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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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Traces 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