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French Studies in and for the Twenty-first Century

Philippe Lane and Michael Worton

Abstract

This book draws together a range of scholars to examine the state of French Studies in the UK, taking account of the variety of factors that have made the discipline what it is. The book looks ahead to the place of French Studies in a world that is increasingly interdisciplinary, and where student demands, new technologies and transnational education are changing the ways in which we learn, teach, research and assess.

Keywords: French Studies, UK, interdisciplinary, student demands, new technologies, transnational education

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2011 Print ISBN-13: 9781846316555
Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: June 2013 DOI:10.5949/UPO9781846316692

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Philippe Lane, editor

Michael Worton, editor

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Notes on Contributors

Foreword: Baroness Jean Coussins Chair of the All-party Parliamentary Group on Modern Languages

Foreword: His Excellency Bernard Ernié French Ambassador to the UK

Part I: Contextualisations

1 Introduction

Philippe Lane and Michael Worton

2 A Short History of French Studies in the UK

Diana Holmes

Part II: Research and Public Engagement Strategies

3 The exception anglo-saxonne? Diversity and Viability of French Studies in the UK

Adrian Armstrong

4 Why French Studies Matters: Disciplinary Identity and Public Understanding

Charles Forsdick

5 Learning from France: The Public Impact of French Scholars in the UK since the Second World War

Michael Kelly

Part III: The Place of Women and Gender in French Studies

6 Gender and the French Language: The longue durée of French Studies in the UK

Michèle Cohen, Hilary Footitt and Amy Wygant

7 Contemporary Women's Writing in French: Future Perspectives in Formal and Informal Research Networks

Gill Rye

8 French Studies and Discourses of Sexuality

Emma Wilson

Part IV: The Place of Literature

9 Integrated Learning: Teaching Literature in French

Simon Gaunt and Nicholas Harrison

10 Oxford, Theatre and Quarrels

Alain Viala

11 Defining (or Redefining) Priorities in the Curriculum When the Good Times have Flown

William Burgwinkle

Part V: The Place of Linguistics in French Studies Today

12 French Linguistics Research and Teaching in UK and Irish HE Institutions

Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Kate Beeching, Pierre Larrivée and Florence Myles

13 The Rise of Translation

Jo Drugan and Andrew Rothwell

Part VI: Theatre, Cinema and Popular Culture

14 Teaching and Research in French Cinema1

Phil Powrie and Keith Reader

15 Popular Culture, the Final Frontier: How Far Should We Boldly Go?

David Looseley

Part VII: Area Studies, Postcolonial Studies and War and Culture Studies

16 An Area Studies Approach in European and Global Contexts: French Studies in Portsmouth

Emmanuel Godin and Tony Chafer

17 French Studies and the Postcolonial: The Demise or the Rebirth of the French Department?

David Murphy

18 The Development of War and Culture Studies in the UK: From French Studies, Beyond, and Back Again

Nicola Cooper, Martin Hurcombe and Debra Kelly1

Part VIII: Adventures in Language Teaching

19 French Studies at the Open University: Pointers to the Future

Jim Coleman and Elodie Vialleton

20 Opportunities and Challenges of Technologically Enhanced Programmes: Online and Blended Learning at King's College London

Dominique Borel

21 French Studies and Employability at Home and Abroad: General Reflections on a Case Study

Maryse Bray, Hélène Gill, Laurence Randall

22 Sartre in Middlesex, De Beauvoir in Oxford: The Contribution of the ASMCF to the Study of France

Máire Fedelma Cross

23 Culturetheque: A New Tool for French Culture

Laurence Auer

End Matter

Appendix 1 Opening Speech. A Vast and Dynamic Field of Research and Teaching

Appendix 2 A View from France

Index