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Yr Athro Claire Gorrara
Dean for Research and Innovation for the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor of French Studies
- Gorrara@caerdydd.ac.uk
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- 66a Plas y Parc, Ystafell 2.30, Cathays, Caerdydd, CF10 3AS
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My research covers three main areas: narratives and memories of the Second World War in France, post-war French crime fiction and French photography and visual cultures. These areas are connected by my interest in under-represented or marginalised voices in French culture and the ways in which they mediate processes of social and cultural change. In relation to the Second World War, I have worked extensively on the autobiographies, prose fiction and memoirs of French women writers and war. I have published articles, three monographs and four edited collections of essays. I am currently researching visual cultures of war and working on two projects: photography and representations of the Liberation of Europe 1944-5 and representations of war in francophone comics and graphic novels. In addition, I am the academic lead for two modern languages projects that work in partnership with schools to support the visibility and uptake of modern languages in schools in Wales.
Cyhoeddiad
2022
- Gorrara, C. 2022. Women's experiences of the second world war: exile, occupation and everyday life [book review]. Cultural and Social History 19/5, pp. 628-629. (10.1080/14780038.2022.2148611)
- Allbeson, T. and Gorrara, C. 2022. Visual histories of postwar reconstruction: special issue introduction. Journal of War and Culture Studies 15(2), pp. 125-132. (10.1080/17526272.2022.2065121)
- Allbeson, T. and Gorrara, C. 2022. Domestic archives of empire: photographing Burma and reconstructing British imperialism for the postwar moment. Journal of War and Culture Studies 15(2), pp. 233-259. (10.1080/17526272.2022.2065120)
2021
- Gorrara, C. 2021. What is a language activist? Advocacy and education. In: de Medeiros, A. and Kelly, D. eds. Language Debates: Theory and Reality in Language Learning, Teaching and Research. Hodder and Stoughton, Hachette UK
2020
- Beaney, R. et al. 2020. (Re)creating modern languages: conversations about the curriculum in UK higher education. Project Report. [Online]. Creative Multilingualism. Available at: https://www.creativeml.ox.ac.uk/blog/exploring-multilingualism/recreating-modern-languages-toolkit
- Gorrara, C., Jenkins, L., Jepson, E. and MacHin, T. 2020. Multilingual perspectives: preparing for language learning in the new curriculum for Wales. Curriculum Journal 31(2), pp. 244-257. (10.1002/curj.11)
- Gorrara, C., Jenkins, L., Jepson, E. and Llewelyn Machin, T. 2020. Persbectifau amlieithog: paratoi ar gyfer dysgu ieithoedd yn y cwricwlwm newydd i Gymru. Curriculum Journal 31(2), pp. e70-e84. (10.1002/curj.46)
- Gorrara, C. 2020. Recrafting the past: Graphic novels, the Third Generation and twenty-first century representations of the Holocaust. In: Lassner, P. and Aarons, V. eds. Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 575-592.
2019
- Gorrara, C., Jenkins, L. and Mosley, N. 2019. Modern languages and mentoring: Lessons from digital learning in Wales. Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies (MEITS). Available at: http://www.meits.org/policy-papers/paper/modern-languages-and-mentoring-lessons-from-digital-learning-in-wales
- Blake, S. and Gorrara, C. 2019. Evaluating student mentoring as an intervention to support modern foreign language learning in secondary schools in Wales. Cylchgrawn Addysg Cymru / Wales Journal of Education 21(1), pp. 24-45. (10.16922/wje.21.1.3)
- Gorrara, C. 2019. Legacies of war: Remembering prisoner of war experiences in French comics about the Second World War. In: Horton, I., Mickwitz, N. and Hague, I. eds. Contexts of Violence in Comics. London and New York: Routledge
2018
- Gorrara, C. 2018. Fashion and the femmes tondues: Lee Miller, Vogue and representing liberation France. French Cultural Studies 29(4), pp. 330-344. (10.1177/0957155818791889)
- Gorrara, C. 2018. Not seeing Auschwitz: Memory, generation and representations of the Holocaust in twenty-first century French comics. In: Stancyzk, E. ed. Comic Books, Graphic Novels and the Holocaust: Beyond Maus. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 111-126.
- Gorrara, C. 2018. Black October: comics, memory and cultural representations of 17 October 1961. French Politics, Culture and Society 36(1), pp. 128-147. (10.3167/fpcs.2018.360106)
- Gorrara, C. 2018. Not seeing Auschwitz: memory, generation and representations of the Holocaust in twenty-first century French comics. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 17(1), pp. 111-126. (10.1080/14725886.2017.1382107)
- Gorrara, C. 2018. Speaking from Wales: building a modern languages community in an era of Brexit. In: Kelly, M. ed. Languages after Brexit How the UK Speaks to the World. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 149-158., (10.1007/978-3-319-65169-9_13)
2016
- Gorrara, C. 2016. What the liberator saw: British war photography, Picture Post and the Normandy Campaign. Journal of War and Culture Studies 9(4), pp. 303-318. (10.1080/17526272.2016.1159003)
2014
- Gorrara, C. J. 2014. Figuring memory as palimpsest: Rereading cultural memories of Jewish persecution in French crime fiction about the Second World War. In: Kimyongur, A. and Wigelsworth, A. eds. Rewriting Wrongs: French Crime Fiction and the Palimpsest. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 15-30.
2013
- Gorrara, C. J. 2013. Le passé recomposé: memoire et postmemory dans 'Des gens très bien' d'Alexandre Jardin. In: Dambre, M. ed. Mémoires occupeés: fictions françaises et seconde guerre mondiale. Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, pp. 63-70.
2012
- Diamond, H. and Gorrara, C. J. 2012. Reframing war: histories and memories of the Second World War in the photography of Julia Pirotte. Modern and Contemporary France 20(4), pp. 453-471. (10.1080/09639489.2012.720434)
- Gorrara, C. J. 2012. French crime fiction and the Second World War: past crimes, present memories. Cultural History of Modern War. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
2011
- Gorrara, C. J., Feldner, H. M. and Passmore, K. 2011. Introduction. In: Feldner, H. M., Gorrara, C. J. and Passmore, K. eds. The Lost Decade? The 1950s in European History, Politics, Society and Culture. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 1-9.
- Feldner, H. M., Gorrara, C. J. and Passmore, K. eds. 2011. The lost decade? The 1950s in European history, politics, society and culture. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholar Press.
- Gorrara, C. J. 2011. Conflicted masculinities: figures of resistance in French crime fiction. In: Hall, K. and Jones, K. N. eds. Constructions of Conflict: Transmitting Memories of the Past in European Historiography, Culture and Media. Cultural History and Literary Imagination Vol. 15. New York: Peter Lang, pp. 93-110.
2010
- Gorrara, C. J. 2010. Forgotten crimes?: Representing Jewish experience of the Second World War in French crime fiction. South Central Review 27(1-2), pp. 3-20. (10.1353/scr.0.0078)
2009
- Gorrara, C. J. ed. 2009. French crime fiction. European Crime Fictions. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
- Gorrara, C. J. 2009. Introduction. In: Gorrara, C. J. ed. French Crime Fiction. European Crime Fictions Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 1-13.
- Gorrara, C. J. 2009. Post-war French crime fiction: the advent of the Roman Noir. In: Gorrara, C. J. ed. French Crime Fiction. European Crime Fictions Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 54-70.
- Gorrara, C. J. 2009. Dramatic and traumatic: French crime fiction and the reconstruction of France. In: Hardwick, L. ed. New Approaches to Crime in French Literature, Culture and Film. Modern French Identities Vol. 85. New York: Peter Lang, pp. 121-136.
- Gorrara, C. J. 2009. Through the looking glass: defeats of detection in Sebastien Japrisot's L'Été meurtrier. In: Hurcombe, M. and Kemp, S. eds. The Art of Crime. Faux Titre Vol. 329. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 151-164.
2008
- Gorrara, C. J. and Topping, M. E. 2008. Photography and the cultural encounter in François Maspero's and Nicolas Bouvier's Chronique japonaise. Journal of Romance Studies 8(1), pp. 61-75. (10.3828/jrs.8.1.61)
- Gorrara, C. and Feldner, H. 2008. Introduction: ‘Europe in the 1950s: The “Lost” Decade?’. New Readings 9, pp. i-i. (10.18573/newreadings.59)
- Feldner, H. and Gorrara, C. J. eds. 2008. Europe in the 1950s: The 'lost' decade [special issue of New Readings, vol. 9]. Cardiff: Cardiff School of Modern Languages.
2007
- Gorrara, C. J. 2007. Revolt and recuperation: masculinities and the Roman noir in immediate post-war France. In: Forth, C. and Taithe, B. eds. French Masculinities: History, Culture and Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 157-171.
2005
- Gorrara, C. J. 2005. Reflections on Crime and Punishment: Memories of the Holocaust in Recent French Crime Fiction. Yale French Studies 108, pp. 131-145.
2004
- Diamond, H. and Gorrara, C. J. 2004. Occupation memories: French history and the Aubrac affair in the 1990s. In: Kidd, W. and Murdoch, B. O. eds. Memory and Memorials: The Commemorative Century. Ashgate, pp. 233-244.
2003
- Gorrara, C. J. 2003. Cultural Intersections: the American Hard-Boiled Detective Novel and Early French Roman Noir. The Modern Language Review 98(3), pp. 590-601. (10.2307/3738287)
- Gorrara, C. J. 2003. The Roman noir in post-war French culture. Oxford Studies in Modern European Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Diamond, H. and Gorrara, C. 2003. Facing the past: French wartime memories at the millennium. In: Milner, S. and Parsons, N. eds. Reinventing France: State and society in the twenty-first century. French politics, society and culture UK: Palgrave Macmillian, pp. 173-185., (10.1057/9781403948182)
2000
- Gorrara, C. and Motta, V. 2000. Introduction: ‘Identity, Gender, Politics’. New Readings 6, pp. 1-4. (10.18573/newreadings.42)
1998
- Meyer, F. and Gorrara, C. 1998. Introduction. New Readings 4, pp. 1-5. (10.18573/newreadings.23)
1997
- Burdett, C. and Gorrara, C. 1997. Introduction. New Readings 3, pp. 1-5. (10.18573/newreadings.16)
1996
- Gorrara, C. and Burdett, C. 1996. Introduction. New Readings 2, pp. 1-6. (10.18573/newreadings.9)
1995
- Gorrara, C. and Burdett, C. 1995. Introduction. New Readings 1, pp. 1-4. (10.18573/newreadings.4)
0
- Gorrara, C. J. . Conclusion and annotated bibliography. In: Gorrara, C. J. ed. French Crime Fiction. European Crime Fictions Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 125-134.
Articles
- Gorrara, C. 2022. Women's experiences of the second world war: exile, occupation and everyday life [book review]. Cultural and Social History 19/5, pp. 628-629. (10.1080/14780038.2022.2148611)
- Allbeson, T. and Gorrara, C. 2022. Visual histories of postwar reconstruction: special issue introduction. Journal of War and Culture Studies 15(2), pp. 125-132. (10.1080/17526272.2022.2065121)
- Allbeson, T. and Gorrara, C. 2022. Domestic archives of empire: photographing Burma and reconstructing British imperialism for the postwar moment. Journal of War and Culture Studies 15(2), pp. 233-259. (10.1080/17526272.2022.2065120)
- Gorrara, C., Jenkins, L., Jepson, E. and MacHin, T. 2020. Multilingual perspectives: preparing for language learning in the new curriculum for Wales. Curriculum Journal 31(2), pp. 244-257. (10.1002/curj.11)
- Gorrara, C., Jenkins, L., Jepson, E. and Llewelyn Machin, T. 2020. Persbectifau amlieithog: paratoi ar gyfer dysgu ieithoedd yn y cwricwlwm newydd i Gymru. Curriculum Journal 31(2), pp. e70-e84. (10.1002/curj.46)
- Blake, S. and Gorrara, C. 2019. Evaluating student mentoring as an intervention to support modern foreign language learning in secondary schools in Wales. Cylchgrawn Addysg Cymru / Wales Journal of Education 21(1), pp. 24-45. (10.16922/wje.21.1.3)
- Gorrara, C. 2018. Fashion and the femmes tondues: Lee Miller, Vogue and representing liberation France. French Cultural Studies 29(4), pp. 330-344. (10.1177/0957155818791889)
- Gorrara, C. 2018. Black October: comics, memory and cultural representations of 17 October 1961. French Politics, Culture and Society 36(1), pp. 128-147. (10.3167/fpcs.2018.360106)
- Gorrara, C. 2018. Not seeing Auschwitz: memory, generation and representations of the Holocaust in twenty-first century French comics. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 17(1), pp. 111-126. (10.1080/14725886.2017.1382107)
- Gorrara, C. 2016. What the liberator saw: British war photography, Picture Post and the Normandy Campaign. Journal of War and Culture Studies 9(4), pp. 303-318. (10.1080/17526272.2016.1159003)
- Diamond, H. and Gorrara, C. J. 2012. Reframing war: histories and memories of the Second World War in the photography of Julia Pirotte. Modern and Contemporary France 20(4), pp. 453-471. (10.1080/09639489.2012.720434)
- Gorrara, C. J. 2010. Forgotten crimes?: Representing Jewish experience of the Second World War in French crime fiction. South Central Review 27(1-2), pp. 3-20. (10.1353/scr.0.0078)
- Gorrara, C. J. and Topping, M. E. 2008. Photography and the cultural encounter in François Maspero's and Nicolas Bouvier's Chronique japonaise. Journal of Romance Studies 8(1), pp. 61-75. (10.3828/jrs.8.1.61)
- Gorrara, C. and Feldner, H. 2008. Introduction: ‘Europe in the 1950s: The “Lost” Decade?’. New Readings 9, pp. i-i. (10.18573/newreadings.59)
- Gorrara, C. J. 2005. Reflections on Crime and Punishment: Memories of the Holocaust in Recent French Crime Fiction. Yale French Studies 108, pp. 131-145.
- Gorrara, C. J. 2003. Cultural Intersections: the American Hard-Boiled Detective Novel and Early French Roman Noir. The Modern Language Review 98(3), pp. 590-601. (10.2307/3738287)
- Gorrara, C. and Motta, V. 2000. Introduction: ‘Identity, Gender, Politics’. New Readings 6, pp. 1-4. (10.18573/newreadings.42)
- Meyer, F. and Gorrara, C. 1998. Introduction. New Readings 4, pp. 1-5. (10.18573/newreadings.23)
- Burdett, C. and Gorrara, C. 1997. Introduction. New Readings 3, pp. 1-5. (10.18573/newreadings.16)
- Gorrara, C. and Burdett, C. 1996. Introduction. New Readings 2, pp. 1-6. (10.18573/newreadings.9)
- Gorrara, C. and Burdett, C. 1995. Introduction. New Readings 1, pp. 1-4. (10.18573/newreadings.4)
Book sections
- Gorrara, C. 2021. What is a language activist? Advocacy and education. In: de Medeiros, A. and Kelly, D. eds. Language Debates: Theory and Reality in Language Learning, Teaching and Research. Hodder and Stoughton, Hachette UK
- Gorrara, C. 2020. Recrafting the past: Graphic novels, the Third Generation and twenty-first century representations of the Holocaust. In: Lassner, P. and Aarons, V. eds. Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 575-592.
- Gorrara, C. 2019. Legacies of war: Remembering prisoner of war experiences in French comics about the Second World War. In: Horton, I., Mickwitz, N. and Hague, I. eds. Contexts of Violence in Comics. London and New York: Routledge
- Gorrara, C. 2018. Not seeing Auschwitz: Memory, generation and representations of the Holocaust in twenty-first century French comics. In: Stancyzk, E. ed. Comic Books, Graphic Novels and the Holocaust: Beyond Maus. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 111-126.
- Gorrara, C. 2018. Speaking from Wales: building a modern languages community in an era of Brexit. In: Kelly, M. ed. Languages after Brexit How the UK Speaks to the World. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 149-158., (10.1007/978-3-319-65169-9_13)
- Gorrara, C. J. 2014. Figuring memory as palimpsest: Rereading cultural memories of Jewish persecution in French crime fiction about the Second World War. In: Kimyongur, A. and Wigelsworth, A. eds. Rewriting Wrongs: French Crime Fiction and the Palimpsest. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 15-30.
- Gorrara, C. J. 2013. Le passé recomposé: memoire et postmemory dans 'Des gens très bien' d'Alexandre Jardin. In: Dambre, M. ed. Mémoires occupeés: fictions françaises et seconde guerre mondiale. Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, pp. 63-70.
- Gorrara, C. J., Feldner, H. M. and Passmore, K. 2011. Introduction. In: Feldner, H. M., Gorrara, C. J. and Passmore, K. eds. The Lost Decade? The 1950s in European History, Politics, Society and Culture. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 1-9.
- Gorrara, C. J. 2011. Conflicted masculinities: figures of resistance in French crime fiction. In: Hall, K. and Jones, K. N. eds. Constructions of Conflict: Transmitting Memories of the Past in European Historiography, Culture and Media. Cultural History and Literary Imagination Vol. 15. New York: Peter Lang, pp. 93-110.
- Gorrara, C. J. 2009. Introduction. In: Gorrara, C. J. ed. French Crime Fiction. European Crime Fictions Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 1-13.
- Gorrara, C. J. 2009. Post-war French crime fiction: the advent of the Roman Noir. In: Gorrara, C. J. ed. French Crime Fiction. European Crime Fictions Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 54-70.
- Gorrara, C. J. 2009. Dramatic and traumatic: French crime fiction and the reconstruction of France. In: Hardwick, L. ed. New Approaches to Crime in French Literature, Culture and Film. Modern French Identities Vol. 85. New York: Peter Lang, pp. 121-136.
- Gorrara, C. J. 2009. Through the looking glass: defeats of detection in Sebastien Japrisot's L'Été meurtrier. In: Hurcombe, M. and Kemp, S. eds. The Art of Crime. Faux Titre Vol. 329. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 151-164.
- Gorrara, C. J. 2007. Revolt and recuperation: masculinities and the Roman noir in immediate post-war France. In: Forth, C. and Taithe, B. eds. French Masculinities: History, Culture and Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 157-171.
- Diamond, H. and Gorrara, C. J. 2004. Occupation memories: French history and the Aubrac affair in the 1990s. In: Kidd, W. and Murdoch, B. O. eds. Memory and Memorials: The Commemorative Century. Ashgate, pp. 233-244.
- Diamond, H. and Gorrara, C. 2003. Facing the past: French wartime memories at the millennium. In: Milner, S. and Parsons, N. eds. Reinventing France: State and society in the twenty-first century. French politics, society and culture UK: Palgrave Macmillian, pp. 173-185., (10.1057/9781403948182)
- Gorrara, C. J. . Conclusion and annotated bibliography. In: Gorrara, C. J. ed. French Crime Fiction. European Crime Fictions Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 125-134.
Books
- Gorrara, C. J. 2012. French crime fiction and the Second World War: past crimes, present memories. Cultural History of Modern War. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
- Feldner, H. M., Gorrara, C. J. and Passmore, K. eds. 2011. The lost decade? The 1950s in European history, politics, society and culture. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholar Press.
- Gorrara, C. J. ed. 2009. French crime fiction. European Crime Fictions. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
- Feldner, H. and Gorrara, C. J. eds. 2008. Europe in the 1950s: The 'lost' decade [special issue of New Readings, vol. 9]. Cardiff: Cardiff School of Modern Languages.
- Gorrara, C. J. 2003. The Roman noir in post-war French culture. Oxford Studies in Modern European Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Monographs
- Beaney, R. et al. 2020. (Re)creating modern languages: conversations about the curriculum in UK higher education. Project Report. [Online]. Creative Multilingualism. Available at: https://www.creativeml.ox.ac.uk/blog/exploring-multilingualism/recreating-modern-languages-toolkit
- Gorrara, C., Jenkins, L. and Mosley, N. 2019. Modern languages and mentoring: Lessons from digital learning in Wales. Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies (MEITS). Available at: http://www.meits.org/policy-papers/paper/modern-languages-and-mentoring-lessons-from-digital-learning-in-wales
- Gorrara, C. 2018. Speaking from Wales: building a modern languages community in an era of Brexit. In: Kelly, M. ed. Languages after Brexit How the UK Speaks to the World. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 149-158., (10.1007/978-3-319-65169-9_13)
- Diamond, H. and Gorrara, C. J. 2012. Reframing war: histories and memories of the Second World War in the photography of Julia Pirotte. Modern and Contemporary France 20(4), pp. 453-471. (10.1080/09639489.2012.720434)
- Gorrara, C. J. 2012. French crime fiction and the Second World War: past crimes, present memories. Cultural History of Modern War. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
- Feldner, H. M., Gorrara, C. J. and Passmore, K. eds. 2011. The lost decade? The 1950s in European history, politics, society and culture. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholar Press.
- Gorrara, C. J. 2011. Conflicted masculinities: figures of resistance in French crime fiction. In: Hall, K. and Jones, K. N. eds. Constructions of Conflict: Transmitting Memories of the Past in European Historiography, Culture and Media. Cultural History and Literary Imagination Vol. 15. New York: Peter Lang, pp. 93-110.
- Gorrara, C. J. 2010. Forgotten crimes?: Representing Jewish experience of the Second World War in French crime fiction. South Central Review 27(1-2), pp. 3-20. (10.1353/scr.0.0078)
- Gorrara, C. J. ed. 2009. French crime fiction. European Crime Fictions. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
- Gorrara, C. J. 2009. Dramatic and traumatic: French crime fiction and the reconstruction of France. In: Hardwick, L. ed. New Approaches to Crime in French Literature, Culture and Film. Modern French Identities Vol. 85. New York: Peter Lang, pp. 121-136.
- Gorrara, C. J. 2009. Through the looking glass: defeats of detection in Sebastien Japrisot's L'Été meurtrier. In: Hurcombe, M. and Kemp, S. eds. The Art of Crime. Faux Titre Vol. 329. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 151-164.
- Gorrara, C. J. and Topping, M. E. 2008. Photography and the cultural encounter in François Maspero's and Nicolas Bouvier's Chronique japonaise. Journal of Romance Studies 8(1), pp. 61-75. (10.3828/jrs.8.1.61)
- Gorrara, C. J. 2007. Revolt and recuperation: masculinities and the Roman noir in immediate post-war France. In: Forth, C. and Taithe, B. eds. French Masculinities: History, Culture and Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 157-171.
- Gorrara, C. J. 2005. Reflections on Crime and Punishment: Memories of the Holocaust in Recent French Crime Fiction. Yale French Studies 108, pp. 131-145.
- Gorrara, C. J. 2003. Cultural Intersections: the American Hard-Boiled Detective Novel and Early French Roman Noir. The Modern Language Review 98(3), pp. 590-601. (10.2307/3738287)
- Gorrara, C. J. 2003. The Roman noir in post-war French culture. Oxford Studies in Modern European Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ymchwil
Research Profile
My research centres on visual cultures and memories of war in France. I am currently working on two interrelated projects:
Photography and the Liberation of France, 1944-46: This project explores photographic representations of the liberation of France and the cultural narratives of liberation that these images have come to embody. This project has centred thus far on the work of the British Army Film and Photography Unit and the liberation of Normandy, analysing the cultural narratives of occupied France that such photographs represented for a British reading public when published in popular magazines in the summer of 1944. This work has been published on-line in the Journal of War and Culture Studies (2016). The second phase of this project will explore photographic representations of women, above all 'les tondues', women who had their heads shaved following the liberation of their towns/region in 1944-5, in British press and film.
Comic Books and Memories of War: This project explores comic books and representations of war in a francophone frame. One forthcoming publication will focus on the Algerian War and French comic books. This will be published in the journal French Politics, Culture and Society. A second article examines the work of second and third generation French authors and family memories of the Holocaust. This will appear in a special issue of the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies devoted to comics and the Holocaust. A further commissioned chapter will explore the French comic book and the resurgence of cultural memories of French prisoners of war during the Second World War.
Research Impact
I am the academic lead for a pan-Wales project that mobilises mentoring to improve the attitudes of Welsh pupils towards modern languages and increase take up at GCSE. This project is funded by the Welsh Government and has been developed in partnership with the Universities of Aberystwyth, Bangor and Swansea in collaboration with the 4 educational Welsh consortia.
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/modern-languages/about-us/engagement/foreign-language-student-mentoring
The project trains university undergraduate modern linguists to act as mentors to pupils in Year 8 and 9. It has been in place in 54 of Wales 203 secondary schools to date. It is having a signifiicant impact on the numbers of students choosing languages at GCSE, as well as attitudes towards languages, more then doubling the national average for Welsh pupils electing to study languages at GCSE. The project promotes the broader benefits of intercultural communication and supports aspirations towards university study for more disadvantaged groups.
I have written on this subject for The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/how-mentoring-can-improve-modern-languages-uptake-in-schools-65380 and have an chapter forthcoming on Wales, Brexit and modern languages which profiles the mentoring project.
Wider Contribution to the Academic Community
Co-series editor of two series with University of Wales Press: French and Francophone Studies with H. Diamond (Cardiff University) and European Crime Fiction with G. Pieri (Royal Holloway, University of London) and S. Godsland (Amsterdam University).
2007- : Editorial board member of Synergies Royaume Uni et Irlande, an interdisciplinary journal allied to GERFLINT, Groupe d’Etudes et de Recherches pour le Français Langue Internationale.
Referee for the following journals: French Studies, Romance Studies, Modern and Contemporary France, Modern Language Review, Journal of Law and Society, Feminist Review, Témoigner, History, Lublin Journal of Modern Languages, Forum for Modern Language Studies, Australian Journal of French Studies, The Translator
Reader and reviewer for the following publishers: Oxford University Press, Routledge, University of Wales Press, University of Manchester Press, Berghahn Books, Palgrave/Macmillan.
Addysgu
I was on a year's research leave (1 August 2016-31 July 2017).
My teaching responsibilities for 2017-8 are:
Undergraduate
First Year (ML68187): team taught: National and Global Perspectives on France
Final Year option (ML6367) Cultures of Occupation and Liberation: France in the 1940s
Final Year French Dissertations: Women and the Second World War in France; multilingualism in Welsh-medium schools
Postgraduate Research
I have co-supervised 6 PhDs to completion and 1 MPhil on the following topics:
- 'Myths and Oppression of Gendered and Racialised Subjects in the Prose Fiction of Rosario Castellanos' (passed May 2003)
- 'Representations of Travel and Memory in 1960s and 1970s French- and German-Language Literature' (passed April 2004), AHRC-funded studentship
- 'Comparative Perspective on the Poetic Course of Arthur Rimbaud, William Blake and Sohrab Sepehri' (passed 2006)
- 'Constructions of the Algerian War Appelés in French Cultural Memory' (passed April 2012) AHRC-funded studentship
- 'Cultural Representations of Italians in Wales (1920s-2010s)' (passed April 2012)
- 'Sapphic spectres: Interwar German women’s fiction’ (MPhil, passed April 2014)
- 'A Study of Scanlation and Japanese Manga' (passed March 2015)
I am currently co-supervising 3 PhDs in the following research areas:
1. Memory, translation and the Holocaust in French texts
2. British women in occupied France (AHRC BGP 2 funded)
3. Francophone graphic novels, translation and adaptation
I would welcome applications from those wishing to work on questions of cultural memory, war and modern France, literary and visual narratives of conflict, both within France and in a broader European frame, and French crime fiction and film.
External Examiner for PhDs
University of Kent (2010 and 2016), University of Leeds (2010), Birkbeck, University of London (2011), Université de la Bretagne Occidentale (2011), University of Auckland (2014).
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Education and Qualifications
1994: DPhil (French Studies): Oxford University
1991: Masters in European Literature (Distinction): Oxford University
1989: Joint Honours degree in French and English (First Class): Leeds University
Career Overview
1994- present: Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, Professor of French Studies: Cardiff University, School of Modern Languages.
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2017 (April): Visiting Research Fellow, KU Leuven
2015: Cardiff University, Celebrating Excellence Awards: Outstanding Contribution to Leadership
2012: Elected Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales
2011: Elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
2011: Visiting Fellow, Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London
Awards
2017-18: Welsh Government: £139,548: Raising the Profile of Modern Foreign Languages: A Mentoring Initiative Phase II
2017: Welsh Government: £40,000: Turbo-Tutoring: Supporting Attainment in AS Level Modern Foreign Languages
2015-16:Welsh Government: £117,305: Raising the Profile of Modern Foreign Languages: A Mentoring Initiative Phase I
2015: Welsh Government: £56,184: Raising the Profile of Modern Foreign Languages: A Mentoring Initiative Phase I
2008: Cardiff Humanities Research Institute (CHRI): £1,680: Cardiff Distinguished Visiting Fellow scheme: to fund the visit of Dr Maurizio Ascari (Bologna University) as part of the Crime Narratives in Context Research Network activities
2007: Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France: £350.00 Conference support: ‘The Lost Decade: the 1950s in European History, Society, Economy and Culture’, Cardiff University, 11-13 July 2007
2007: British Academy small grant fund: £2,292. Research support for the project: ‘Reconstructing France: Popular Culture, Crime Fictions and National Identity, 1946-58’
2002: Cassell Foundation funding: £700 and Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France funding: £200 Conference support: ‘Cultural Intersections: Noir Fiction and Film in France and Italy’ conference at the Institute of Romance Studies, London
2001-2: Leverhulme Research Fellowship: £15,646
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2017: President of the Association of University Professors and Heads of French
2016-present: Executive Committee member of the Society for French Studies
2015-2017: Executive Committee member of the Association of University Professors and Heads of French
2014- present: Academic Director of Routes into Language Cymru, pan-Wales advocacy group for modern languages: http://routesintolanguagescymru.co.uk/
2011-2014: University Council for Modern Languages representative for Wales
2007-2014: Peer Review College member of the AHRC
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2021-2024: Dean of Research and Innovation, College of Arts, Humanities and Spcial Sciences, Cardiff University
2019-2021 University Dean of Research Environment and Culture, Cardiff University
2014-16: Founding Head of the School of Modern Languages, Cardiff University
2012-14: Acting Head, then Head of the School of European Languages, Translation and Politics, Cardiff University
2008-2012: Director of Research, School of European Languages, Translation and Politics, Cardiff University
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2014-6: Head of the School of Modern Languages
2012-14: Acting Head, then Head of the School of European Languages, Translation and Politics
2008-12: Director of Research, School of European Languages, Translation and Politics
2008-2014: Joint Convenor of Crime Narratives in Context, a Cardiff University interdisciplinary research network
Meysydd goruchwyliaeth
- Languages, multilingualism and Wales
- Memory, culture and war in France
- Comics and graphic novels
- French crime fiction
