Zoë Roth
Assistant Professor
School of Modern Languages and Cultures
Durham University
United Kingdom
Biography
He completed my PhD in Comparative Literature at King’s College London in 2013, where He also taught as a Visiting Lecturer until joining Durham in September 2014. From 2012-2013 He held a Junior Research Fellowship at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, where He began research looking at francophone Jewish avant-garde artists and writers.
Research Interest
My research is broadly concerned with the relationship between lived experience and aesthetics in twentieth-century French and comparative literature. My thesis explored the role of embodiment—or the experience of the lived body—in shaping twentieth-century European literature. By eroding the mind-body dualism underpinning representation’s mimetic function, embodied experience gives rise to such literary strategies as stream-of-consciousness, fragmentation, and the breakdown between inner and outer worlds that characterize modernism and postmodernism.
Publications
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Roth, Zoe (2012). Against Representation: Death, Desire, and Art in Philip Roth’s The Dying Animal. Philip Roth Studies 8(1): 95-100.
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Roth, Zoe (2013). Vita brevis, ars longa: ekphrasis, the art object, and the consumption of the subject in Henry James and Michel Houellebecq. Word & Image 29(2): 139-156.
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Roth, Zoe (2018). War of Images or Images of War? Visualizing History in Jonathan Littells The Kindly Ones. Journal of Modern Literature
