A native of Hertfordshire, England, Dr Jeremy Worth has lived in Canada since the 1990s and holds advanced degrees from Queen’s and Western Universities in Ontario.
His research interests, based primarily upon close readings of 19th-century French novelistic prose, include the questions of identity and becoming. In addition to articles in his field in journals such as Les Cahiers naturalistes and Excavatio, he has authored chapters in book volumes published in Canada, France, and the United Kingdom. Recent publications include the chapter “Entre le néant et l’immortalité : l’éphémère humain inscrit dans les lettres de Zola” in « Au courant de la plume ». Zola et l'épistolaire (eds. Geneviève de Viveiros and Soundouss El Kettani, Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2018) and the co-edited volume The Unknowable in Literature and Material Culture: Essays in Honour of Clive Thomson (eds. Margot Irvine and Jeremy Worth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019). He also contributed eleven entries on French, British and American women scholars and philosophers to the Dictionnaire universel des créatrices (eds Béatrice Didier, Antoinette Fouque and Mireille Calle-Gruber, Paris: Des Femmes, 2013).
Jeremy Worth has presented at over thirty conferences, colloquia and academic meetings in North America, Europe, and Asia, including at the international Nineteenth Century French Studies (NCFS) conference in the USA, where in 2002 (Columbus, OH) he was presented with the NCFS Naomi Schor Memorial Award for a paper based on his doctoral research. He is also the former holder of a doctoral fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He has served on the organizing committees for conferences/colloquia in Canada and South Korea, is a founder member and former secretary of the Association canadienne des études francophones du XIXe siècle (ACÉF 19e siècle), and is presently serving as Communications Director for the Association Internationale Zola et Naturalisme (AIZEN). He is a member of the reading committee of the Nouvelle Revue Synergies Canada and a member of the editorial committee of the AIZEN’s journal, Excavatio.
He has been a faculty member at the University of Windsor since 2006, teaching courses on French grammar and composition, Literary Theory, the French Enlightenment, Romanticism, Realism & Naturalism, Symbolist & Surrealist Poetry, Modern French Culture, and the Grotesque (Special Topic).
Jeremy Worth’s other interests include cycling, cooking, and singing bass in the Windsor Symphony Orchestra Chorus. He is married with two children.