Literatures. He coedited Poétiques de la liste et imaginaire sériel (Montréal, Nota Bene, 2019), "Tout peut servir." Pratiques et enjeux du détournement dans le discours littéraire des XXe et XXIe siècles (Québec, Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2011), Jean Paulhan on Poetry and Politics (Champaign, University of Illinois Press, 2008); and oversaw issues of the journals LHT (Crises de lisibilité, 16, 2016, online), L'Esprit Créateur (“Avant-garde and Arrière-garde in Modernist Literature”, 53/3, 2013; “The Documentary Mode”, 61/2, 2021), and XXI-XX. Reconnaissances littéraires ("Avatars du remake", 4, 2023).
This video was filmed live at the Alpine Fellowship 2023 Symposium in Fjallnas, Sweden. The event was held in partnership with Bard College through the Open Society University Network and supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Foundations.