A native of Hertfordshire, England, Jeremy Worth has lived in Canada since the 1990s. He holds advanced degrees from Queen’s University at Kingston and from Western University, where in 2004 he completed a PhD with a doctoral fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He has been a faculty member since 2006 at the University of Windsor, where he is currently Associate Professor and Coordinator of French Studies programs.
He teaches courses on French grammar and composition, Modern French Culture, Literary Theory, the French Enlightenment, Romanticism, Realism & Naturalism, Symbolist & Surrealist Poetry, and the literary grotesque (Special Topic). In 2020, he was nominated for the Student Society of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (SAHSS) Outstanding Professor of Humanities Award.
His research interests include the questions of identity and becoming, with a particular focus on the novels, and latterly on the letters, of Émile Zola. He 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.
Selected publications
Irvine, Margot and Jeremy Worth (eds.). 2019. The Unknowable in Literature and Material Culture: Essays in Honour of Clive Thomson. Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Worth, Jeremy. 2017. « 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, edited by Geneviève de Viveiros and Soundouss El Kettani, 91-102. Québec : Presses de l’Université du Québec.
Worth, Jeremy. 2015. Mireille Calle-Gruber présente au passage : trajets dans l'espace et le temps de l'écriture et de la grande ville. In Mireille Calle-Gruber : L'amour du monde à l'abri du monde dans la littérature – Mélanges, edited by Mélina Balcazar Moreno, Sarah-Anaïs Crevier Goulet, Anaïs Frantz and Élodie Vignon, 269-280. Paris : Éditions Hermann.
Worth, Jeremy. 2013. On Paradigmatic Resonances and the ‘Mechanized’ Beds and Bedchambers of Zola’s Glass House. In Re-Reading Zola and Worldwide Naturalism: Miscellanies in Honour of Anna Gural-Migdal, edited by Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt, Marie-Sophie Armstrong and Riikka Rossi, 206-224. Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Worth, Jeremy. 2011. « Battant toujours la même mesure » : répétitions, retours et errance infantile arrêtée chez Zola. In Enfance et errance dans l’Europe du XIXe siècle, edited by Isabelle Hervouet-Farrar, 257-270. Clermont-Ferrand : CELIS – Presses de l’Université Blaise Pascal.
Worth, Jeremy. 2010. Réglage, réparation et résistance : pour une relecture de l’horlogerie zolienne. In Résistances à la modernité dans la littérature française de 1800 à nos jours, edited by Christophe Ippolito, 149-164. Paris : L’Harmattan.
Worth, Jeremy. 2010. La mansarde dans la métropole, ou le rêve bohémien impossible. In Bohème sans frontière, edited by Anthony Glinoer and Pascal Brissette, 211-222. Rennes : Presses universitaires de Rennes.
Worth, Jeremy. 2008. In Striated Space: Zola’s Female Figures in their Symbolic Environments. Excavatio 23: 203-213.
Worth, Jeremy. 2008. « Les corps de bibliothèque montraient les mêmes rangées de volumes » : « lectures sans fin » et capture psychique dans les « demeures closes » des Rougon-Macquart. Voix plurielles 5 (1) : 1-8.