Lise Jaillant

Candidate statement

Lise Jaillant, Associate professor at Loughborough University, UK. After studying in Paris and London, I received my PhD in English and Book History from the University of British Columbia in 2013. My latest monograph is Cheap Modernism: Expanding Markets, Publishers’ Series and the Avant-Garde (Edinburgh UP, 2017) and I also edited the collection Publishing Modernist Fiction and Poetry (Edinburgh UP, 2019). My main research interests are the history of publishing (especially book publishers) and Digital Humanities focusing particularly on digital archives. Recently, I have been collaborating with professionals in Libraries, Archives and Museums to make digital archives more accessible. For more information, see www.lisejaillant.com. I first joined SHARP in 2010 when I was still a PhD student, and since 2014, I have been the SHARP Liaison Officer at the Modern Language Association (in charge of organising our guaranteed session at the annual MLA convention and joint sessions with other scholarly organisations). It would be an honour and a pleasure to serve SHARP as Director of Electronic Resources. This role requires fairly high technical skills, and my work in Digital Humanities will be useful to enhance SHARP’s digital resources. I would be happy to take charge of website updates and social media. I think it is crucial to strengthen our links with non-academics (including book publishers and dealers, librarians, archivists, and museum professionals) as well as independent scholars, and our communication channels can be used to foster this welcoming environment for anyone interested in the history of authorship, reading and publishing.