Ruth Clemens
Postdoctoral researcher
- Name
- Dr. R.A. Clemens
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2165
- r.a.clemens@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-3937-4627
Ruth Alison Clemens is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. Her current research project is titled 'Posthuman Music Machines: Literature in the Age of the Pianola' and is part of the NWO Startersbeurs project 'Tracing Players Playing Traces: Non/Human Music in Modern and Contemporary Literature' led by her colleague Dr Daný van Dam. 'Posthuman Music Machines' studies literature and culture from the age of the player piano (1896-1929) in order to understand how literary engagements with this new media technology shaped and were shaped by the wider cultural attitudes to automatic music. Dr Clemens specialises in critical approaches to multidisciplinary modern and contemporary literary studies. Her research expertise includes transnational modernism; book history and media materiality; posthuman bodies, technologies, and environments; experimental forms; and literary multilingualism and translation.
More information about Ruth Clemens
Fields of interest
- Literary and cultural modernism
- Modernist poetry and poetics
- Critical posthumanism in relation to bodies, technology, and environment
- Paratext, design, and materiality
- Book history and publishing
- Experimental literary practice
- Intermedial literary studies, especially music and literature and technology and literature
- Translation, multilingualism, and transnationalism
- Critical and postcolonial approaches
- The work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
- Disability studies, especially neurodiversity
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2015–2020 PhD, University of Leeds, UK
2014–2015 MA Comparative Literature, University College London, UK
2009–2012 BA (Hons) English Literature, University of Salford, UK
Employment
2024–present Leiden University, Postdoctoral Researcher
2022–2024 Leiden University, Lecturer in Modern Anglophone Literature, Film, and Culture
2022–2023 University of Glasgow, Postdoctoral Research Assistant
2019–2023 Utrecht University, Lecturer in Literary Studies
2017–2018 Utrecht University, Visiting Research Fellow
2017–2017 University of Leeds, Visiting Lecturer in Comparative Literature
2016–2017 Leeds Trinity University, Visiting Lecturer in English Literature
Postdoctoral researcher
- Faculty of Humanities
- Centre for the Arts in Society
- Moderne Engelstalige letterkunde
- Clemens R.A. (2024), ‘A vast sequence of imponderable beings’: Becoming-imperceptible in The Third Policeman and Cees Nooteboom’s The Following Story. In: Ebury K., Fagan P. & Greaney J. (Eds.), Flann O'Brien and the Nonhuman Environments, animals, machines. Cork: Cork University Press.
- Clemens R.A. (2024), Afterword: swamp boy summer, Soapbox 5: 289-310.
- Clemens R.A. & Flannery B. (2023), Soy Boy, Meme Ecology, and the Fascist Imaginary. In: Braidotti R. & Dolphijn R. (Eds.), Deleuze and Guattari and Fascism: Edinburgh University Press.
- Clemens R.A. (2022), Linguistic Incompossibility. In: Braidotti R., Klumbyte G. & Jones E. (Eds.), More Posthuman Glossary: Bloomsbury Academic.
- Adkins P., Clemens R.A. & Ryan D. (2022), Introduction: reading Braidotti / reading Woolf, Comparative Critical Studies 19(2): 115-127.
- Clemens R.A. (2022), ‘Languages are so like their boots’: linguistic incompossibility in Flush, Comparative Critical Studies 19(2): 259-280.
- Clemens R.A. (2022), Between Anxiety and Utopia: Eliot and Europe, The T.S. Eliot Studies Annual 4(1): 253-263.
- Clemens R.A. (2022), Bombast and sesquipedalian words: translation, mistranslation, and the epigraph to The Waste Land, Modernist Cultures 17(1): 109-126.
- Clemens R.A & Casey M. (2022), Viral Temporalities: Literatures of Disease and Posthuman Conceptions of Time. In: Ağın B. & Horzum Ş. (Eds.), Posthuman Pathogenesis: Contagion in Literature, Arts, and Media. Routledge Studies in Literature and Health Humanities. London: Routledge.
- Clemens R.A. (2021), Review of: Braidotti R. & Hlavajova M. (2018), Poshuman glossary: Bloomsbury. Comparative Critical Studies 18(1): 99-102.
- Clemens R.A. (20 January 2020), The nomadic footnote: multilingualism and transnationalism in Modernist Paratexts (Dissertatie, Leeds Trinity, University of Leeds). Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Taylor-Barry J., Hibbitt R.
- Clemens R.A. (2018), “Making flowers”: the first English translation of a short story by Dutch modernist Carry van Bruggen, Feminist Modernist Studies 1(3): 336-347.