Dr Jill Fell

BA (Bristol), PhD (Kent).

Associate Research Fellow

Alfred Jarry; 1890s avant-garde art and literature, particularly Paul Gauguin and the Nabis; symbolist, dada and surrealist art and literature; avant-garde dance from the 1890s to 1990s; marionettes and acrobatics.

Publications

Books

• Alfred Jarry, Critical Lives series, Reaktion Books, 2010.
  
• Alfred Jarry. An Imagination in Revolt, Madison, Teaneck, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005.

Articles

• ‘Alfred Jarry’s alternative cubists’ French Cultural Studies, Vol 6, Pt  2, no 17, June 1995, pp. 249-69.
• ‘La Roue de Sainte Catherine: Jarry, Breton et la méthode paranoïa- critique’, Colloque Jarry, Centenaire d’Ubu, Paris, Société des Amis d’Alfred Jarry, 1998, pp. 12-25.
• ‘Le fil de soie and le fil de fer: Alfred Jarry, Nabi puppeteer”, La Chouette, no. 19, 1998, pp. 118-132.
• De la Cosmographie Universelle par Sébastien Münster:  un éclairage sur le contenu thématique de l’oeuvre de Jarry? L’Étoile-Absinthe, nos. 79-80, 1998, pp. 26-28.
• ‘Les remaniements de Jarry au texte de Peer Gynt’, L’Étoile-Absinthe, nos. 79-80, 1998, pp. 21-25.
• ‘Les sources iconographiques de l’image du Père’, Monitoires du Cymbalum Pataphysicum, no. 51, mars 1999.
• ‘The Deceptive Images of Alfred Jarry:  lost, found and invented portraits by Beardsley, Rousseau and Rippl-Ronaï’, Word and Image, vol 15 no 2, April-June 1999, pp. 190-198.
• ‘Sophie Täuber:  the masked Dada dancer’, WOMEN IN THE PERFORMING ARTS, Forum for Modern Language Studies, June 1999, pp. 270-285.
• ‘Dancing under their own gaze: Mallarmé, Jarry and Valéry’, Journal of European Studies, June, 1999, pp. 133-155.
• ‘Ubu:  marionnette à fils/Ubu:  marionnette à gaine’,L’Étoile-Absinthe, nos. 83-84, 1999, pp. 80-83.
• ‘Jarry, Marey, les mares et l’amour’, L’Étoile-Absinthe, nos. 83-84, 1999, pp. 84-86.
• ‘La danse de Mnester’, L’Étoile-Absinthe, nos. 91-92, 2001, pp. 39-46.

Book chapters

• ‘Breton, Jarry and the Genealogy of Paranoia-Critique’, in André Breton:  The Power of Language, ed. Ramona Fotiade,  Exeter, Elm Bank Publishing, 2000, pp. 111-123.
• ‘Alfred Jarry, Déformateur’ in Jarry, Le Monstre 1900: Jarry, Das Monster 1900, ed. Beate Ochsner, Aachen, Shaker Verlag, 2002, pp. 66-76.
• ‘Alfred Jarry’s Messaline: a significant indicator of changing tastes in dance performance in 1900,’ in Sur quel pied danser? Danse et littérature, sous la direction de Edward Nye,  Actes du colloque organisé par Hélène Stafford, Michael Freeman et Edward Nye en avril 2003, à Lincoln College, Oxford, Amsterdam and New York, Rodopi, 2005, pp. 215-229.
• “Exercises In Wood And Verse: Alfred Jarry’s Debts to Max Elskamp and Émile Verhaeren,” in La Belgique entre deux siècles: Laboratoire de la modernité, eds. Nathalie Aubert et Pierre-Philippe Fraiture, Peter Lang, 2006.
• “Alfred Jarry’s Ubu marionette: its genesis and multiple progeny,” in New Surrealist Research, eds. Sharon-Michi Kusunoki and David Lomas, Manchester University Press, 2006.
• ‘Alain Jans et Richart Gheym : Les artistes « inconnus » de L’Ymagier,’ La Licorne, septembre 2006.

Reviews

• Écrire la danse ed. Alain Montandon published in Modern Language Review  96.3.2001, pp. 846-7.
• Ben Fisher, The Pataphysician’s Library, Liverpool University Press in  French Studies, January, 2003.

Participation in workshops and unpublished conference papers

• Institut International de la Marionnette, Charleville-Mézières Corps propres, corps étrangers, corps virtuels, (1998)
• Literary Representations of Art  -  Alfred Jarry, déformateur  The University of Bristol Centre for the Study of Visual and Literary Cultures in France, (2001)
• 1st Annual Conference of the Society of Dix-NeuviémistesPaul Gauguin’s self-justification – the conflicts and contradictions of  “Notes éparses sans suite,” Queen Mary, University of London, (2002)
• French Art in Narrative and Drama from 1820 – “Mapping the artistic territories of Beardsley, Bernard and Gauguin – Gestes et opinions du docteur Faustroll, pataphysicien by Alfred Jarry”, The University of Bristol Centre for the Study of Visual and Literary Cultures in France,  (2005)
• 4th Annual Conference of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes, Birth and Death/La Naissance et la Mort – ‘Paul Gauguin’s Ia Orana Maria and Max Elskamp’s Salutations dont d’angéliques: poetic matchmaking by Alfred Jarry,’ Queen’s University Belfast (2005)
• Pinocchio and the Mechanical Body, ‘The Manufacture of a Modern Puppet Type: The Anatomy of Alfred Jarry’s Monsieur Ubu and its Significance,’ Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London, School of Advanced Study (2006).