PhD student
Dissertation
“From engineering to Fiction: technical writing in the works of Robert Louis Stevenson.”
Director of studies: Pr. Nathalie Vanfasse
Research interests
Connections between 19th century literature, science, and technology
History and anthropology of technology
Practical knowledge
Sound and visual technologies
- 2018- : Doctoral Candidate in English Studies
- 2017-2018 : Student Exchange at the Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- 2016-2017 : Second year of a two-year Master’s Degree in English Literature at École Normale Supérieure, Lyon
- 2015-2016 : Agrégation d’anglais (University teaching license) – Ranked 10th in France’s highest-level teaching qualification in English, with a specialisation in literature
- 2013-2014 : First year of a two-year Master’s Degree in English Literature at École Normale Supérieure, Lyon
- 2010-2013 : Preparation for entrance to École Normale Supérieure de Lyon at Lycée Claude-Fauriel, Saint-Etienne
2023
- “Itinerant engineers: travel and technical writing in the 19th century,” ‘Brown Bag Talk,’ American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 25 juillet 2023.
- “Art and Science (16th – 19th century),” Guest Lecture, Penn summer class history and sociology of science department, 18 juillet 2023.
- Kévin CRISTIN, Nicholas LOCKS, Claire SCHIANO-LOCURCIO & Pauline ZISERMAN (Aix-Marseille Université) : “Cartography of a scholarly field: tools and methods in the creation of a database on PhD in English Studies in France,” Atelier HEPISTEA, Congrès annuel de la SAES, 1-3 juin 2023.
- “Travel Writing and Engineering: Experiential and Textual Hybridity in the works of David and Robert Louis Stevenson,” Colloque anniversaire 20 ans de la SELVA, Université Nice Côte d’Azur, 11-12 mai 2023.
- “Who Knows (and What Do They Know)? Forms and legitimacy of knowledge in the works of Robert Louis Stevenson,” Rencontre scientifique entre les enseignants-chercheurs du LERMA et les enseignants du secondaire, LERMA Aix-Marseille Université, 2 mars 2023.
2022
- Kevin CRISTIN, Claire SCHIANO-LOCURCIO, Sara EL-MAJHAD, Camille MARTINERIE, « Etat des lieux des études doctorales dans le champ disciplinaire de l’anglistique/études anglophones: un cas d’étude au LERMA (2005-2022) », Projet Hépistéa, nov. 2022.
- « Magic Lanterns and Lighthouses: Writing through the Lens of Optical Technologies in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Gothic Short Stories », EMMA, Université Paul-Valérie, Montpellier, 18 octobre.
- « An ‘invalid marching to and fro upon the roads’: Pleasure and Exertion in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Early Travel Narratives », Robert Louis Stevenson International Conference, Université Bordeaux Montaigne, 16-18 juin 2022.
- « “Making”: Stevenson’s meditations on the human shaping of the world », Journée d’étude annuelle (en ligne) Forms of Knowledge and Experience in the Long Nineteenth Century, University of California, Berkeley, Université Paul-Valérie, Montpellier, Aix-Marseille Université, 13 mai 2022.
2021
- « Penser la spécialisation des savoirs et leur interaction avec Robert Louis Stevenson », Journée d’étude Pratiques de l’interdisciplinarité dans l’anglistique : les enjeux du décentrement, LERMA, Aix-Marseille Université, 22 octobre 2021.
- « Travel Writing and Engineering: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Professional and Literary Wanderings » (version révisée), Journée d’étude annuelle Forms of Knowledge and Experience in the Long Nineteenth Century, University of California, Berkeley, Université Paul-Valérie, Montpellier, Aix-Marseille Université, 8 juin 2021.
- « Travel Writing and Engineering: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Professional and Literary Wanderings », Atelier SELVA, Congrès Annuel de la SAES, Université de Tours, 3-5 juin 2021.
2019
- « Pour une redéfinition de la technique à travers les récits de voyage de R. L. Stevenson », Journée d’étude annuelle du Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone, thème de cette rencontre « Les études anglophones et l’interdisciplinarité », 10 octobre 2019.
- « From Fiction to Fieldwork: Robert Louis Stevenson as Accidental Anthropologist in the Pacific » (version révisée), International Conference « At the Crossroads of Doubt: Anthropology and Anglophone Travel Writing », Sorbonne Université, 27-28 septembre 2019.
- « Forms of Writing, Ways of Being: The Practical Effects of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Textual Experiments in the South Seas », Journée d’étude « Form across Literature and the Sciences in Victorian Britain », University of California, Berkeley, Aix-Marseille Université, 22-24 mai 2019.
- « From Fiction to Fieldwork: Robert Louis Stevenson as Accidental Anthropologist in the Pacific », BSHS Postgraduate Conference, Cambridge University, United-Kingdom, 10-12 avril 2019.
2018
- « Science, Technology and Stevenson’s Kinetic Imagination » University of California, Berkeley, dans le cadre du projet France-Berkeley, 3-5 mai 2018.
- « Literature and Photography », University of California, Berkeley, 3-5 mai 2018.
Forthcoming
« From Fiction to Fieldwork: Robert Louis Stevenson as Accidental Anthropologist in the Pacific », Collection of papers presented at the International Colloquium « At the Crossroads of Doubt: Anthropology and Anglophone Travel Writing », Sorbonne Université, Oxford, New York: Berghahn. Status: Accepted
Cristin Kévin. « Travel Writing and Engineering: Experiential and Textual Hybridity in the works of David and Robert Louis Stevenson », Decentering Epistemologies: The New Geographies of Anglophone Travel Writing, Collection of papers presented at the Colloquium “Reading, Writing, Travelling”, organised by the Society for the Study of Travel Writing in English, London: Routledge. Status: Accepted
Cristin, Kévin. « Canoeing on the Waterways of Europe: Definition of a Practice and a Genre through An Inland Voyage, by Robert Louis Stevenson », Writing on the Move, Collection of papers presented at the International Colloquium ESSE 2020, Oxford, New York: Berghahn. Status: Accepted
Cristin, Kévin. « An ‘invalid marching to and fro upon the roads’: Pleasure and Exertion in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Early Travels », Collection of papers presented at the International Colloquium “Stevenson and Pleasure,” Université Bordeaux Montaigne, 16 – 18 juin 2022. Status: First version of the article due December
2021-2024
Temporary research and teaching assistant
Courses taught (192h/year):
- Introduction to literary analysis, 1st year BA English
- “Questioning technology through literature and other media (19th century – present)” – English course for non-specialists
- Translation from English to French/French to English, Master Applied Foreign Languages (Co-coordinator of the course in 2023-2024)
- Literature, “Brief Encounters”, 3rd year BA English
- Language and translation, Master Applied Foreign Languages
2019-2020
Courses taught (64h):
- Literature and adaptation.
- Translation from English to French.
2018-2019
Courses taught (64h):
- Literature and adaptation.
- Translation from French to English.
2016-2017
French Assistant at Trinity College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Supervisions given to the students in Modern and Medieval Languages:
- “Use of French” (grammar), and preparation to speaking examinations
- French through Audio-Visual Media
- Creation of a French-for-beginners class for graduate students
- Ran extracurricular activities such as cultural visits to museums
2014-2015
French Assistant at King’s College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Supervisions given to the students in Modern and Medieval Languages:
- “Use of French” (grammar), and preparation to speaking examinations
- French through Audio-Visual Media
- Translation into French
- Text and culture
2017-Present
Integration of the France-Berkeley Project (International collaboration between the Research Centre on the Anglophone World, Aix-Marseille Université, and the English Department of the University of California, Berkeley for the study of Victorian Literature and Science).
Member of the organising committee for the workshop “Form across Literature and the Sciences in Victorian Britain,” 22-24 May 2019, Aix-Marseille Université, France
Contribution to the creation of a scientific blog on the platform ‘Hypotheses’:
< https://decentered.hypotheses.org/projet-france-berkeley >
Creation and administration of the Twitter page of the Research Centre, see “@Decentered_amu”
Creation of a bibliography of French scholarship on Literature and Science