Journal Articles

French, J and Frayn, A (2027) The Limits of Late Style in Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929), T.S. Eliot’s The Elder Statesman (1958) and Christine Brooke-Rose’s Life, End of… (2005), Textual Practice, ISSN: 0950-236X.

French, J (2026) Waste not: Mina Loy’s late assemblages and materialities of aging, Feminist Modernist Studies, 9(2), pp.341-357, ISSN: 2469-2921. DOI: 10.1080/24692921.2026.2690903.

Lovatt, M, Crichton, G, Wright, V, French, J (2026) Changing the script: using forum theatre to reimagine the future in later life, International Journal of Ageing and Later Life, DOI: 10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.6223.

French, J and Parker, S (2026) Troubling timing: “modernism, generations, and the gaps between” a conversation between Jade French and Sarah Parker, Feminist Modernist Studies, 9(1), pp.109-116, ISSN: 2469-2921. DOI: 10.1080/24692921.2026.2623806.

Read, S and French, J (2025) Curating the health humanities: perspectives from literary studies, Journal of Medical Humanities, 46(3), pp.513-521, ISSN: 1041-3545. DOI: 10.1007/s10912-025-09968-z.

French, J and Joshi, S (2025) Introduction to special issue on narratives of care, caring materials, and materializing care in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, Journal of Medical Humanities, 46(3), pp.325-328, ISSN: 1041-3545. DOI: 10.1007/s10912-025-09974-1.

French, J (2025) Modernist beauty cultures: Mina Loy and Elizabeth Arden's gendered economies of ageing, Modernist Cultures, 19(4), pp.354-372, ISSN: 2041-1022. DOI: 10.3366/mod.2024.043.

French, J, Lovatt, M, Wright, V (2024) Utopian method: reimagining age expectations and intergenerational relationships through reader responses to Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book (1972), Age, Culture, Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 8, ISSN: 2373-5481. DOI: 10.7146/ageculturehumanities.v8i.150067.

French, JE (2024) Ruins, Repairs and Returns, Women a Cultural Review, 35(1), pp.62-64, ISSN: 0957-4042. DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2024.2340304.

French, JE, Lovatt, M, Wright, V (2023) Understanding Nuance and Ambivalence in Intergenerational Relationships Through Fiction, The Gerontologist, 63(10), pp.1619-1627, ISSN: 0016-9013. DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnad051.

French, JE (2023) Contradictory Late Styles in Djuna Barnes's Poetic Cycles, 1969–82, Poetics Today, 44(1-2), pp.111-129, ISSN: 0333-5372. DOI: 10.1215/03335372-10342113.

French, JE (2023) Mina Loy’s ‘Collage Strategies’, Women: a cultural review, 34(1-2), pp.141-143, ISSN: 0957-4042. DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2023.2196169.

French, J (2022) Mina Loy’s Shifting Oral History: Commemorations by an Artist in Later Life, Modernism/Modernity Print Plus, 7(2), DOI: 10.26597/mod.0243.

French, JE, Lovatt, M, Wright, V (2021) Through the Utopian Lens of Opportunity: Using fiction and theatre during COVID-19 to reimagine the future in older age, The Sociological Review Magazine, DOI: 10.51428/tsr.kgrs3385.

Parker, S and French, J (2021) “But with this I’m embodied”: H.D.’s public photographic portraits, 1913-1958, Feminist Modernist Studies, 4(1), pp.93-124, ISSN: 2469-2921. DOI: 10.1080/24692921.2021.1873021.

French, JE and Whalen, L (2021) Women Modernists and the Decorative: An Introduction, Women: A Cultural Review, 32(1), pp.1-7, ISSN: 0957-4042. DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2021.1890896.

French, JE (2021) Still Tickin’: Betye Saar, Ageing and Assemblage, Women: A Cultural Review, 32(1), pp.70-85, ISSN: 0957-4042. DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2021.1883266.

French, JE (2020) War-Time Capsules, Women: A Cultural Review, 31(4), pp.494-496, ISSN: 0957-4042. DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2020.1844393.

French, JE (2020) Review of 'Fierce with Reality: Literature on Aging' edited by Margaret Cruikshank, Age Culture Humanities An Interdisciplinary Journal, 4, pp.1-3, ISSN: 2375-8856. DOI: 10.7146/ageculturehumanities.v4i.130510.

French, J Modernist Beauty Cultures: Mina Loy and Elizabeth Arden's Gendered Economies of Ageing, Modernist Cultures, ISSN: 2041-1022.

Books

French, JE (2025) Modernist Poetics of Ageing, Oxford University PressOxford, ISBN: 9780198919971. DOI: 10.1093/9780198920007.001.0001.

Chapters

French, JE (2025) Introduction. In Modernist Poetics of Ageing, Oxford University PressOxford, pp.1-21, ISBN: 9780198919971. DOI: 10.1093/9780198920007.003.0001.

French, JE (2025) Towards an Embodied Late Style. In Modernist Poetics of Ageing, Oxford University PressOxford, pp.76-112, ISBN: 9780198919971. DOI: 10.1093/9780198920007.003.0004.

French, JE (2025) ‘Still Occurring’. In Modernist Poetics of Ageing, Oxford University PressOxford, pp.52-75, ISBN: 9780198919971. DOI: 10.1093/9780198920007.003.0003.

French, JE (2025) Conclusion. In Modernist Poetics of Ageing, Oxford University PressOxford, pp.168-176, ISBN: 9780198919971. DOI: 10.1093/9780198920007.003.0007.

French, JE (2025) The ‘New’ and the ‘Now’. In Modernist Poetics of Ageing, Oxford University PressOxford, pp.22-51, ISBN: 9780198919971. DOI: 10.1093/9780198920007.003.0002.

French, JE (2025) Experimental Late-Life Writing. In Modernist Poetics of Ageing, Oxford University PressOxford, pp.113-138, ISBN: 9780198919971. DOI: 10.1093/9780198920007.003.0005.

French, JE (2025) The Archive as Life Course. In Modernist Poetics of Ageing, Oxford University PressOxford, pp.139-167, ISBN: 9780198919971. DOI: 10.1093/9780198920007.003.0006.

French, JE (2023) Crones, Care Homes, and Crises. In Aging Experiments, De Gruyter, pp.155-174, DOI: 10.1515/9783839462836-011.

French, J (2023) “Grey Figures Bent Like Hooks”:. In Ethical Crossroads in Literary Modernism, Liverpool University Press, pp.51-66, DOI: 10.2307/jj.2862490.7.

French, JE (2023) Crones, Care Homes, and Crises. In Edition Kulturwissenschaft, transcript Verlag, pp.155-174, ISBN: 9783837662832. DOI: 10.14361/9783839462836-011.

French, JE (2023) Crones, care homes, and crises: 'The material culture of growing older' in leonora carrington's the hearing trumpet (1977). In Aging Experiments Futures and Fantasies of Old Age, pp.155-174.

Other

French, JE (2025) List of Figures. DOI: 10.1093/9780198920007.002.0005.

French, JE (2025) List of Abbreviations. DOI: 10.1093/9780198920007.002.0006.

French, JE (2025) Other. DOI: 10.1093/9780198920007.002.0004.

Read, S and French, J (Accepted for publication) Health From Cradle to Grave: Birthing Chair to the Death Couch, An exhibition highlighting the work from English at Loughborough University's Health Humanities Research Network. The exhibition was curated by Sara Read and Jade French from the English Department within the School of Social Sciences and Humanities. The exhibition’s themes translate and distil high-quality research on health, society and culture across time and space into material objects, art, poetry, life writing, and literature. The work on display represents individual research endeavours and narrativises the sickness, health and wellbeing contexts across time and space. Representing periods from the early modern to the contemporary, the exhibition shows the transhistorical connections between objects and words.There was a closing event with readings on Tuesday 23 April from 4-6pm in the exhibition space. During the event six members of the Health Humanities Research Group: Megan Constable, Jennifer Cooke, Tamarin Norwood, Rai Powell, Kerry Featherstone and Sara Read gave readings from their health humanities research-led creative writing.Martin Hall Exhibition Space, Loughborough University, 27 March - 23 April 2024, 12:00-14:00. .