Staff Profile

Background

I was appointed Professor of French Studies, at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in January 2001. I am also a Life Member of Clare Hall Cambridge. My first degree was at King's College London. I then began my research at the École Normale Supérieure Paris before returning to London where I completed a PhD on Paul Valéry. A revised version of this was published by Cambridge University Press.
1968 - 1970 University of London Postgraduate Studentship
1967 - 1968 Boursier du gouvernement français, Ecole Normale Supérieure

Qualifications

BA Hons King's College London
PGCE
PhD University of London: thesis entitled 'Paul Valéry and Music: a study of the techniques of composition in Valéry's poetry'

Previous Positions

Previously I was Professor of 20th Century French Literature at the University of Surrey Roehampton, and Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall Cambridge in 1990.

Memberships

Member of the Executive Committee of the Association of University Professors of French and Heads of Department: www.bristol.ac.uk/auphf
Secretary, British Association for Valéry Studies.
Valéry research team, Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes, CNRS, Paris
Society for French Studies
Société Marguerite Duras

Honours and Awards

Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques

Research Interests

Professor Brian Stimpson's main areas of research interests are in twentieth-century literature, modern French cultural studies, music and the visual arts, translation, and manuscript studies. In literature his work has focused particularly upon Paul Valéry, as well as publications on Duras, Colette, genetic criticism and the concept of voice. He is Editor in Chief of the five-volume translation into English of Valéry's Cahiers / Notebooks (vols. 1 & 2 published by Peter Lang, 2000) and also is currently working as co-editor preparing the digitized version of Valéry's private library and marginalia; see Valéry Studies.

Future Research

Writers and Artists in France.
The project will lead to an electronic data-base, an exhibition, conferences and publications.

The Gaze in French Art and Literature: the project seeks to trace the development of the relationship between observer and observed in painting and writing in France. Issues such as the changing understanding of perception, the circulation of images in art, the relation between 'inner' and 'outer' gaze would be examined, as well as the way that changes in the representation of visual images may be related to approaches to verbal representation in literature.

Research Roles

Director of Research, School of Modern Languages

Postgraduate Supervision

Currently: PhDs on M. Duras (awarded 2004) and on The theory and practice of translation quality of novels (to sbe submited 2004); MPhil on French Women's writing in WW2; Mlitt on Travel Writing
Previously: Supervision of PhD and MPhil degrees both in UK and in partnership with universities in France, including work on Paul Valéry, on Loys Masson, on popular music journalism and on the publication of translations in France & UK.

Esteem Indicators

1992 - 1993 British Academy / Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship
1990 Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall Cambridge
1984 -5 Visiting scholar, Université d'Angers

Funding

2004 Institut français du Royaume-Uni: Duras conference
2004 British Academy Conference Grant
2004 Society for French Studies: PG bursaries for Duras conference
2004 Société Marguerite Duras: Duras Conference
2003 Institut français du Royaume-Uni: India / Indochina conference
2002 British Academy : travel to Seoul conference
2001/02 Modern Humanities Research Association: appointment of Research Associateship at University of Newcastle upon Tyne
2000 French Ministry of Culture – Centre National du Livre: award in support of the translation of the Valéry Cahiers (vols. 1 & 2)
1999 Editions Peter Lang: grant in support of translation
1999 Fondation Singer-Polignac: Research Award
1998 - 1999 Humanities Research Board : Research Leave Award
1998-2002 CNRS/ Programme 'Les Archives de la Création', annual award

Undergraduate Teaching

Undergraduate: Literature studies , years 1, 2, 4; Visual Arts: from Impressionism to Surrealism, year 2; translation, year 4; Paris, History and culture, year 4.

Postgraduate Teaching

MA: Language and textual analysis; literature; translation; dissertation supervision
PhD: contributions to research methods course

• Stimpson, B. ''«Dessiner virtuellement» : l'autoportrait chez Valéry et Degas'. In: Image, Imagination Imaginaire autour de Paul Valéry. 2007, Paris: Lettres Modernes Minard.
• Stimpson B. Au commencement fut la fin : l'écriture en devenir chez Valéry et Duras. In: Gifford, P; Schmid, M, ed. La création en acte: Devenir de la critique génétique. Amsterdam / New York: Rodopi, 2007, pp.111-129.
• Stimpson B. Des Coréens à Emily L.: genèse d'une poïétique durassienne. In: el Maïzi, M; Stimpson, B, ed. Marguerite Duras 2: écriture, écritures. Paris: Lettres Modernes, 2007, pp.25-49.
• Stimpson B. L'Écriture en devenir: La Jeune Parque et 'La Pythie' de Paul Valéry. Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2009.
• Stimpson B. L'œil affiné au dedans. In: Vogel, C, ed. Valéry et Léonard : le drame d'une rencontre Genèse de l'Introduction à la méthode de Léonard de Vinci. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2007, pp.127-140.
• Stimpson, B. Language, Culture and Identity: translations of the self in the Cahiers/Notebooks of Paul Valéry. Translation and Culture 2007, 28.
• El Maizi M, Stimpson B, ed. Marguerite Duras: écriture, écritures. Paris: Minard/Lettres Modernes, 2007.
• Stimpson B. Nadia Boulanger et le monde littéraire. In: Laederich, A, ed. Nadia Boulanger et Lili Boulanger, témoignages et études. Lyon: Symétrie, 2007, pp.139-156.
• Stimpson B. Les Lectures de Valéry: catalogue et corpus des notes marginales. Paris-Genève: Champion-Slatkine, 2006.
• Stimpson B. "Une différence interne au centre de l'âme" : Ébauches et réécritures dans les mansucrits d'Emily L. Roman 20-50 2005, 40(décembre 2005), 83-93.
• Stimpson B. 'L'écriture en scène dans les manuscrits de Duras'. In: Alazet, B, ed. Cahiers de l'Herne: numéro spécial Marguerite Duras. Paris, France: Éditions de l'Herne, 2005, pp.105-109.
• Stimspon B. 'Piano et chant'. In: Gifford, P., Pickering, R., Schmidt-Radefeldt, J, ed. Paul Valéry à tous les points de vue. Hommage à Judith Robinson-Valéry. Paris, France: L'Harmattan, 2003, pp.189-194.
• Stimpson B, ed. Paul Valéry, Cahiers 1894-1914 : Tome IX, 1907-1909. Paris, France: Gallimard, 2003.
• Stimpson B. Vie mentale – série infinie de traductions. Bulletin des Etudes Valeryennes 2002, (autumn), 273-300.
• Stimpson B, Robinson-Valéry J. La Bibliothèque de Valéry: traces de lectures, catalogue et corpus des notes marginales. In: Ferrer, D., d'Iorio, P, ed. La Bibliothèque des écrivains. Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 2001, pp.195-224.
• Stimpson B. 'Traduire la pensée / traduire les Cahiers: des pas vers les Notebooks de Paul Valéry'. In: Klettke, C., Franco, A., Hammermüller, G, ed. Asthetik der Texte – Varietät vons Sprache, Beiträge zu Paul Valéry und zur Romanischen Philologie. Tubingen: Gunter Narr, 2001, pp.75-85.
• Valéry Paul. Cahiers 1894-1914. Paris: Gallimard, 2001.
• Stimpson BE (Trans), ed. Cahiers/Notebooks by Paul Valéry (vol 1). Berlin, New York, Brussels, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2000.
• Stimpson B. Lectures de Duras: corps, voix et ecriture. Halifax, Canada: Dalhousie French Studies, 2000.
• Stimpson BE. Lectures de Duras: corps, voix et écriture. Halifax, Novia Scotia: Dalhousie French Studies, 2000.
• Stimpson B. An aesthetics of the subject: music and the visual arts. In: Stimpson, Brian & Gifford, Paul, ed. Reading Paul Valéry: Universe in Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp.219-235.
• Stimpson, Brian. 'Valéry's counter fiction'. In: Stimpson, Brian & Gifford, Paul, ed. Reading Paul Valéry: Universe in Mind. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1999.
• Stimpson BE, Gifford P. Reading Paul Valery: Universe in Mind. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
• Brian Stimpson. 'Les tons du Moi: problématiques de la traduction en anglais des Cahiers'. In: F. Buffoni, A. Mandelbaum, E. Mettidi, ed. Testo e Fronte, Semestrale di teorie e pratica della traduzione lettereria. Milan: Marcos y Marcos, 1998.
• Stimpson, Brian and Spaas, Lieve. Robinson Crusoe: myths and metamorphoses. London: Macmillan, 1996.
• Stimpson, Brian et Celeyrette-Pietri, Nicole (éd.). Un nouveau regard sur Valéry. Paris: Minard, 1995.
• Stimpson, Brian et Gifford, Paul (éd). Paul Valéry: Musique, Mystique, Mathématique. Lille: Presses Universitaires de Lille, 1993.
• Stimpson, Brian (éd.). Lecture plurielle d'"Ebauche d'un serpent". Special issue of the Bulletin des Etudes Valéryennes. Bulletin des Études Valéryennes, 1989.
• Stimpson, Brian. Paul Valéry and Music: a study of the techniques of composition in Valéry's poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
• Stimpson, Brian. Colette, Le Blé en herbe. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1981.
• Stimpson BE, ed. Cahiers/Notebooks by Paul Valéry (vol 4). Berlin, New York, Brussels, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010.
• Stimpson BE, ed. Cahiers/Notebooks by Paul Valéry (vol 5). Berlin, New York, Brussels, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010.
• Stimpson BE, ed. Cahiers/Notebooks by Paul Valéry (vol 3). Berlin, New York, Brussels, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007.
• Stimpson B. Paul Valery, part 9: Background on the 'Cahiers'. French Studies 2002, 56(2), 258-259.
• Stimpson B. Paul Valery: the page, the writing. French Studies 2002, 56(2), 258-259.
• Stimpson B, ed. Cahiers/Notebooks by Paul Valéry (vol 2). Berlin, New York, Brussels, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2000.
• Gifford P, Stimpson B, ed. Reading Paul Valéry: Universe in Mind. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999.