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Ruth Clemens
Lecturer
- Name
- Dr. R.A. Clemens
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2165
- r.a.clemens@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-3937-4627
Ruth Clemens is lectures in Anglophone literature, film, and culture at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. She specialises in critical approaches in multidisciplinary modern and contemporary literary studies. Her research expertise includes modernism, book history and materiality, the posthuman in medical and environmental humanities, experimental forms, and multilingual writing.
More information about Ruth Clemens
Fields of interest
- Modernism
- Posthumanism
- Paratext and materiality
- Experimental writing
- Translation and multilingualism
- Postcolonial and queer feminist approaches
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
2022–present 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
Lecturer
- Faculty of Humanities
- Centre for the Arts in Society
- Moderne Engelstalige letterkunde
- Clemens R.A. (2022), Bombast and sesquipedalian words: translation, mistranslation, and the epigraph to The Waste Land, Modernist Cultures 17(1): 109-126.
- Adkins P., Clemens R.A. & Ryan D. (2022), Introduction: reading Braidotti / reading Woolf, Comparative Critical Studies 19(2): 115-127.
- 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), ‘Languages are so like their boots’: linguistic incompossibility in Flush, Comparative Critical Studies 19(2): 259-280.
- 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, Comparative Critical Studies 18(1): 99-102.
- 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.