Dr Adeline Heck

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

Researcher profile

Email

aah24@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Biography

Adeline Heck is a British Academy International Fellow in the School of Modern Languages at St Andrews. After obtaining her PhD from Princeton University in 2020, she worked in China and in Belgium, where she completed a three-year FNRS fellowship (2022-2025) on the Bayreuth Festival and its Francophone attendees. Her academic speciality centres on the study of nineteenth-century French literature and its interactions with opera and vocal music, with a particular interest in the reception of Richard Wagner's works and ideas. Her British Academy project focuses on 19th-century French opera libretti and their status as literary works. 

Selected publications

• A simulacrum of the ‘true modern cult’: the Bayreuth Festival and French novels of pilgrimage at the turn of the century

  Heck, A., 16 Mar 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Music & Letters. Advance Articles, gcag026.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Cahiers Valery Larbaud, Édouard Dujardin – Valery Larbaud: Correspondance II, 1930-1947

  Heck, A., 13 May 2026, Paris: Classiques Garnier. 152 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Decadent Lustmord: fin-de-siècle parodies of Tristan und Isolde by Gabriele d’Annunzio and Joséphin Péladan

  Heck, A., 1 Jul 2026, The Wagner Journal, 20, 2, p. 22-41.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Le mythe wagnérien et la genèse du Festival de Bayreuth

  Heck, A., 11 May 2026, Lettres de Bayreuth : Richard Wagner et le premier Festival Correspondance inédite (1873-1883). Kunkel, S. (ed.). Otrante, p. 11-21

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Correspondance Édouard Dujardin – Valery Larbaud (1922-1929): Correspondance I Édouard Dujardin – Valery Larbaud (1922-1929)

  Charbonnier, G. (Editor) & Heck, A. (Editor), 21 May 2025, Classiques Garnier. (Cahiers Valery Larbaud; vol. 2025, no. 61)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• «Fugitive beauté»: Villiers de l’Isle-Adam et Wagner ou le miroir déformant d’une reconnaissance fantasmée

  Heck, A., 23 Jul 2025, Villiers de l’Isle-Adam: un inactuel en son siècle. Enriquez, R. & Orset, A. (eds.). Paris: Classiques Garnier, p. 157-175 (Études dix-neuviémistes (Éditions Classiques Garnier); vol. 70).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Twilight of the Wagnerian God: reexamining Huysmans’s and Mallarmé’s poetic critique of Wagner

  Heck, A., 6 May 2024, In: Nineteenth-Century French Studies. 52, 3-4, p. 239-256

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• 1885: la Revue wagnérienne: à la recherche d’un art nouveau

  Heck, A., 23 Aug 2023, Nouvelle histoire de la musique en France, 1870-1950.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Narcissistic fiction: music theater of the everyday in Édouard Dujardin’s Les Lauriers sont coupés (1887)

  Heck, A., 1 Mar 2023, In: 19th-Century Music. 46, 3, p. 244-272

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Trouble in paradise: Colette’s Claudine s’en va (1903) and the problem of writing about Wagner

  Heck, A., 26 May 2022, The Routledge companion to music and modern literature. Durkin, R., Dayan, P., Englund, A. & Clausius, K. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, p. 112-125 (Routledge music companions).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

 

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