School of Modern Languages & Cultures

Professor Nina Parish

  • Professor, Head of School, School of Modern Languages and Cultures (School of Modern Languages & Cultures Administration)

Biography

Nina Parish joined as Head of School of Modern Languages and Cultures and Professor of French at the University of Glasgow in August 2025. She previously worked at the University of Stirling and the University of Bath. She has a wide range of teaching and PhD supervision experience as well as research interests across twentieth and twenty-first-century French and Francophone literature, visual arts and film, museum and memory studies as well as language teaching and translation. She researches representations of difficult history, the migrant experience and multilingualism in the museum space and has worked on a range of collaborative grants. Most recently, she was part of the DisTerrMem team, working on an EU-funded Horizon 2020 project, which examined the management of competing, often highly antagonistic, memories of disputed territories across borders focusing on the case studies of Armenia, Pakistan, Poland and Lithuania. She is also an expert on the interaction between text and image in the field of modern and contemporary French Studies. She has published widely on this subject, in particular, on the poet and visual artist, Henri Michaux.

Publications

Prior publications

Article

Katherine Astbury, Fiona Barclay, Ashley Harris, Nina Parish (2026) REF Impact and the Discipline of Modern Languages Modern Language Review Nina Parish. ISSN 2222-4319 (doi: 10.1353/mlr.00196)

David Clarke, Nina Parish (2024) Memory Books: Mapping Histories of Ethnic Coexistence Diaspora Nina Parish. ISSN 1911-1568 (doi: 10.3138/diaspora.24.2.2025.02.24)

Hannah Grayson, Nina Parish (2024) Special issue: Responses to a call to action: new directions and directives in memory studies in the French-speaking world Modern & Contemporary France Nina Parish. ISSN 1469-9869 (doi: 10.1080/09639489.2023.2285370)

David Clarke, Nina Parish, Polly Winfield, Ani Lecrivain (2023) Diasporic memory practice on the Internet: Remembering lost homelands Memory Studies Crossref. (doi: 10.1177/17506980221122174)

Nina Parish, Daniele Rugo (2021) Memories from the margins: violence and counter-narratives � introduction Journal of the British Academy Nina Parish. ISSN 2052-7217 (doi: 10.5871/jba/009s3.001)

Anna Cento Bull, Hans Lauge Hansen, Wulf Kansteiner, Nina Parish (2019) War museums as agonistic spaces: possibilities, opportunities and constraints International Journal of Heritage Studies Nina Parish. ISSN 1470-3610 (doi: 10.1080/13527258.2018.1530288)

Cristian Cercel, Nina Parish, Eleanor Rowley (2019) War in the Museum: The Historial of the Great War in Péronne and the Military History Museum in Dresden Journal of War & Culture Studies Nina Parish. ISSN 1752-6280 (doi: 10.1080/17526272.2019.1580846)

(2018) Entretien avec Sandra Moussempès MLA International Bibliography.

(2018) Interview with Jérôme Game MLA International Bibliography.

(2018) Poetry's Forms and Transformations [Special Issue] MLA International Bibliography.

(2018) Representing Multilingual Difficult History: Voices of the First World War in the Kobarid Museum (Slovenia) and the Historial de la Grande Guerre (France) MLA International Bibliography.

(2018) Translating Contemporary French Poetry MLA International Bibliography.

Anu Bissoonauth, Nina Parish (2017) French, English or Kanak Languages? Can Traditional Languages and Cultures Be Sustained in New Caledonia? PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies Nina Parish. ISSN 1449-2490 (doi: 10.5130/portal.v14i2.5378)

Chiara O’Reilly, Nina Parish (2017) Suitcases, keys and handkerchiefs: how are objects being used to collect and tell migrant stories in Australian museums? Museums & Social Issues Nina Parish. ISSN 2051-6193 (doi: 10.1080/15596893.2017.1386015)

(2016) Pierre Lecuire: Assessing the Coexistence of the Material and the Virtual in His Modernist Publishing Project MLA International Bibliography.

Chiara O'Reilly, Nina Parish (2015) Telling migrant stories in museums in Australia: Does the community gallery still have a role to play? Museum Management and Curatorship Nina Parish. ISSN 1872-9185 (doi: 10.1080/09647775.2015.1044461)

Nina Parish (2012) A textless title: The mythical status of Blaise Cendrars’ La Légende de Novgorode Journal of European Studies Nina Parish. ISSN 1740-2379 (doi: 10.1177/0047244111428843)

Nina Parish (2012) From Radio to the Internet: Italian Futurism, New Technologies and the Persistence of the Book International Yearbook of Futurism Studies Nina Parish. ISSN 2192-0281 (doi: 10.1515/futur-2012.0019)

(2012) Special Issue: Poetic Practice and the Practice of Poetics in French since 1945 MLA International Bibliography.

(2008) Between Text and Image, East and West: Henri Michaux's Signs and Christian Dotremont's 'Logogrammes' MLA International Bibliography.

(2008) From Book to Page to Screen: Poetry and New Media MLA International Bibliography.

Nina Parish (2008) Mediating the Creative Act via Word and Image. The Case of Henri Michaux, A Double Artist’, in ‘Immagine, Immaginazione, Creazione’, ed. by Antonietta Sanna, 6 (Pisa/Rome, 2008), 125-33 Letteratura & Arte Nina Parish.

Nina Parish (2006) Henri Michaux Textyles Crossref. (doi: 10.4000/textyles.409)

Book Section

David Clarke, Weronika Czyżewska-Poncyljusz, Nina Parish (2025) Performance and Peacebuilding between Consensus and Agonism: The Sejny Chronicles and Moush, Sweet Moush Pathways to Agonism Nina Parish. ISBN 9789004736825 (doi: 10.1163/9789004736887_003)

Stefan Berger, Anna Cento Bull, Cristian Cercel, David Clarke, Nina Parish, Eleanor Rowley, Zofia Wóycicka (2021) Memory Cultures of War in European War Museums Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies Nina Parish. ISBN 9783030860554 ISSN 2634-6265 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-86055-4_4)

David Clarke, Nina Parish, Ayshka Sené (2021) Taking Agonism Online: Creating a Mass Open Online Course to Disseminate the Findings of the UNREST Project Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies Nina Parish. ISBN 9783030860554 ISSN 2634-6265 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-86055-4_7)

Nina Parish, Chiara O’Reilly (2020) Remembering World War I in Australia: Hyde Park as Site of Memory Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies Nina Parish. ISBN 9783030520564 ISSN 2634-6265 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-52056-4_6)

Nina Parish, Eleanor Rowley (2020) Remembering the First World War in France: the Historial de la Grande Guerre and Thiepval Museum Handbook for French Politics and Culture Nina Parish.

Nina Parish, Emma Wagstaff (2019) Michèle Métail : Traduire la contrainte Michèle Métail : La poésie en trois dimensions Nina Parish.

Nina Parish (2013) Poésie et technologie: Les transformations numériques de l’espace poétique contemporain Chantiers du poème : Prémisses et pratiques de la création poétique moderne et contemporaine Nina Parish.

Nina Parish (2013) Portraits and Neologisms: Understanding the Visual in Henri Michaux’s “Voyage en Grande Garabagne” The Art of the Text: Visuality in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literary and Other Media Nina Parish.

Nina Parish (2012) Lire le visuel dans “Voyage en Grande Garabagne”: Une approche interdisciplinaire’ ‘Voyage en Grande Garabagne’ de Henri Michaux Nina Parish.

(2011) 'Pour faire un livre dadaïste': Dada Experimentation with Book Form MLA International Bibliography.

Nina Parish (2009) Henri Michaux: Poète du vingtième siècle? Regards sur la poésie du XXe siècle (Vol. I) Nina Parish.

Nina Parish (2007) L’imaginaire oriental: Les formes et les fonctions des caractères chinois dans l’expérimentation des signes d’Henri Michaux Texte, image, imaginaire Nina Parish.

(2004) Henri Michaux: Destruction of the Book Form and Creation of the Book-Object MLA International Bibliography.

Book

Marion Demossier, David Lees, Aurelien Mondon, Nina Parish (2020) Handbook for French Politics and Culture Routledge Nina Parish.

Nina Parish, Emma Wagstaff (2016) Writing the Real: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary French Poetry Enitharmon Nina Parish.

Hugues Azérad, Michael G. Kelly, Emma Wagstaff, Nina Parish (2013) Chantiers du poème: Prémisses et pratiques de la création poétique moderne et contemporaine Peter Lang UK Nina Parish. ISBN 9783034308007 (doi: 10.3726/978-3-0353-0402-2)

(2007) Henri Michaux: Experimentation with Signs MLA International Bibliography.

Other

Nina Parish (2013) Henri Michaux Honoré Champion Nina Parish.