Jade Elizabeth French
Biographic Data
| ID | 3876144 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jade Elizabeth French |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jade Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | French |
| SIGNATURE | FRENCH J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loughborough University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3002-7410 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Troubling timing
Curating the Health Humanities
This reflective review examines the curatorial possibilities of bringing literary scholars, archivists, makers, and artists into dialogue through an exhibition organized by the Health Humanities Research Group at Loughborough University in 2023. We reflect on how material culture, visual art, historical objects, and archives are part of our practice as literary scholars and the collaborative potential this engenders. The objects on display ranged…
Introduction to Special Issue on Narratives of Care, Caring Materials, and Materializing Care in the Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-first Centuries
Modernist Beauty Cultures
This article explores Mina Loy's ambivalent responses to youth culture and the twentieth-century beauty industry through her poetry, pamphlets, and anti-ageing inventions. The article opens with a close reading of the gendered economy of ageing found in Loy's early poems, before putting Loy's inventions in dialogue with another modern woman – beauty entrepreneur, Elizabeth Arden – drawing connections between their modernist aesthetic strategies t…
Contradictory Late Styles in Djuna Barnes's Poetic Cycles, 1969-82
Focusing on examples of Djuna Barnes's late published poetry-"Quarry" (1969), "Rite of Spring" (1982), and Creatures in an Alphabet (1982)-this article considers the contradictory ways these poems engage with theories of late style. Barnes's late output offers a unique and somewhat ambivalent case study for examining how the privileging of difficulty and discordance are met and informed by the lived realities of aging and longevity. Paying attent…
Through the Utopian Lens of Opportunity
“But with this I’m embodied”
Questions of image were intensely important to H.D. Whether through the precise Imagism of her early poetry or her later work in cinema, H.D.’s career involved a lifelong engagement with image-making. But one important aspect of this has been overlooked: H.D.’s photographic portraiture. This article reveals that photography was central to H.D.’s authorial self-fashioning. Our article analyzes and contextualizes H.D.’s public photographic portrait…
Women Modernists and the Decorative
(2021). Women Modernists and the Decorative: An Introduction. Women: A Cultural Review: Vol. 32, WOMEN MODERNISTS AND THE DECORATIVE: DISSIDENT INTERSECTIONS. Guest-edited by Lottie Whalen and Jade Elizabeth French, pp. 1-7
Still Tickin ’
(2021). Still Tickin’: Betye Saar, Ageing and Assemblage. Women: A Cultural Review: Vol. 32, WOMEN MODERNISTS AND THE DECORATIVE: DISSIDENT INTERSECTIONS. Guest-edited by Lottie Whalen and Jade Elizabeth French, pp. 70-85
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Through the Utopian Lens of Opportunity
“But with this I’m embodied”
Questions of image were intensely important to H.D. Whether through the precise Imagism of her early poetry or her later work in cinema, H.D.’s career involved a lifelong engagement with image-making. But one important aspect of this has been overlooked: H.D.’s photographic portraiture. This article reveals that photography was central to H.D.’s authorial self-fashioning. Our article analyzes and contextualizes H.D.’s public photographic portrait…
Women Modernists and the Decorative
(2021). Women Modernists and the Decorative: An Introduction. Women: A Cultural Review: Vol. 32, WOMEN MODERNISTS AND THE DECORATIVE: DISSIDENT INTERSECTIONS. Guest-edited by Lottie Whalen and Jade Elizabeth French, pp. 1-7
Still Tickin ’
(2021). Still Tickin’: Betye Saar, Ageing and Assemblage. Women: A Cultural Review: Vol. 32, WOMEN MODERNISTS AND THE DECORATIVE: DISSIDENT INTERSECTIONS. Guest-edited by Lottie Whalen and Jade Elizabeth French, pp. 70-85
Contradictory Late Styles in Djuna Barnes's Poetic Cycles, 1969-82
Focusing on examples of Djuna Barnes's late published poetry-"Quarry" (1969), "Rite of Spring" (1982), and Creatures in an Alphabet (1982)-this article considers the contradictory ways these poems engage with theories of late style. Barnes's late output offers a unique and somewhat ambivalent case study for examining how the privileging of difficulty and discordance are met and informed by the lived realities of aging and longevity. Paying attent…
Modernist Beauty Cultures
This article explores Mina Loy's ambivalent responses to youth culture and the twentieth-century beauty industry through her poetry, pamphlets, and anti-ageing inventions. The article opens with a close reading of the gendered economy of ageing found in Loy's early poems, before putting Loy's inventions in dialogue with another modern woman – beauty entrepreneur, Elizabeth Arden – drawing connections between their modernist aesthetic strategies t…
Curating the Health Humanities
This reflective review examines the curatorial possibilities of bringing literary scholars, archivists, makers, and artists into dialogue through an exhibition organized by the Health Humanities Research Group at Loughborough University in 2023. We reflect on how material culture, visual art, historical objects, and archives are part of our practice as literary scholars and the collaborative potential this engenders. The objects on display ranged…
Introduction to Special Issue on Narratives of Care, Caring Materials, and Materializing Care in the Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-first Centuries
Troubling timing
Art (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · History (2 works)