Maxime PHILIPPEResearch Fellow
Department of Franch
E-mail:maxime.philippe.mcgill@gmail.com
Maxime Philippe
Zijingyuan Hotel, No. 135, Xingang Xi Road, Guangzhou, 510275, P. R. China
Cellular: (132) 6510-2473·Email: maxime.philippe@mail.mcgill.ca
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Department of French Language and Literature, 2014
McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Dissertation: La révolution physiologique d’Antonin Artaud: Le théâtre comme thérapie
Thesis adviser: Arnaud Bernadet
Master 2. Littérature Générale et Comparée (LGC) 2008
Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III), Paris, France
Thesis: “Les ‘poétiques du chaos’ d’Édouard Glissant”
Thesis adviser: Jean Bessière
Master 1. Littérature Générale et Comparée (LGC), 2007
Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III), Paris, France
Thesis: “Tres lecciones de tinieblas de José Ángel Valente: une tentative de recréation de la genèse”
Thesis adviser: Daniel-Henri Pageaux
Licence. Sorbonne (Paris IV), Paris, France 2006
Parcours Lettres Modernes (Modern Literature)
EMPLOYMENT
Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China 2017-present
(Associate Researcher, Department of French, School of Foreign Languages)
International Business College, South China Normal University 2016-2017
(Lecturer, Department of French, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China)
École de Technologie Supérieure 2012 - 2015
(Instructor, Department of Communication, Montreal Quebec, Canada)
Royal Military College Winter 2012
(Research Assistant, Department of French Studies, Kingston Ontario, Canada)
University of British Columbia Spring 2011
(Research Assistant, Art History Department, Vancouver British Columbia, Canada)
McGill University Winter 2010
(Lecturer, French Language and Literature Department, Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
McGill University 2008-2009
(Research Assistant, French Language and Literature Department, Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
AREAS OF INTEREST
Areas of specialization: 20th century French Literature and Critical Theory
Areas of competence: Early Modern French Novel, Theatre History, Postcolonial Literature, and Psychology and Creation
PUBLICATIONS – PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES
2017 “The Puppet and its Master: Deconstruction as Ventriloquy.” Word and Text. A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics, 7 (Winter 2017): 216-234.
2014 “Antonin Artaud et la ‘surréa-liste’.” Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 18 (3): 276–84.
2013 “Artaud, l’hérétique.” L’Esprit Créateur 55 (3): 117-28.
BOOKS – IN PROGRESS
Meaning is Happening: Anagrams, Paragrams and Neologisms.
Manuscript completion expected December 2019.
BOOK REVIEWS
2013 “Le sida en question.” Cardin, Hélène and Danielle Messager. La Révolution SIDA, avec la participation du Pr Françoise Barré-Sinoussi. Paris: Odile Jacob, 2013, 218 p. Spirale, 248: 43-44.
2011 “L’imaginaire social et ses monstres.” Popovic, Pierre. Imaginaire social et folie littéraire. Le second Empire de Paulin Gagne. Montréal: Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2008, coll. "Socius," 377 p. in La sociocritique: pour une géologie des textes, dossier scientifique du groupe « Penser la Théorie ». Available at http://www.penserlatheorie.com/pierre-popovic-imaginaire-s.html.
BOOK CHAPTER
2011 “Que reste-t-il de queer à La Recherche ?” Pouvoirs de la transposition: la pensée disciplinaire en question, Concordia University Press, Montreal, 73-82.
ART REVIEWS
2014 “Faire part,” catalogue of the exhibition “De la part des vaincus,” Nantes; France, Gallery RDV, May-July.
2009 “‘Elles@centrepompidou’: la toute première fois”, .dpi la revue du StudioXX, 16 (Novembre), http://dpi.studioxx.org/demo/?q=fr/no/16/elles-centrepompidou-premiere-fois-Par-Maxime-Philippe.
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS
“Recherche au présent” Award 2013
20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium
Arts Dissertation Writing Workshop Fellowship 2012
McGill University
Arts Graduate Research Travel Award 2010-2012
McGill University; three grants
Graduate Scholarship 2008-2015
McGill University
COURSES TAUGHT
Conversational French Winter 2018
Sun Yat-sen University, Canton
History of French Ideas Fall 2017
Sun Yat-sen University, Canton
Master-level course
Advanced French – Introduction to Quebecois Literature Fall 2017
Sun Yat-sen University, Canton
Co-Taught with Xiaoyang Zeng
Oral and Written French Fall 2016
International Business College, South China Normal University, Canton
Francophony: Introduction to Francophone Literature and Culture Fall 2016
International Business College, South China Normal University, Canton
communication (COM110) 2012 - 2015
Co-Taught with Réjane Gélinas and Eftihia Mihelakis
École de Technologie Supérieure, Montreal
Critical Theory (FREN 497) Winter 2010
McGill University, Montreal
Teaching Assistantships
French Literature since 1800 (FREN 251H) Winter 2012
Prof. Arnaud Bernadet, French Language and Literature
Introduction to Quebec Literature (FREN 252A) Fall 2009
Dr. Mathieu Bélisle, French Language and Literature
French Literature since 1800 (FREN 251H) Winter 2009
Dr. Audrey Camus, French Language and Literature
PRESENTATIONS
March 2019 « La littérature de la catastrophe : disparition, destruction, désastre », presented at the 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, Skirvin Hotel, Oklahoma City, OK
October 2018 “The Battleground of the Real,” presented at the International Conference “Intermediality Now: Remapping In-Betweeness,” Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
April 2018 « Le Tout-monde, cette planète », presented at the International Conference “Planetary Cultural and Literary Studies,” University of Montreal, Montreal QC
April 2018 « Le corps sans organes mis à nu: Van Gogh déchaussé », presented at the 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, Providence, RI
May 2015 “Heresy and Poetry: Glissant’s Alternative Literary History,” presented at the 46th Annual NeMLA Convention, Toronto ON
Feb. 2015 « Le placard de lecture: Proust, de Man, Sedgwick », presented at the 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, Baton Rouge LA
Mar. 2014 « Dépenser l’animal: une archéologie de l’économie », presented at the 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, New York City NY
Jan. 2014 “For a ‘Relational Ethnopoetics,’” presented at the MLA Convention, Chicago IL
Mar. 2013 « Antonin Artaud et la ‘surréa-liste’ », presented at the 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, Atlanta GA
Mar. 2013 “The ‘Tower of Babel’: Archeology of Artaud’s To Have Done with the Judgment of God,” presented at the 44th NeMLA Annual Convention, Boston MA
Apr. 2012 “Europe’s becoming archipelago: toward a relational identity,” presented at the Graduate Conference: “Europe’s Dis/Integration: Place, Belonging and Identity Across and Beyond Europe,” McGill University, Montréal QC
Mar. 2011 « Antonin Artaud et la traversée du miroir: une ‘expérience de langage’ », presented at the 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, Long Beach CA
Mar. 2011 « Le devenir-animal d’Artaud: Hoc est enim Corpus meum », presented at the 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, San Francisco CA
Oct. 2010 “Artaud’s Relational Identity: Voice and the ‘Écho-monde,’” presented at the Interdisciplinary Conference “Neither Strange nor Familiar: Contemporary Approaches to Hybridity”, University of Toronto, Toronto ON
Feb. 2010 « Révolutions d’Artaud: l’œuvre avortée », presented at the NYU Department of French Graduate Conference, New York NY
Nov. 2009 « Que reste-t-il de queer à la Recherche ? », presented at the Conference “Transposition” Concordia University, Montréal QC
READING GROUPS, WORKSHOPS, PANELS AND CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
May 2015 Panel organizer and chair for “Timeliness: Unfolding, Alignments, Constellations, Events,” 46th Annual NeMLA Convention, Toronto ON
Mar. 2014 Panel organizer and chair for « Dépenser jusqu’au bout! », 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, New York City NY
2012-2013 Organizer of the reading group “On the subject of…,” on Foucault’s last seminars, McGill University, Montréal QC
Mar. 2011 Chair of the panel “Humanimality in Cixous’ Writings (part one),” 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, San Francisco CA
Apr. 2010 Organizer and presenter of the session « Affect, pédagogie et position critique: l’utopie déprimée », Workshop -« Penser la Théorie », Concordia University, Montréal QC
Mar. 2010 Chair of the panel « Figures: entre savoir et déroute », Colloquium Figura-« Penser la Théorie », Montréal QC
Nov. 2009 Chair of the panel « Les translations du texte », Annual McGill Department of French Language and Literature Conference, Montréal QC
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
French Mother tongue
English Fluent
German Scholarly competence
Italian Scholarly competence
Russian Scholarly competence
Chinese HSK5 equivalent