Postgraduate research students

My research concerns the career, contemporary and posthumous reception of Chauveau, a long-neglected author, illustrator, painter, sculptor, and sketcher who in 2020 was the subject of the major exhibition 'Au pays des monstres' [In the land of monsters] at the Musée d'Orsay. Working in collaboration with multiple cultural organisations and with the exhibition donor, the artist's grandson and archivist Marc Chauveau, I apply sociological concepts including neurodiversity and intersectionality to Chauveau's exploration of difference and depiction of himself finding refuge from social alienation within a community of 'companions', sympathetic 'monsters' he created. My thesis also refers to interviews with prestigious artists commissioned for the exhibition, and with artists who responded to a talk I delivered at Glasgow disability arts charity Project Ability, drawing on commonalities between the two groups to comment on wider challenges around inclusivity in the cultural sector.

As author: 

Introduction to 'The Familiarity of Monsters' by Gilbert Lascault, Art in Translation, Issue 16.2, Summer 2024 (forthcoming)

Interview and biography of Chauveau, Samovar, 22 April 2024, http://samovar.strangehorizons.com/.

Scottish Graduate School of Arts and Humanities Featured Researcher, January 2024, https://sgsahresearch.com/portfolio/nat-paterson/

'Léopold Chauveau’, The Literary Encyclopedia, 2021, https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14652

‘Léopold Chauveau’s Children’s Stories’, The Literary Encyclopedia, 2021, https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=39454

Article for Lancaster University alumni blog, 2017, https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/languages-and-cultures/blogs/blogs-archive/student/delc-graduate-nat-paterson-on-getting-published-as-a-translator/. 

‘When Jews Are Christians’ in In Other Words, Journal of the Translators’ Association, Issue 48, Winter 2016, p. 118

As translator:

Léopold Chauveau,'The Little Monster', in Samovar, 22 April 2024, http://samovar.strangehorizons.com/.

Chauveau, 'Wise Little Renaud's Stories', 2022, https://worldkidlit.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/chaveau_paterson_the_wise_little_renauds_stories_sample_march_2022.pdf.

'Three Stories by Léopold Chauveau', 2020, https://www.roubaix-lapiscine.com/en/exhibitions/past/in-the-land-of-monsters-by-leopold-chauveau-1870-1940/.

Chauveau, ‘The Story of the Boa and the Tapir’, 2019, https://paralleltexts.blog/2019/11/03/leopold-chauveau-nat-paterson-histoire-du-boa-et-du-tapir-story-of-the-boa-and-the-tapir/?fbclid=IwAR2pm6zUmPJIpSncrDu9_fOoxVyvCNKKHHL2gZpJv8gUH5zaeAs7S7224Z0

Yves Tesson, Champagne Billecart-Salmon: Two Centuries of Adventure, Paris: Tallandier, 2018.

Gabriella Poli and Giorgio Calcagno, Echoes of a Lost Voice: Encounters with Primo Levi Elstree: Vallentine Mitchell, 2017

As member of editorial board:

eSharp, Issue 28, 'Estrangement and Reconciliation', Summer 2020.

Acknowledged for introducing author to Chauveau:

Little, Roger, ‘L’antiracisme de Léopold Chauveau’, 2019, http://www.sielec.net/pages_site/comptes-rendus_lecture/Chauveau_antiraciste.pdf

• Professor Stephen Forcer
• Dr Amy Johnstone
• Dr Rachel Douglas

Fellowships:

2024 tuition-free CIVIS course 'Shifting Societies, Changing Museums', Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, https://civis.eu/en/learn/civis-courses/shifting-societies-changing-museumsbhttps://civis.eu/en/learn/civis-courses/shifting-societies-changing-museums

2023 Institut Giacometti Residency, https://www.fondation-giacometti.fr/en/article/489/Nat-Paterson

2021 'Traduire l'histoire de l'art' funded workshop

Financial awards:

2024 University of Glasgow Chancellor's Fund Scholarship for CIVIS travel

2023 Art in Translation Student Prize

2023 Beatrix Whistler and James Abbott McNeil Whistler Travel Scholarship

2020 Allen Inglis Travel Scholarship

2019-21 Peter Davies MPhil Scholarship

2015-17 School of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing Scholarship (UEA)

Stirling Maxwell Centre roundtable, 5/23

Stieling Maxwell Centre seminar, 2/23

‘Postcolonial faultlines’ online conference, 10/22

Talk at Project Ability, 5/22

‘Heritage and cultures’ online conference, 5/20

‘Fluidity’ online conference, 5/20

‘Translation and multilingualism’ conference, Lancaster University, 5/16

Organisation committee, ‘Untranslatability’ conference, UEA, 10/15

Academic Background:

MPhil in French Studies, Glasgow, 2019-21

MA with Merit in Literary Translation, UEA, 2015-17

BA (1st Class Honours) in French Studies, with Distinction in Spoken Italian, Lancaster, 2010-14. Swiss Consul-General's Prize in French 2014. Excellence mention for work in my first year, which did not count towards my final result.

Memberships and affiliations:

Scottish Graduate School of Arts and Humanities Doctoral Researcher Committee, EDI Subcommittee

Stirling Maxwell Centre

Glasgow Life Museums Access Panel