Vita

 

Dr. Michael Eberle-Sinatra

Département d’études anglaises

Université de Montréal
CP 6128, Station Centre-ville
Montréal, Quebec H3C3J7 - Canada
Tel.: (514) 343-6149 - Fax: (514) 343-6443

michael.eberle.sinatra@umontreal.ca

Last Revised: July 10, 2009

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Education

2001----D.Phil. English Literature, University of Oxford (UK)

1996----MSt. Research Methods in English (modern period), University of Oxford (UK)

1995----MA in the Literary Culture of the Romantic Period, University of York (UK)

1994----Masters of English Literature, Université d’Orléans (France)

1993----Licence ès Lettres - Anglo-American Literature, Université d’Orléans (France)

1992----Advanced Certificate in English Studies, Aston University (UK)

1992----Diplôme d’Études Universitaire Général, Université d’Orléans (France)


Post-Graduate Appointments

2006-----------Associate Professor, English Department, Université de Montréal (Canada)

2001-2006----Assistant Professor, English Department, Université de Montréal (Canada)

1999-2001----Research Associate, Northrop Frye Centre, University of Toronto (Canada)

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Grants

  1. •Fall 2009-Winter 2011----“Technologies, médias et représentations en Angleterre et en France au dix-neuvième siècle”, Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société et culture (FQRSC), Programme de soutien à l’innovation et à la structuration: Soutien aux équipes de recherche (équipes en émergence), team leader (17 members), $51,709.

  2. •Fall 2009-Winter 2012----“Hypertexte et performance : une réplique résonante à Witchcraft de Joanna Baillie”, FQRSC, Programme de soutien à l’innovation et à la structuration: Appui à la recherche-création, team member (30%) (team leader: Louis Patrick Leroux), $146,070.

  3. •Spring 2009-Spring 2016----“Implementing New Knowledge Environment (INKE)”, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Major Collaborative Research Initiative, collaborator (team leader: Ray Siemens; 35 researchers and collaborators), $2,484,500.

  4. •Winter-Spring 2009----“The Academic Capacity of Humanities Computing in Canada”, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Presidential Fund (2 co-investigators), $14,950.

  5. •Fall 2008-Winter 2011----Aid to Scholarly Journals Program of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net. $88,500.

  6. •Fall 2007-Winter 2010----SSHRC Standard Research Grant. “Leigh Hunt as Victorian Writer, 1830-1860”. $85,750.

  7. •Winter 2007-Summer 2011----Designated Project Leader, Synergies: The Canadian Information Network for Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities, National Platforms Program of the Canada Foundation for Innovation. $13,031,346.

  8. •Fall 2002-Winter 2008. Fond québécois de recherche sur la société et culture (FQRSC), Programme des regroupements stratégiques. Centre de recherche sur l’intermédialité. $882,800. [10% as regular member, 2005-2008]

  9. •Fall 2006----Principal Investigator (3 co-investigators), SSHRC “Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada” Grant. “Adaptation(s): Transferts et Société / Adaptation(s): Transfer and Society”. $18,000.

  10. •Summer-Fall 2006----SSHRC Internal Grant. “The Strange Case of Adaptation: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’s Queer Sexuality”. $4,000.

  11. •Summer 2005-Spring 2006----Designated Project Leader and Steering Committee Member, Synergies: The Canadian Information Network for Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities, preparation for a request for funding, SSHRC Presidential Fund and Canada Foundation for Innovation. $145,000.

  12. •Summer-Fall 2005----SSHRC Internal Grant. “Queering Adaptations of Nineteenth-Century Novels”. $4,000.

  13. •Fall 2003-Winter 2007----SSHRC Standard Research Grant. “Lectures dialogiques des romantismes français et anglais entre 1780 et 1840”. $54,793.

  14. •Fall 2003-Winter 2007---- FQRSC Programme établissement de nouveaux chercheurs-créateurs Grant. “D’un romantisme à l’autre: Dialogues littéraires entre la France et l’Angleterre, 1780-1840”. $50,213.

  15. •Summer-Fall 2003----SSHRC Internal Grant. “Joanna Baillie et le théâtre du romantisme anglais”, $4,000.

  16. •Summer-Fall 2002----SSHRC Internal Grant. “Un nouveau regard sur les littératures romantiques anglo-française: Lectures intertextuelles de poèmes, romans, et pièces de théâtre écrits entre 1780 et 1840 ”. $4,200.

  17. •2000----Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr., Research Grant, Keats-Shelley Association of America. $3,750.

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Publications


Book

  1. •Leigh Hunt and the London Literary Scene: A Reception History of his Major Works, 1805-1828. London : Routledge, 2005. ISBN 0-415-31676-6. [Reviews published in Keats-Shelley Journal, European Romantic Review, The Wordsworth Circle, University of Toronto Quarterly, and Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840]


Editorial Work

  1. •Editor. Matthew Lewis, The Monk, A Longman Cultural Edition. New York: Longman, forthcoming 2012. ISBN 0-321-27591-8. (A)

  2. •General Editor, with Thomas C. Crochunis. The Broadview Anthology of British Women Playwrights, 1777-1843. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, forthcoming 2010.  (A)

  3. •Guest Editor of the special issue “Queer Film Adaptation”, Gothic Studies 7.2 (Spring 2006).

  4. •Guest Editor, with Joel Faflak, of the special issue “Deviance and Defiance”, European Romantic Review 17.2 (Spring 2006).

  5. •General Editor, with Robert Morrison. The Selected Writings of Leigh Hunt, in Six Volumes. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2003. ISBN 1-851-96714-1. [Reviews published in Times Literary Supplement, The London Review of Books, University of Toronto Quarterly, Studies in  English Literature, Victorian Periodical Review and BARS Bulletin]

  6. •Editor. Mary Shelley’s Fictions: From Frankenstein to Falkner. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. ISBN 0-333-77106-0. [Reviews published in The London Review of Books, Studies in Romanticism, The Wordsworth Circle, Science Fiction Studies and Romantic Circles Reviews]


Journals

  1. •Co-editor. Digital Studies / Le champs numérique. ISSN 1918-3666 (Summer 2009- ).

  2. •Founder and co-Editor. Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (RaVoN). ISSN 1916-1441 (August 2007- ).

  3. •Founding Editor. Romanticism on the Net (RoN). ISSN 1467-1255 (February 1996-May 2007).


Electronic Projects

  1. •General Editor and founder, with Thomas C. Crochunis. British Women Playwrights around 1800. (September 1998- ).

  2. •Founding Editor. The Leigh Hunt Archive. (July 2007- ).

  3. •Guest Editor, with Laura Mandell. “Contemporary Culture in the Romantic Classroom”. Romantic Circles – Romantic Praxis, February 2002.

  4. •Editor, with Laura Mandell. “Romantic Circles Features & Events”. Romantic Circles (2001-4).

  5. •Editor. “Mary Shelley’s ‘The Mortal Immortal’”. Romantic Circles – Electronic Editions, 1997.


Book chapters

  1. •“Performing Leigh Hunt’s 1840 Play A Legend of Florence”. In Home and Abroad: Transnational England, 1750-1850. Eds. Monika Class and Terry F. Robinson. New Castle: Cambridge Scholar’s Press, 2009. pp. 92-110.

  2. •“Gender, Authorship and Male Domination: Mary Shelley’s Limited Freedom in Frankenstein and The Last Man”. In Mary Shelley’s Fictions: From Frankenstein to Falkner. Ed. Michael Eberle-Sinatra. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. pp. 95-108.

  3. •“The Matrix: The Way of the Future? Replacing Neuromancer within the Postmodern Condition”. In Perspectives on the Canadian Fantastic. Ed. Allan Weiss. Toronto: ACCSFF, 1998. pp. 111-19.


Peer-reviewed Articles

  1. •with Joel Faflak, “Deviance and Defiance: Introduction”. European Romantic Review 17.2 (Spring 2006): 133-8.

  2. •“Readings of Homosexuality in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Four Film Adaptations”. Gothic Studies 7.2 (Spring 2006): 185-202.

  3. •“Exploring Gothic Sexuality”. Gothic Studies 7.2 (Spring 2006): 123-6. 

  4. •“On Watching rather than Reading Count Basil”. European Romantic Review 15.2 (Spring 2004): 364.

  5. •with Thomas C. Crochunis, “Putting Plays (and More) in Cyberspace: An Overview of the British Women Playwrights around 1800 Project”. European Romantic Review 14.1 (Winter 2003) : 117-31.

  6. •“Quelques réflexions sur l’adaptation cinématographique du roman de Monique Proulx, Le sexe des étoiles”. Essays on Canadian Writing 76 (Spring 2002): 139-48.

  7. •“From Dante to the Romantics: The Reception History of Leigh Hunt’s The Story of Rimini”. The Charles Lamb Bulletin 116 (October 2001): 120-43.

  8. •“A Revaluation of Leigh Hunt’s Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries”. Byron Journal XVI (Summer 2001): 17-26.

  9. •“Introducing Critical Essays: Leigh Hunt and Theatrical Criticism at the beginning of the Nineteenth Century”. Keats-Shelley Journal L (Summer 2001): 100-23.

  10. •“The Flying Mariner? Richard Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman as the Concluding Part to Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”. The Coleridge Bulletin 16 (Winter 2000): 102-8.

  11. •“‘I will live beyond this life’: Shelley and his Reviewers”. Keats-Shelley Review 13 (1999): 88-104.

  12. •“‘A natural piety’: Leigh Hunt’s The Religion of the Heart”. Allen Review 19 (1998): 18-21.

  13. •“On the Other Side of the Anubis Gate: Coleridge and Science Fiction”. La Questiona Romantica 5 (Spring 1998): 165-71.

  14. •“Science, Gender and Otherness in Shelley’s Frankenstein and Kenneth Branagh’s Film Adaptation”. European Romantic Review 9.2 (Spring 1998): 253-70.

  15. •“Shelley’s Editing Process in the Preface to Epipsychidion”. Keats-Shelley Review 11 (1997): 167-81.

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Presentations


Guest speaker

  1. •Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia: “Popular Culture and Parody: Mixing Media and Humor in Joss Whedon’s Fray and Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along-Blog” (July 9, 2009) [As UBC Summer Scholar in Residence]

  2. •Plenary Speaker, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria: “Synergies and the Changing Face of Digital Humanities in Canada” (May 29, 2008).

• Workshop “Project Management”, organized by Lynne Siemens, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria (May 29, 2008).

• University of Toronto Libraries: “On Synergies and its Impact on Social Sciences and Humanities Research” (January 17, 2008).

• Round-table “Synergies: Exploring the Possibilities for Journal Editors”, Canadian Association of Learned Journals, University of Saskatoon (May 31, 2007).

  1. •Workshop “Research and Training Perspectives on the Canadian Digital Information Strategy”, École de biblioéconomie et sciences de l’information, Université de Montréal (May 9, 2007)

  2. •Presidents’ Meeting on Open Access in Canada, organized by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Ottawa (March 22, 2007)

  3. •Electronic Text Centre, University of New Brunswick: “Synergies: An Overview” (February 27, 2007)

  4. •Meeting of the Open Access committee of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Montreal (February 9, 2007)

  5. •English Department, University of Calgary: “Writing and Performing Leigh Hunt’s 1840 play A Legend of Florence” (January 10, 2007).

  6. •Guest Speaker, “Home and Abroad: Transnational England, 1750-1850”, St. Catherine’s College, Oxford : “Leigh Hunt and the Drama of Nationalism in A Legend of Florence” (July 28, 2006).

  7. •Conference “Humanities Journals: Present and Future”, organized by Ralph Cohen and the academic journal New Literary History, University of Virginia (April 9, 2005).

  8. •Centre de recherche sur l'intermédialité, Université de Montréal: “The Hours : du roman au roman en passant par le film” (October 22, 2003).

  9. •Plenary Speaker, The Jane Austen Society of America (Montreal region) Spring 2003 Gala: “Filming Sexuality: On Adapting Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park” (June 14, 2003).

  10. •Synergies Canada Symposium, organized under the aegis of SSHRC, Simon Fraser University (March 20-21, 2003).

  11. •English Department, University of Toronto: “Sex in Jane Austen’s Emma?!” (March 3, 2003).

  12. •English Department, Comparative Literature Department, and the “Textual Studies” program, University of Washington: “Cyberspace and Romantic Plays: From Innocence to Experience” (April 26, 2002).

  13. •English Department, Concordia University: “Totally Clueless: Homosexuality in Jane Austen’s Emma” (March 27, 2002).

  14. •with Dino Felluga, at the English Department of Miami University, Ohio: “Cyberspace, Postmodernity, and Cultural Studies: The Double-Bind of Contemporary Thought” (November 12, 2001).

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Professional Activities


  1. •President (French) and member of executive committee (Summer 2009-Spring 2012); vice-president (Outreach) (Summer 2008-Spring 2009) Society for Digital Humanities.

• Member of executive committee (2007-2008); secretary-treasurer (2008-2010)

Canadian Association of Learned Journals.

• Founding member of executive committee and co-chair of the editorial board Victorian

Literature (2003-2008); co-chair of the editorial board Romantic Literature (2008-2013) of the project NINES - Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century

Electronic Scholarship, funded by a Mellon Achievement Award of Jerome McGann

(University of Virginia).

• Founding Member of executive committee (2002- ) North American Victorian Studies

Association.

• Treasurer and member of executive committee (2004-2006) Canadian Comparative Literature

Association.

• Representative for Journal Editors in the administrative committee (2005-2007); Member of editorial committee (2003-7) Érudit Consortium.

• Member of editorial committee (1997- ) Romantic Circles.

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[See my full CV (SinatraCV.pdf) for a complete list of reviews and conference papers, as well as my undergraduate and graduate courses, and the names of my current and past graduate students (16 PhD students and 9 MA students)]