Teaching

Alexis Tadié teaches mainly eighteenth-century literature, including adaptations of the eighteenth century in cinema. In 2025–6, his master’s seminar will be looking at fiction and fictionality in the long eighteenth-century, studying in particular the following texts:

Austen, Jane. Northanger Abbey.

Defoe, Daniel. Roxana. The Fortunate Mistress.

Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels.

HIs strong interest in postcolonial literatures means that in the second semester, he will be looking at the Arab novel in English, reading:

Abu Toha, Mosab. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza.

Alameddine, Rabih. The Wrong End of the Telescope.

Matar, Hisham. My Friends.

In previous years, he developed an interest in the adaptations of eighteenth-century texts to the screen, looking at theories of adaptation, at discourse on cinema, as well as at transpositions of historical periods. The seminar analysed parallel scenes from films and novels to understand different modes of representation (far away from ideas of the “authentic” or of « fidelity »…). Further, his masters lectures concentrated on adaptation theory.

For instance, in 2022–3:

A Cock and Bull Story. Dir. Michael Winterbottom. 2005.

Love & Friendship. Dir. Whit Stillman. 2016.

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders. Dir. David Attwood. ITV. 1996.

Together with:

Austen, Jane. Lady Susan.

Defoe, Daniel. Moll Flanders.

Laurence Sterne. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.

Alexis Tadié also convenes a doctoral seminar in literary theory.

Over the years he has taught, and still supervises, linguistic analysis of literary discourse, contemporary British fiction and a variety of authors ranging from Shakespeare to Burney, Conrad to Kureishi, Rushdie to Roy. There are currently nine PhD students registered under his supervision.