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Senior Lecturer
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- School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture
Biography
Originally from Belgium, I completed a PhD on French post-Holocaust literature at the University of Leuven and held post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Leuven and Lessius University College. I joined the University of Aberdeen as Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies in August 2022. I previously held a post as Associate Professor of French at the University of Leicester. As part of a research project on self-translation I also undertook a three-month research stay at Harvard University in 2010 supported by a Fulbright Visiting Fellowship.
My research combines literary studies with a range of interdisciplinary perspectives. I have in particular worked on survivor narratives and the representation of the Holocaust in contemporary Francophone fiction and bande dessinée. My research also focuses on issues of migration, bilingualism and translation. As part of my work, I have undertaken various research collaborations in the field of drama and the visual arts, particularly graphic novels, post-Holocaust art and political cartooning.
I am the author of Témoignage et littérature d’après Auschwitz (2020) and have co-edited several volumes and thematic issues, including: Un ciel de sang et de cendres. Piotr Rawicz et la solitude du témoin (2013); Ego-histories of France and the Second World War: Writing Vichy (2018, co-edited with Manuel Bragança); Tradition and Innovation in Franco-Belgian bande dessinée (2021); Migration, Memory and the Visual Arts: Second-Generation (Jewish) Artists (forthcoming 2023).
I am the PI of ‘Covid in Cartoons’ (AHRC, 2021-2022 350k), an interdisciplinary research project conduced with Dr Di Levine (University of Leicester), Shout Out UK and Cartooning for Peace. I’m also currently leading a BA/Leverhulme research project with Manu Braganca on The Future of WWII France in Academia.
External Memberships
I am currently Vice-Chair External Engagement and Communications for the University Council of Modern Languages. I'm a member of the Editorial Board of Modern and Contemporary France and of the AHRC Peer Review College. I have been part of the Executive Committee of the AUPHF+ as membership secretary from 2018 until 2021.
Prizes and Awards
- 'The Future of WWII France in Academia: Contemporary Research Paradigms, Trajectories and Challenges' (BA/Leverhulme Small Grant, £4,772.90), PI, with Dr Manu Bragança, 2022-2014 - with further funding from MHRA, UCML, IMLR, SFS, SSFH.
- 'Covid in Cartoons' (AHRC-funded (£352054 at 100% FEC and £296928 at 80% FEC), PI, in partnership with Dr Di Levine (LIAS) Cartooning for Peace and Shout Out UK, 2021-2022.
- ‘Political Cartooning and Global Challenges: Maximising impact across settings and stakeholders’, 'ESRC IAA funding, £9,996.8), with Sarah Weidman and Kara Blackmore, University of Leicester ESRC Impact Acceleration Account, Large Rapid Response scheme, 2021-2022.
- Design Methodology Hub, (Research England Fund for Participatory Research, £10,000), with Dr Di Levine and the University of Nairobi, 2022.
- 'Political Cartooning and Peace-Building in Conflict and Post-Conflict Contexts (GCRF IRDF ODA Block Grant (£9676), PI, with Dr Di Levine, 2021-22. With further College Research Development Fund support (data analysis ‘Social cohesion with a pencil stroke’ – political cartooning in Ivory Coast), 2021-2022 (£3,270.80)'
- Across the Seasons: Memory Matters Today' (Toni Schiff Memorial Fund, £9,132.90), PI, with Caroline Sharples (UCLan) and CCM Theatre, 2015-2016.
- 'France, Vichy and me', (BA/Leverhulme Small Grant, (£6,266.30), Co-I, with Manu Braganca (Queen's University Belfast), 2014-2016. With further grants and support (£6,265) from the SSFH, the SFS, the ASMCF, the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the School of Modern Languages at the University of Leicester, the Centre for Collaborative Research in the Humanities at Queen’s University Belfast, the QUB Research Initiative Fund.
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Supervision
Supervision expertise covers contemporary literature, Holocaust literature, genocide representations, bande dessinée, translation studies, visual cultures.
Past PhD supervision (supervised to completion)
Ana Rodrigues dos Santos: Critical Functions of Contemporary Visual and Digital Poetry (University of Leicester, 1st supervisor)
Margrethe Stuttaford: The British and German translations of Pippi Longstocking: A translational stylistics analysis (University of Leicester, 1st supervisor)
Anna Scanlon; The Image of Anne Frank in Modern Theatre (University of Leicester, 2nd supervisor)
Mashael Al-Mutairi Quality: Assessment of the Translation of the Arab Spring Presidential Speeches (University of Leicester, 2nd supervisor)
Chokri Ghezal: Negotiating Translation Options with Potential Readers: Applying Skopos Theory to Culturally-bound texts (University of Leicester, 2nd supervisor)
Funding and Grants
- 'The Future of WWII France in Academia: Contemporary Research Paradigms, Trajectories and Challenges' (BA/Leverhulme Small Grant, £4,772.90), PI, with Dr Manu Bragança, 2022-2014 - with further funding from MHRA, UCML, IMLR, SFS, SSFH.
- 'Covid in Cartoons' (AHRC-funded (£352054 at 100% FEC and £296928 at 80% FEC), PI, in partnership with Dr Di Levine (LIAS) Cartooning for Peace and Shout Out UK, 2021-2022.
- ‘Political Cartooning and Global Challenges: Maximising impact across settings and stakeholders’, 'ESRC IAA funding, £9,996.8), with Sarah Weidman and Kara Blackmore, University of Leicester ESRC Impact Acceleration Account, Large Rapid Response scheme, 2021-2022.
- Design Methodology Hub, (Research England Fund for Participatory Research, £10,000), with Dr Di Levine and the University of Nairobi, 2022.
- 'Political Cartooning and Peace-Building in Conflict and Post-Conflict Contexts (GCRF IRDF ODA Block Grant (£9676), PI, with Dr Di Levine, 2021-22. With further College Research Development Fund support (data analysis ‘Social cohesion with a pencil stroke’ – political cartooning in Ivory Coast), 2021-2022 (£3,270.80)'
- Across the Seasons: Memory Matters Today' (Toni Schiff Memorial Fund, £9,132.90), PI, with Caroline Sharples (UCLan) and CCM Theatre, 2015-2016.
- 'France, Vichy and me', (BA/Leverhulme Small Grant, (£6,266.30), Co-I, with Manu Braganca (Queen's University Belfast), 2014-2016. With further grants and support (£6,265) from the SSFH, the SFS, the ASMCF, the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the School of Modern Languages at the University of Leicester, the Centre for Collaborative Research in the Humanities at Queen’s University Belfast, the QUB Research Initiative Fund.
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De Striproman Irmina.: Een vraaggesprek over discriminatie, keuzevrijheid en herinnering. Interview conducted by Fransiska Louwagie and Fabian Van Samang.
Sporen van herinnering, no. 17, pp. 5-13Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAprès Maus: Témoignage et bande dessinée dans l’œuvre de Michel Kichka
Carrières de témoins de conflits contemporains (3) Les témoins réflexifs, les témoins pollinisateurs. Presses universitaires de Nancy, pp. 107-119, 13 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersAnne Frank sur scène: Le succès d'un symbole. Interview with David Barnouw
Témoigner. Entre histoire et mémoire, no. 119, pp. 28-31Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAnne Frank sur scène: le succès d'un symbole. Interview with David Barnouw
Traces de memoire: pedagogie et transmission, no. 13, pp. 1-4Contributions to Journals: ArticlesLe génocide vu par les dessinateurs de presse et les photographes
Traces de memoire, no. 13, pp. 13-14Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPiotr Rawicz, un témoin venu de l’Est
Carrières testimoniales (2). Presses universitaires de Nancy, pp. 357-373, 17 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersÀ l’ombre de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. La violence de masse en Croatie
Traces de Mémoire. Pédagogie et transmission, vol. 9, pp. 4-9Contributions to Journals: ArticlesUn roman au creux de l'expérience: Le Sang du ciel ou l'art d'un échec annoncé
Un ciel de sang et de cendres. Piotr Rawicz ou la solitude du témoin. Dayan Rosenman, A., Louwagie, F. (eds.). Kimé, pp. 159-179, 21 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersPréface:: Un ciel de sang et de cendres. Piotr Rawicz ou la solitude du témoin
Un ciel de sang et de cendres.: Piotr Rawicz ou la solitude du témoin. Dayan Rosenman, A., Louwagie, F. (eds.). Kimé, pp. 9-15, 7 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersPronominagebruik en identiteit in Nederlandstalige deportatieverhalen uit het Breendonkcorpus
Témoigner. Entre histoire et mémoireContributions to Journals: Articles