Emma Wagstaff

Emma Wagstaff is an Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham, specializing in French poetry and its intersections with visual art, translation, and protest cultures. Since 2006, she has taught core and specialist courses on French poetry, experimental writing, and art-literature relationships.

• Research focuses on attentiveness in poetic form
• Investigates connections between French poetry and other arts
• Studies protest movements' influence on creative works

Her recent projects include:

• 1968 in Reviews (British Academy/Leverhulme funded) examining global cultural responses to 1968 protests
• Creative Translation in Schools (AHRC-funded) promoting literary translation pedagogy
• Co-organizing the Contemporary French Poetic Practice AHRC network (2012-2015)

She co-edited the bilingual anthology Writing the Real (2016) and authored studies on Alberto Giacometti (2011) and André du Bouchet (2020). Her article trends highlight:

• Expanding analysis of poetic attention mechanisms
• Comparative studies of protest-related cultural reviews
• Interdisciplinary exploration of word-image interactions
• Translation theory in avant-garde contexts

As a supervisor, she guides PhD students in:

• Modern/contemporary French writing
• Caribbean/African literature
• Poetry-visual art connections
• Comparative literature MA theses