Lise Jaillant

Dr. Lise Jaillant, a Senior Lecturer in English and Digital Humanities at Loughborough University, specializes in modernist literature, publishing history, and cultural diffusion. Her research bridges transatlantic literary markets and digital humanities methodologies.

• PhD on the Modern Library series (American publishing, 1917–interwar period)
• Author of Cheap Modernism (Edinburgh University Press, 2019)
• Editor of Publishing Modernist Fiction and Poetry (2019)
• Latest monograph: Literary Rebels: A History of Creative Writers in Anglo-American Universities (Oxford University Press, 2022)

Jaillant’s work examines how publishers commercialized modernist texts (e.g., Woolf, Joyce) alongside middlebrow and genre fiction, reshaping literary reception through affordable reprints. Her research spans Anglo-American universities’ cultural impact and digital humanities frameworks.