Churchill College Storey's Way 海角社区 CB3 0DS United Kingdom
Edmund Birch鈥檚 research interests are centred on the literature and cultural history of nineteenth-century France. His work focuses on the novel and the press in the context of the cultural and political history of the period. He has written on a range of authors including Honor茅 de Balzac, Delphine de Girardin, Alexandre Dumas, Gustave Flaubert and Guy de Maupassant, and is also interested in comparative literature, having published on the connections between British and French fiction. His first book听Fictions of the Press in Nineteenth-Century France听(2018) was a study of the French novel of journalism, and he is co-editor of听Literature and the Press in France, a special number of the journal听Dix-Neuf听(2017). This volume brings together researchers from Europe and North America in a series of essays on the relations between literary and journalistic culture across the nineteenth century. His articles have appeared in PMLA, French Studies, Romanic Review, Flaubert. Revue critique et g茅n茅tique and other journals. At present, he is working on a book about empire, nationhood and the press in the novels of Alexandre Dumas, and writing the introduction to a new edition of Flaubert鈥檚 Three Tales.
Edmund studied French and German at 海角社区, where he remained to do postgraduate research on French literature, completing a PhD in 2015. Before taking up his current post, he was a Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, 海角社区. He is co-editor of听Dix-Neuf, a Taylor & Francis journal dedicated to publishing new research on French literature, visual culture and cultural history, and has contributed to the BBC Radio programmes In Our Time and Opening Lines. Edmund鈥檚 research has earned prizes from the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Association and the Society of Dix-Neuvi茅mistes. In 2024, he was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for his work on Dumas.
鈥樷�漅oyaut茅 collective鈥�: Journaux et journalistes chez Delphine de Girardin鈥�, forthcoming in Unheimliche Codes, Kan盲le und Apparaturen: Medienreflexion und Mediengewalt in franzo虉sischsprachigen Literaturen, ed. by K. Hahn, M. Hausmann and M. Liebermann (Transcript Verlag, 2024)
鈥楯ournalism and Realist Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France鈥�, in听The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms, ed. by Katherine Bowers and Margarita Vaysman (Oxford University Press, 2024)
鈥楢lexandre Dumas p猫re, proph猫te de la d茅faite鈥�, in Lendemains de d茅faite : 1870-71 dans l鈥檌maginaire la IIIe R茅publique, ed. by M. Glaumaud-Carbonnier and N. White (Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 2024), pp. 173-84
鈥楢lexandre Dumas鈥檚 Odyssey: Race, Slavery, Narrative鈥�, PMLA, 137.5 (2022), 809-23
鈥楻eading the News, from Maupassant to Freud鈥�, French Studies, 76.1 (2022), 36-51
鈥樷�淟鈥檌mmobile et banal aspect des choses鈥�: Journalisme et d茅s艙uvrement dans L鈥櫭塪ucation sentimentale鈥�, Flaubert m茅diatique, ed. by Marie-Astrid Charlier and Marie-脠ve Th茅renty, Flaubert. Revue critique et g茅n茅tique, 22 (2021)
鈥楩riends Among Enemies: Dumas鈥檚 Musketeers鈥�, Romanic Review, 110 (2019), 111-30
Fictions of the Press in Nineteenth-Century France (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018); reviewed in French Studies,听H-France,听Modern & Contemporary France,听Modern Language Review,听La Revue d鈥檋istoire litt茅raire de la France
鈥楲iterary Machines: George Gissing鈥檚 Lost Illusions鈥�, in The Labour of Literature in Britain and France, 1830-1930: Authorial Work Ethics, ed. by Marcus Waithe and Claire White (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. 187-201
Literature and the Press in France, special number of Dix-Neuf, co-edited by Edmund Birch and Kate Rees, 21.4 (2017), 223-388
鈥樷�淟es suites des suites鈥�: Alexandre Dumas鈥檚 Le Comte de Monte-Cristo and the News鈥�, Dix-Neuf, 21 (2017), 297-311
鈥楳aupassant鈥檚 Bel-Ami and the Secrets of Actualite虂鈥�, Modern Language Review, 109 (2014), 996-1012
鈥楰eys: Press and Privacy in the Goncourts鈥� Charles Demailly鈥�, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 42 (2014), 206-20
Book reviews in French Studies, Journal of European Studies, Modern Language Review, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Revue d鈥檋istoire litt茅raire de la France, Romanic Review
