Dr Matthew Screech
Senior Lecturer in French
My profile
Biography
I am a committed European and Francophile with particular interest in poetry and popular culture.
Out of work I spend my time record collecting (Ska, Sun Ra, Zappa), walking, travelling and trying to improve my Spanish.
Words of wisdom
Turn up regularly and ask when you don’t understand. If you don’t understand something, at least half the rest of the class probably doesn’t get it either.
Academic and professional qualifications
PhD on Symbolist poet Ephraim Mikhael : UCL 1989.
Other academic service (administration and management)
French Section Coordinator for year abroad.
Languages
French
Expert reviewer for external funding bodies
I have worked by invitation as a peer reviewer for the publishers Liverpool University Press, Bloomsbury and Peter Lang as well as for the following scholarly journals: Modern and Contemporary France, Graphic Novels and Comics, Kult, Nouvelles Etudes Francophones, Authorship, French Studies, European Comic Art, Libri & Liberi.
Expert reviewer for external funding bodies
I sit on the editorial board of the scholarly journal European Comic Art.
Visiting and honorary positions
In 2004/5 I taught English for 1 week at the University of Limoges under the aegis of the Socrates Teachers Exchange scheme.
Membership of professional associations
Founder member of the International Bande Dessinée Society.
Teaching
Why do I teach?
I strongly believe we should understand other cultures and I like to think I’m helping younger people to do so. Learning other languages and cultures is tremendously enriching both personally and professionally.
Subject areas
French
Research outputs
My research focus was originally 19th Century Symbolist poetry but it has since moved on to French comics.
19th century literature and in contemporary popular culture, particularly bande dessinées.
-
Books (authored/edited/special issues)
Huxley, A. (2009) De la vulgarité en littérature Divagations sur un thème. L'Inventaire.
Screech, M. (2005) Masters of the Ninth Art Bandes Dessinées and Franco-Belgian Identity. Liverpool University Press.
Mikhaël, E. (1994) Poèmes en vers et en prose. Geneva: Librairie Droz.
Besançon, A. (1994) The Falsification of the Good .Soloviev and Orwell. London: Claridge.
-
Chapters in books
Screech, M. (2021) 'La ligne claire continue.' In Porret, M., Preyat, F., Roche, O., Jean-Louis, T. (ed.) Tintin Aujourd'hui. Georg,
Screech, M.E.J. (2016) 'Continuing Clear Line 1983-2013.' The Comics of Hergé. When the Lines are not so Clear. University Press of Mississippi,
Screech, M.E.J. (2005) 'Jean Giraud / Moebius: nouveau réalisme and science fiction.' The Francophone bande dessinée. Rodopi,
Screech, M.E.J. (2001) 'Correspondence between Ephraim Mikhael and Camille Bloch.' Oeuvres complètes d'Ephraim Mikhael, Vol II. L'Age d''Homme,
-
Internet publications
Screech, M., Screech, M. (2018) Le mythe de mai 68 et la bande dessinée. http://neuviemeart.citebd.org/.
-
Journal articles
Screech, M. (2020) 'Book review: Fabrice Boumahdi, Hergé. Le passager du XXe siècle..' H-France, 20(17)
Screech, M. (2019) 'Book review: French Cartoon Art in the 1960s and 1970s: ‘Pilote hebdomadaire’ and the Teenager ‘bande dessinée’.' French Studies, 73(3) pp. 496-496.
Screech, M.E.J. (2017) 'The Myth of May 1968 in Bandes dessinées.' Belphégor, 15(2)
Screech, M. (2016) 'Tintin: Herge's Masterpiece.' EUROPEAN COMIC ART, 9(2) pp. 100-+.
Screech, M.E.J. (2016) 'Tintin: Hergé’s Masterpiece, Somerset House, London, 12 November 2015 to 31 January 2016.' European Comic Art, 9(2) pp. 100-101.
Screech, M. (2015) 'Fred in Wonderland: Carrollian Nonsense Effects in Philémon.' Journal of Popular Culture, 48(5) pp. 898-920.
Screech, M. (2013) 'A Tale of Three Candides: Sfar, Meyran and Delcourt Recount Voltaire.' European Comic Art, 6(1) pp. 14-44.
Screech, M.E.J. (2012) 'Jean-Marie Apostolides. Dans la Peau de Tintin.' European Comic Art, 5(2) pp. 114-116.
Screech, M.E.J. (2011) 'Tintin au pays du canard enchaine: Herge's hero re-created in Political Cartoons of the 1950s and the 1960s.' Belphégor: Littérature Populaire et Culture Médiatique, 10(2)
Screech, M.E.J. (2011) 'Comics in French. The European bande dessinee in context by Laurence Grove.' Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 2(1) pp. 104-106.
SCREECH, M.A.T.T.H.E.W. (2010) 'Remembering the Jazz Orpheus: Barney and the Blue Note by Loustal and Paringaux.' Journal of Popular Culture, 43(2) pp. 348-367.
Screech, M.E.J. (2010) 'Introduction. Matthew Screech Guest Editor.' European Comic Art. Special Edition on Herge, 3(2) pp. v-xiii.
Screech, M.E.J. (2008) 'Reading Bande dessinee. Critical Approaxhes to the French-Language Comic Strip by Ann Miller.' Modern and Contemporary France, 16(3) pp. 364-365.
Screech, M. (2008) 'Autobiographical Innovations: Edmond Baudoin's Éloge de la poussière.' European Comic Art, 1(1) pp. 57-85.
Screech, M.E.J. (2004) 'Gotlib's Progress.' Belphégor: Littérature Populaire et Culture Médiatique, 4(1)
Screech, M. (1999) 'André Franquin, Master of the Ninth Art.' Journal of Popular Culture, 33(3) pp. 95-133.
Screech, M.E.J. (1996) 'Les oeuvres théâtrales d’Éphraïm Mikhaël.' Revue d'Histoire du Theatre, 3(191) pp. 337-352.
Screech, M. (1996) 'The theatrical work of Ephraim Mikhael.' REVUE D HISTOIRE DU THEATRE, 48(3) pp. 337-352.
-
Conference papers
Screech, M.E.J. (2013) 'Joint International Conference of Graphic Novels and Comics and International Bande dessinee Society.' In Joint International Conference of Graphic Novels and Comics and International Bande dessinee Society. 6. MMU, 5/7/2011 - 8/7/2011.
Screech, M.E.J. (2010) 'International Bande dessinee Society.' In Scripting the Image. Imaging the Script. 43. MMU, 8/7/2005 - 9/7/2005. pp. 348-367.