Adrian GRAFE

Adrian GRAFE is a University Professor of Literature of English-speaking countries at the Université d'Artois, affiliated with the UFR of Foreign Languages. His academic career includes a BA from Oxford University (1980), agrégé (1993), and a PhD from Université Paris VII (1997). He has held HDR (2007) from the University of Caen. His research focuses on poetry's formal elements, sacred themes, music-poetry intersections, and resistance narratives. He co-founded LOOP (Laboratoire ouvert de l’œuvre poétique) and organizes international symposia on literary topics like Bob Dylan and contemporary poets.

Research interests include prosody, poetry's relationship with religion and music, and 20th-century British poetry. He has authored/co-edited over a dozen books, including Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Dark Profusion and Ecstasy and Understanding. His recent work explores music anthropology and poetry's role in cultural memory.

Teaching responsibilities span undergraduate and graduate courses in English literature, postcolonial studies, and creative writing. He serves on editorial boards for Victorian Poetry and The Hopkins Quarterly. Awards include Fellow status in the English Association. Current projects include conferences on Coetzee, Romanticism, and refugee narratives.