Véronique Lane

Véronique Lane is a Teaching Associate in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Lancaster University. After a PhD on Antonin Artaud and Jean Genet from the Universities of Montreal and Paris Diderot – Paris VII (2012), she has taught Comparative Literature as well as 19th and 20th Century French Literature, Critical Thought, Theatre and Film at Vassar College and Wesleyan University in France and the US, and has been Postdoctoral Fellow in the Research Institute for the Humanities at Keele University in the UK. She has published several articles on the works of Apollinaire, Artaud, Céline and Genet, and is the author of The French Genealogy of The Beat Generation: Burroughs, Ginsberg and Kerouac’s Appropriations of Modern Literature, from Rimbaud to Michaux (London: Bloomsbury, 2017, 264 p.)