Lecturer in French Studies

Bachelor of Romance linguistics and literature (Kortrijk), Master (Licence) of Romance linguistics and literature (Leuven), Advanced Interuniversitary Master in Literary Studies, PhD (Leuven)

Contact Details

• Tel: +44 (0)116 252 2684
• Email: FL47@le.ac.uk
• Subject: French 

Research Summary

My main research focus is on French post-Holocaust literature. I’m particularly interested in survivor narratives and in the representation of the Holocaust in contemporary Francophone fiction.

As this research addresses the experience of displaced witnesses, my work also focuses on issues of exile, identity and bilingualism. As part of a research project on self-translation I undertook a three-month research stay at Harvard University in 2010, supported by a Fulbright grant and a travel grant from the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO).

Teaching

Modern French language I

20th Century Jewish Literature : Loss, Exile, Memory

Modern French language (final year)

Reinventing the Past: The French Historical Novel in the 19^th and 10^th Century

Self-translation: French Texts Across Languages and Cultures

Administrative Responsibilities

- Member of the Year Abroad Team, School of Modern Languages

- Member of the Admission Team, School of Modern Languages

- Member of the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (http://www2.le.ac.uk/centres/stanley-burton-centre/people)

- Member of the editorial board of Témoigner: entre histoire et mémoire (Auschwitz Foundation Brussels & Éditions Kimé Paris) http://www.auschwitz.be/

- Co-editor Traces de mémoire. Pédagogie et transmission/Sporen van herinnering. Pedagogie en geschiedenisoverdracht (Auschwitz Foundation Brussels) http://www.auschwitz.be/

- Member of CETRA (Centre for Translation Studies – K.U.Leuven) http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/cetra

- Member of the international interdisciplinary research project: “CARTEST: Carrières testimoniales. Les devenirs-témoins de conflits des XXe et XXIe siècles” (Coordination: Université Paul Verlaine Metz)

 Most Recent Publications

With Daniel Weyssow (Eds), La bande dessinée dans l’orbe des guerres et des genocides du XXe siècle, Thematic Issue of Témoigner. Entre histoire et mémoire. Revue pluridisciplinaire de la Fondation Auschwitz, 109 (2011), 220 p.

Lieux de mémoire et médiation narrative: Beaune-la-Rolande de Cécile Wajsbrot et Elle s’appelait Sarah de Tatiana de Rosnay, Jacques Walter – Béatrice Fleury (Eds), Qualifier, disqualifier et requalifier des lieux de détention, de concentration et d'extermination : Médiations mémorielles, Nancy, Presses universitaires de Nancy, 2011.

“The Ethical Stance of Testimony: Memory Politics and Representational Choices”, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, 12: 1 (2010), pp. 1-17.

With Pieter Vermeulen, “Michael Rothberg (interview réalisé par Fransiska Louwagie et Pieter Vermeulen): L'Holocauste et l'imagination comparative”, Témoigner. Entre histoire et mémoire. Revue pluridisciplinaire de la Fondation Auschwitz, n° 106 (2010), pp. 151-167.

“L’écriture ‘extime’ de Gérard Wajcman: blancs, notes et intertextes dans L’interdit”, Études françaises, 45: 2 (2009), pp. 131-150.

“Cultural Theory and Holocaust Remembrance in Romain Gary’s Pour Sganarelle and La Danse de Gengis Cohn”, Works and Days (Darbai ir Dienos), n° 51 (2009), pp. 97-106.

“L’imaginaire de Jorge Semprun: Narcisse entre miroir et fleur”, Orbis Litterarum, 63: 2 (2008), pp. 152-171.

“Œdipe à Jéricho. L’œuvre testimoniale d’Henri Raczymow”, Neophilologus, 92: 2 (2008), pp. 217-234.

“‘Métastases’ d’Auschwitz. Modalités et limites d’une tradition testimoniale”, Annelies Schulte Nordholt (Ed.), Écrire la mémoire de la Shoah: la génération d'après, Amsterdam – New York, Éd. Rodopi, 2008, pp. 172-185.

“Between the General and the Particular: Reminiscences of Plato’s Timaeus in Piotr Rawicz’s Le sang du ciel”, Romance Quarterly, 54: 4 (2007), pp. 326-339.