Dr Fransiska Louwagie

Dr Fransiska Louwagie
Dr Fransiska Louwagie
Dr Fransiska Louwagie

Senior Lecturer

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Office Address
A44 Taylor Building
Old Aberdeen Campus
High Street
AB24 3UB

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School/Department
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

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

    Weidman, S., Levine, D. T., Louwagie, F., Blackmore, K., Theron, L. C., Stekel, D. J.
    Current Psychology, vol. 43, pp. 16833–16847
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Why Comics?

    Louwagie, F.
    Non-textual Forms: Digital or Visual Products
  • Littérature de témoignage: œuvres et réception critique

    Louwagie, F.
    Traumatisme et mémoire culturelle: France et espaces francophones. Segler-Meßner, S., von Treskow, I. (eds.). de Gruyter, pp. 233-252, 20 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • The Covid-19 pandemic considered through the lens of political cartoons

    Louwagie, F.
    Contributions to Conferences: Oral Presentations
  • Self-Translation and Literary Reception in the Works of Ouyang Yu and Raymond Federman

    Louwagie, F.
    Contributions to Conferences: Oral Presentations
  • Cultural Connections through Political Cartoons: Global and Creative Perspectives in the Covid Classroom

    Louwagie, F.
    Contributions to Conferences: Oral Presentations
  • Présentation de la revue European Judaism consacré à l’art de la deuxième génération

    Louwagie, F.
    Contributions to Conferences: Oral Presentations
  • Catriona MacLeod, Invisible Presence: The Representation of Women in French-Language Comics

    Louwagie, F.
    H-France Reviews, vol. 23, 57
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Thematic issue of European Judaism: Displacement, Memory and the Visual Arts

    Magonet, J. (ed.), Louwagie, F., Wiltshire, I.
    European Judaism: A Journal for the New Europe , vol. 56, no. 1
    Contributions to Journals: Special Issues
  • Introduction Displacement, Memory and the Visual Arts: Second-Generation (Jewish) Artists

    Louwagie, F., Wiltshire, I.
    European Judaism: A Journal for the New Europe , vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 1-21
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Youth Perspectives and Political Cartooning on the Covid-19 Pandemic: Public Engagement through the Arts

    Louwagie, F., Harvey-Hobbs, R.
    Contributions to Conferences: Oral Presentations
  • Community-building through political cartoons in Kenya, South Africa and Côte d’Ivoire

    Louwagie, F., Weidman, S., Bamberg, I., Karimi Mwiti, B., Thembekile Levine, D., Illingworth, J.
    Working Papers: Working Papers
  • Covid in Cartoons: critical literacy and resilience during the pandemic

    Louwagie, F.
    Contributions to Conferences: Oral Presentations
  • L'engagement désengagé d'Henri Raczymow’

    Louwagie, F.
    Continuum: revue des écrivains israéliens de langue française, vol. 19
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Coming of age through bande dessinée: An interview with Michel Kichka

    Louwagie, F., Lambert, S., Kichka, M.
    European Comic Art, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 51-73
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Tradition and Innovation in Franco-Belgian bande dessinée: Introduction

    Louwagie, F., Lambert, S.
    Tradition and Innovation in Franco-Belgian bande dessinée, pp. 1-12
    Contributions to Journals: Editorials
  • Book review: 'Peter Davies, Wtiness Between Languages. The Translation of Holocaust Testimonies in Context, Camden House, 2018'

    Louwagie, F.
    Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 394-395
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Book review: 'Judith M. Hughes, Witnessing the Holocaust. Six Literary Testimonies, Bloomsbury, 2018'

    Louwagie, F.
    Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 395-396
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Book review: Ewa Stańczyk (ed), Comic Books, Graphic Novels and the Holocaust: Beyond Maus

    Louwagie, F., Crucifix, B.
    European Comic Art, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 89-92
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Témoignage et littérature d'après Auschwitz

    Louwagie, F.
    Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands. 383 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
  • Testifying to Genocide: A Creative and Critical Use of Memory and Testimony in Holocaust Education in the UK and Canada

    Louwagie, F., Sharples, C., Schallié, C., Webb, A.
    The Palgrave Handbook of Testimony and Culture. Jones, S., Woods, R. (eds.). Palgrave, pp. 405-427, 23 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Introduction: Key Cultural Texts in Translation

    Malmkjaer, K., Serban, A., Louwagie, F.
    Key Cultural Texts in Translation. Malmkjær, K., Serban, A., Louwagie, F. (eds.). John Benjamins Antiquariat, pp. 1-6, 6 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Key Cultural Texts in Translation

    Malmkjaer, K., Serban, A., Louwagie, F.
    John Benjamins Antiquariat. 320 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
  • Conclusion: cross-perspective on ego-history

    Braganca, M., Louwagie, F.
    Ego-histories of France and the Second World War Writing Vichy. Palgrave, pp. 299-315, 17 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Ego-histories of France and the Second World War: Writing Vichy

    Bragança, M., Louwagie, F.
    Palgrave
    Books and Reports: Books
  • Interview with Robert O. Paxton, on the writing of history and ego-history

    Paxton, R. O., Bragança, M., Louwagie, F.
    Ego-histories of France and the Second World War: Writing Vichy. Bragança, M., Louwagie, F. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 19-22, 4 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Introduction: Ego-histories, France and the Second World War

    Bragança, M., Louwagie, F.
    Ego-histories of France and the Second World War: Writing Vichy. Palgrave, pp. 3-18, 16 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Le roman graphique Irmina. Un entretien sur la discrimination, les choix personnels et la mémoire. Interview with Barbara Yelin and Alexander Korb

    Louwagie, F., Van Samang, F., Yelin, B., Korb, A.
    Témoigner. Entre histoire et mémoire, no. 122
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • "Et puis tu nous entraînes plus loin." Le témoignage des camps vu à travers le regard des préfaciers

    Louwagie, F.
    Témoignages sous influence. La vérité du sensible. Presses de l'Université Laval, pp. 83-102, 20 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Le roman graphique Irmina. Un entretien sur la discrimination, les choix personnels et la mémoire: Interview conducted by Fransiska Louwagie and Fabian Van Samang.

    Yelin Barbara, B., Korb, A., Louwagie, F.
    Trace de Mémoire, no. 17, pp. 5-13
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • De Striproman Irmina.: Een vraaggesprek over discriminatie, keuzevrijheid en herinnering. Interview conducted by Fransiska Louwagie and Fabian Van Samang.

    Korb, A., Louwagie, F., Van Samang, F.
    Sporen van herinnering, no. 17, pp. 5-13
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Après Maus: Témoignage et bande dessinée dans l’œuvre de Michel Kichka

    Louwagie, F.
    Carrières de témoins de conflits contemporains (3) Les témoins réflexifs, les témoins pollinisateurs. Presses universitaires de Nancy, pp. 107-119, 13 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Anne Frank sur scène: Le succès d'un symbole. Interview with David Barnouw

    Louwagie, F., Scanlon, A., Van Samang, F., Barnouw, D.
    Témoigner. Entre histoire et mémoire, no. 119, pp. 28-31
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Anne Frank sur scène: le succès d'un symbole. Interview with David Barnouw

    Louwagie, F., Scanlon, A., Van Samang, F., Barnouw, D.
    Traces de memoire: pedagogie et transmission, no. 13, pp. 1-4
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Le génocide vu par les dessinateurs de presse et les photographes

    louwagie, F., sharples, J. M.
    Traces de memoire, no. 13, pp. 13-14
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Piotr Rawicz, un témoin venu de l’Est

    Louwagie, F.
    Carrières testimoniales (2). Presses universitaires de Nancy, pp. 357-373, 17 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • À l’ombre de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. La violence de masse en Croatie

    Korb, A., Louwagie, F. (ed.)
    Traces de Mémoire. Pédagogie et transmission, vol. 9, pp. 4-9
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Un roman au creux de l'expérience: Le Sang du ciel ou l'art d'un échec annoncé

    Louwagie, F.
    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 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Préface:: Un ciel de sang et de cendres. Piotr Rawicz ou la solitude du témoin

    Dayan Rosenman, A., Louwagie, F.
    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 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Pronominagebruik en identiteit in Nederlandstalige deportatieverhalen uit het Breendonkcorpus

    Van De Mieroop, D., Louwagie, F.
    Témoigner. Entre histoire et mémoire
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Raymond Federman: l'autotraduction comme projet esthétique

    Louwagie, F.
    L'Autotraduction aux frontières de la langue et de la culture. Tanqueiro, H., Lagarde, C. (eds.). Editions Lambert Lucas
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Raymond Federman: l'autotraduction comme projet esthétique et critique: Autotraduction: frontières de la langue et de la culture

    Louwagie, F.
    Working Papers: Working Papers
  • Un ciel de sang et de cendres. Piotr Rawicz et la solitude du témoin

    Louwagie, F. (ed.), Dayan Rosenman, A. (ed.)
    Kimé, Paris. 476 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
  • Broder une Histoire: Le rapport de Brodeck de Philippe Claudel

    Louwagie, F.
    Traces de mémoire, no. 5, pp. 7-11
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Voortborduren op de Geschiedenis: Het verslag van Brodeck van Philippe Claudel

    Louwagie, F.
    Sporen van herinnering, no. 5
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Après la Shoah: la poétique de l’absence

    Louwagie, F.
    @nalyses. Revue de critique et de théorie littéraire, vol. 7, no. 1
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Le témoignage face à l'histoire littéraire: transformations esthétiques et critiques

    Louwagie, F., Jurgenson, L., Prstojevic, A.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
  • Le témoignage face à l'histoire littéraire: transformattions esthétiques et critiques

    Louwagie, F.
    Des témoins aux héritiers. L'écriture de la Shoah et la culture européenne. Jurgenson, L., Prstojevic, A. (eds.). Editions Petra, pp. 241-259, 19 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Parcours testimoniaux: rééditions, réécritures: Cartest 1: Carrières testimoniales

    Louwagie, F., Fleury, B., Walter, J.
    Contributions to Conferences: Papers
  • Sporen van herinnering. Pedagogie en geschiedenisoverdracht

    Louwagie, F., Van Samang, F. (ed.)
    Brussels: Auschwitz Foundation Brussels.
    Other Contributions: Other Contributions
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