I am Associate Professor of Nineteenth-Century British Literature, with a specialization in British Romantic literature. After earning a D.Phil. at Oxford and a period as Research Associate at the Northrop Frye Centre, University of Toronto, I joined the Département d’études anglaises at the Université de Montréal in June 2001. My publications include two dozen articles and essays on Romantic authors in such journals as European Romantic Review, Byron Journal, Keats-Shelley Journal, and Keats-Shelley Review. Routledge published my monograph, Leigh Hunt and the London Literary Scene, in 2005. Much of my work has been editorial and collaborative. I am the editor of Mary Shelley’s Fictions: From Frankenstein to Falkner (Macmillan, 2000), the general editor, with Thomas Crochunis, of the forthcoming Broadview Anthology of British Women Playwrights, 1777-1843 (Broadview Press, 2009), and one of the general editors of the six-volume edition of The Selected Writings of Leigh Hunt (Pickering & Chatto, 2003). I am also contracted by Longman to prepare a critical edition of Matthew Lewis’s Gothic novel, The Monk, to be published in 2012.

I am founding editor of the electronic peer-reviewed journal, Romanticism on the Net (founded in 1996 in Oxford and now hosted at the Université de Montréal), which expanded into the Victorian period in 2007 and changed its name to Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (RaVoN); the journal is now funded by SSHRC. I am also the founding editor of the Leigh Hunt Archive, and the web-based project, British Women Playwrights around 1800 (co-founded with Thomas Crochunis in 1998). I am the President of Synergies: The Canadian Information Network for Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities, funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation to the order of $13 millions in their program ‘Knowledge Management Resources for the Human and Social Sciences’. (You can watch a video of my remarks made at the CFI award ceremony on 8 February 2007, as well as a plenary lecture on Synergies I delivered on 29 May 2008 at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute.) I am the President (French) of the Society for Digital Humanities, and the secretary-treasurer of the Canadian Association of Learned Journals.

I am currently at work on two book projects: Queering Adaptations of Nineteenth-Century Novels and Leigh Hunt as Victorian Writer, 1830-1860. The former project deals with 20th-century interpretations of seven novels published during the nineteenth century through the medium of cinema and queer theory (this project has been awarded two small SSHRC grants). Leigh Hunt as Victorian Writer, 1830-1860 takes up Hunt’s life and career after 1828 until the publication of the second edition of his Autobiography in 1860, a year after his death in 1859. A sequel to my first monograph Leigh Hunt and the London Literary Scene, this new project was awarded a standard research grant from SSHRC in the spring of 2007. I am also finishing some articles coming out of my work on a previous project entitiled “D’un romantisme à l’autre: Dialogues littéraires entre la France et l’Angleterre, 1780-1840”. This project considers the concept of literary dialogues between several Romantic authors from France and England between 1780 and 1840. (I was awarded two standard research grants from Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société et culture (FQRSC) and SSHRC in the fall of 2003 in order to complete the research on this work.)

I am the team leader of the FQRSC-funded research project ‘Technologies, Media, and Representations in Nineteenth-Century France and England’. The two years of funding from the Soutien aux équipes de recherche - Équipe en émergence program will allow for a series of informal meetings and four 2-day workshops between 2009 and 2011 for all the members of our team (17 researchers from Canada, the US, and the UK). I am also a co-applicant in the successful FQRSC grant application to the équipe recherche-création ‘Hypertexte et performance: une réplique résonante à Witchcraft de Joanna Baillie’ led by Patrick Leroux.

I am a founding member of the steering committee of Nines (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship), and of the Executive Council of the North American Victorian Studies Association. I am also a research associate and a member of the scientific committee of the Centre de Recherche sur l'Intermédialité, based at the Université de Montréal. 

Over the last six years, I have been invited to lecture on Romantic authors and on my work on digital humanities at various universities in North America and Europe, including the University of Washington, Victoria University, University of Oxford, University of New Brunswick, University of Iowa, Concordia University, University of Calgary, and the University of Toronto. I was one of the plenary speakers at the annual Jane Austen conference in Montreal in June 2003. I was also one of the plenary speakers at the conference ‘Home & Abroad: Transnational England, 1750-1850’ in Oxford in July 2006. I have co-organized several conferences over the last few years, including recently the 2005 joint meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism and the International Gothic Association ‘Deviance and Defiance’ (IGA-NASSR2005.pdf) and the 2006 meeting of the Center for Research on Intermediality ‘Adaptation(s): Transfers and Society’ (CRI2006.pdf). I am one of the organizers of the 2010 NAVSA conference to take place in the fall of 2010 in Montreal.

A Vita is available online, along with a full c.v in pdf format in English (SinatraCV.pdf) and French (SinatraCVfrancais.pdf).