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.
- Research
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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.
- Publications
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The role of multisystemic resilience in fostering critical agency: UK adolescents during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Current Psychology, vol. 43, pp. 16833–16847Contributions to Journals: ArticlesWhy Comics?
Non-textual Forms: Digital or Visual Products- [ONLINE] Link to event, without video
Littérature de témoignage: œuvres et réception critique
Traumatisme et mémoire culturelle: France et espaces francophones. Segler-Meßner, S., von Treskow, I. (eds.). de Gruyter, pp. 233-252, 20 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110420746-016
The Covid-19 pandemic considered through the lens of political cartoons
Contributions to Conferences: Oral PresentationsSelf-Translation and Literary Reception in the Works of Ouyang Yu and Raymond Federman
Contributions to Conferences: Oral PresentationsCultural Connections through Political Cartoons: Global and Creative Perspectives in the Covid Classroom
Contributions to Conferences: Oral PresentationsPrésentation de la revue European Judaism consacré à l’art de la deuxième génération
Contributions to Conferences: Oral PresentationsCatriona MacLeod, Invisible Presence: The Representation of Women in French-Language Comics
H-France Reviews, vol. 23, 57Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesThematic issue of European Judaism: Displacement, Memory and the Visual Arts
European Judaism: A Journal for the New Europe , vol. 56, no. 1Contributions to Journals: Special IssuesIntroduction Displacement, Memory and the Visual Arts: Second-Generation (Jewish) Artists
European Judaism: A Journal for the New Europe , vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 1-21Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/ej.2023.560102
Youth Perspectives and Political Cartooning on the Covid-19 Pandemic: Public Engagement through the Arts
Contributions to Conferences: Oral PresentationsCommunity-building through political cartoons in Kenya, South Africa and Côte d’Ivoire
Working Papers: Working Papers- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.29311/lwps.202284092
Covid in Cartoons: critical literacy and resilience during the pandemic
Contributions to Conferences: Oral PresentationsL'engagement désengagé d'Henri Raczymow’
Continuum: revue des écrivains israéliens de langue française, vol. 19Contributions to Journals: ArticlesComing of age through bande dessinée: An interview with Michel Kichka
European Comic Art, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 51-73Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/eca.2021.140204
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Tradition and Innovation in Franco-Belgian bande dessinée: Introduction
Tradition and Innovation in Franco-Belgian bande dessinée, pp. 1-12Contributions to Journals: EditorialsBook review: 'Peter Davies, Wtiness Between Languages. The Translation of Holocaust Testimonies in Context, Camden House, 2018'
Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 394-395Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2021.1944474
Book review: 'Judith M. Hughes, Witnessing the Holocaust. Six Literary Testimonies, Bloomsbury, 2018'
Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 395-396Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2021.1944475
Book review: Ewa Stańczyk (ed), Comic Books, Graphic Novels and the Holocaust: Beyond Maus
European Comic Art, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 89-92Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesTémoignage et littérature d'après Auschwitz
Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands. 383 pagesBooks and Reports: Books- [ONLINE] https://brill.com/view/title/57146
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004430686
Testifying to Genocide: A Creative and Critical Use of Memory and Testimony in Holocaust Education in the UK and Canada
The Palgrave Handbook of Testimony and Culture. Jones, S., Woods, R. (eds.). Palgrave, pp. 405-427, 23 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13794-5
Introduction: Key Cultural Texts in Translation
Key Cultural Texts in Translation. Malmkjær, K., Serban, A., Louwagie, F. (eds.). John Benjamins Antiquariat, pp. 1-6, 6 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.140.intro
Key Cultural Texts in Translation
John Benjamins Antiquariat. 320 pagesBooks and Reports: Books- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.140
Conclusion: cross-perspective on ego-history
Ego-histories of France and the Second World War Writing Vichy. Palgrave, pp. 299-315, 17 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70860-7_17
Ego-histories of France and the Second World War: Writing Vichy
PalgraveBooks and Reports: Books- [ONLINE] https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319708591
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70860-7
Interview with Robert O. Paxton, on the writing of history and ego-history
Ego-histories of France and the Second World War: Writing Vichy. Bragança, M., Louwagie, F. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 19-22, 4 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70860-7_2
Introduction: Ego-histories, France and the Second World War
Ego-histories of France and the Second World War: Writing Vichy. Palgrave, pp. 3-18, 16 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70860-7_1
Le roman graphique Irmina. Un entretien sur la discrimination, les choix personnels et la mémoire. Interview with Barbara Yelin and Alexander Korb
Témoigner. Entre histoire et mémoire, no. 122Contributions to Journals: Articles"Et puis tu nous entraînes plus loin." Le témoignage des camps vu à travers le regard des préfaciers
Témoignages sous influence. La vérité du sensible. Presses de l'Université Laval, pp. 83-102, 20 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersLe roman graphique Irmina. Un entretien sur la discrimination, les choix personnels et la mémoire: Interview conducted by Fransiska Louwagie and Fabian Van Samang.
Trace de Mémoire, no. 17, pp. 5-13Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDe 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: ArticlesRaymond Federman: l'autotraduction comme projet esthétique
L'Autotraduction aux frontières de la langue et de la culture. Tanqueiro, H., Lagarde, C. (eds.). Editions Lambert LucasChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersRaymond Federman: l'autotraduction comme projet esthétique et critique: Autotraduction: frontières de la langue et de la culture
Working Papers: Working PapersUn ciel de sang et de cendres. Piotr Rawicz et la solitude du témoin
Kimé, Paris. 476 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksBroder une Histoire: Le rapport de Brodeck de Philippe Claudel
Traces de mémoire, no. 5, pp. 7-11Contributions to Journals: ArticlesVoortborduren op de Geschiedenis: Het verslag van Brodeck van Philippe Claudel
Sporen van herinnering, no. 5Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAprès la Shoah: la poétique de l’absence
@nalyses. Revue de critique et de théorie littéraire, vol. 7, no. 1Contributions to Journals: ArticlesLe témoignage face à l'histoire littéraire: transformations esthétiques et critiques
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsLe témoignage face à l'histoire littéraire: transformattions esthétiques et critiques
Des témoins aux héritiers. L'écriture de la Shoah et la culture européenne. Jurgenson, L., Prstojevic, A. (eds.). Editions Petra, pp. 241-259, 19 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersParcours testimoniaux: rééditions, réécritures: Cartest 1: Carrières testimoniales
Contributions to Conferences: PapersSporen van herinnering. Pedagogie en geschiedenisoverdracht
Brussels: Auschwitz Foundation Brussels.Other Contributions: Other ContributionsTraces de mémoire. Pédagogie et transmission
Brussels: Auschwitz Foundation Brussels.Other Contributions: Other ContributionsImaginaire de l’espace, espace imaginaire
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] https://calenda.org/202352?lang=pt
La bande dessinée dans l'orbe des guerres et des génocides du vingtième siècle
Kimé, Paris. 296 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksLa bande dessinée dans l'orbe des guerres et des génocides du vingtième siècle: Présentation
Témoigner, entre histoire et mémoire, no. 109, pp. 19-28Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMichael Rothberg (interview réalisé par Fransiska Louwagie et Pieter Vermeulen):: L'Holocauste et l'imagination comparative
Témoigner, entre histoire et mémoire, vol. 106, pp. 151-167Contributions to Journals: ArticlesRégine Robin en "L'écriture flaneuse": identiteit en taal tussen modernisme en postmodernisme
De erfenis van het modernisme. Baetens, J., Houppermans, S., Langeveld, A., Liebregts, P. (eds.). Rozenberg, pp. 165-183, 19 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersThe ethical stance of testimony: memory politics and representational choices
Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 1-17Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCultural Theory and Holocaust Remembrance in Romain Gary's Pour Sganarelle and La danse de Gengis Cohn
Works and Days, no. 51, pp. 97-106Contributions to Journals: ArticlesL'écriture «extime» de Gérard Wajcman: Blancs, notes et intertextes dans L'interdit
Etudes Francaises, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 131-150Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/037849ar
Lieux de non retour
Qualifier des lieux de détention et de massacre (2): Territorialisation et déterritorialisation. Fleury, B., Walter, J. (eds.), pp. 299-311, 13 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersPhilippe Mesnard, Témoignage en résistance, Stock, 2007
Questions de communication, no. 16, pp. 326-328Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesPour ainsi dire une pieuvre: Book review: Central Europe, William T. Vollmann, Arles 2007
Témoigner, entre histoire et mémoire, no. 103, pp. 230-233Contributions to Journals: ArticlesL'imaginaire de Jorge Semprun:: Narcisse entre miroir et fleur
Orbis Litterarum, vol. 63, no. 2, pp. 152-171Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0730.2007.00922.x
"Métastases" d'Auschwitz: modalités et limites d'une tradition testimoniale
Témoignages de l'après-Auschwitz dans la littérature juive-française: enfants de survivants et survivants-enfants. Rodopi, pp. 172-185, 14 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersBroder une histoire - Note de lecture: Le rapport de Brodeck, Philippe Claudel, Paris, Stock, 2007
Témoigner, entre histoire et mémoire, no. 100, pp. 207-213Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDes cris par-delà le silence: témoignage et littérature: Book review: Qui si je criais...? Oeuvres-témoignages dans les tourmentes du XXe siècle, Claude Mouchard, 2007
Acta Fabula http://www.fabula.org/revue/document4390.php, vol. 9, no. 7Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] http://www.fabula.org/
From the depths. Dutch egodocuments from the Nazi concentration camps
Spiegel der Letteren, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 393-396Contributions to Journals: ArticlesŒdipe à jéricho. L'œuvre testimoniale d'Henri Raczymow
Neophilologus, vol. 92, no. 2, pp. 217-233Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-007-9075-7
"Et puis tu nous entraînes plus loin": le témoignage des camps vu à travers le regard des préfaciers: Témoignage sous influence
Contributions to Conferences: PapersBetween the general and the particular: Reminiscences of Plato's 'Timaeus' in Piotr Rawicz's 'Le sang du ciel'
Romance Quarterly, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 326-339Contributions to Journals: ArticlesLe témoignage francophone sur les camps de concentration nazis (1945-2004): une étude générique et discursive
Romaneske, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 13-16Contributions to Journals: ArticlesComment dire l’expérience des camps: fonctions transmissives et réparatrices du récit testimonial
ETUD LITTERAIRES, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 57-68Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/014822ar
Die Suche nach Einheit und Identität in Zeugnissen der Shoah: Elie Wiesels La Nuit une André Schwarz-Barts Le Dernier des Justes: Kongress des Franko-Romanisten-Verbandes "Demokratie, Literatur, Sprache"
Contributions to Conferences: PapersLa force du plus faible: L'ethos testimonial dans Le Sang du ciel de Piotr Rawicz
Lettres Romanes, vol. 60, no. 3-4, pp. 297-310Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1484/J.LLR.3.146
Le témoignage des camps et sa médiation préfacielle
Questions de communication, no. 10, pp. 349-367Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/questionsdecommunication.7724
Book review: Témoignage et fiction: les récits de rescapés dans la littérature de langue française (1945-2000), Marie Bornand, Genève, 2004
L’Esprit Créateur, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 113-114Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesNotes de lecture: Karla Grierson, Discours d'Auschwitz: littérarité, représentation, symbolisation - Champion, 2003
Questions de communication, no. 5, pp. 367-369Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesUne poche interne plus grande que le tout: pour une approche générique du témoignage des camps
Questions de communication, no. 4, pp. 365-379Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/questionsdecommunication.5787