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Dr Michael Sayeau
Email: m.sayeau@ucl.ac.uk
External phone: 020 7679 3121
Internal phone: 33121
Education and Experience
Michael Sayeau received his BA from Amherst College,
and an MA and PhD from Princeton University. His doctoral research
dealt
with the everyday in modern and proto-modernist literature, examining
in particular the relationship between narration and temporality
in the works of Flaubert, H.G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, and James
Joyce. Before coming to UCL in 2008, he taught at SUNY Buffalo.
Research
Michael is at work on two major projects. The first
is a revision and expansion into book form of his PhD thesis on
the everyday,
examining the relationship between the narrative rendering
of the temporality of lived experience and life stories and
wider developments
in the social conception of time. [Life
Stories] He is also
starting
another book project which will examine the deployment of
simplicity as an aesthetic category in the modernist novel
and poetry,
as well as in the period's theoretical work on literature,
art, and culture. It will likely include chapters on William
Morris,
James
Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound, Basic English, Otto Neurath,
Roland Barthes, and others.
Selected Publications
Articles
‘“
Love at a Distance (Bloomism)”: The Chance Encounter and
the Democratization of Modernist Style’, James Joyce Quarterly,
44.2 (2007): 247-62.
‘
Work, Unemployment, and the Exhaustion of Fiction in Heart of Darkness’ Novel:
A Forum on Fiction, 39.3 (Summer 2006): 337-60.
‘
H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine and the “Odd Consequence” of
Progress’, Contemporary Justice Review, December 2005, 431-46.
‘
The Voice of the Plague: Disorder, Order, and Talk In Daniel Defoe’s
A Journal of the Plague Year’, Literary London: Interdisciplinary
Studies in the Representation of London, http://www.literarylondon.org/london-journal/september2003/Sayeau.html.
