Dr Karine Deslandes
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Lecturer in French Studies
- French Language Co-ordinator for the Degree Programme
- French Outreach officer
- Departmental Library Liaison
- Joint Honours Programmes Liaison and Promotion Officer
Office
Miller 113Building location
Miller BuildingAreas of interest
Teaching
I have over twenty years’ experience of teaching French language and culture modules in Higher Education institutions in Ireland and Britain. I have taught language modules (integrated skills) at all levels from ab-initio to advanced levels. As my disciplinary background is in Cultural Studies, I have also taught Culture modules on French politics, regional cultures and identities in France, and the Francophonie.
Research
My research profile is interdisciplinary: politics/international relations/history/media discourse analysis. I studied the representation of the Northern Ireland Conflict (1968-1998) in the French press (newspapers from different political persuasions). I published a monograph: Regard français sur le conflit nord-irlandais, in 2013 and then co-edited Civil War and Narrative: Testimony, Historiography, Memory in 2017.
Teaching
- I convene FR1L1 (Beginners French Language), FR1L2 and FR2L2 (Intermediate French Language), FR1L3, FR2L3, FR3L3 (Advanced French Language I) and FR3L6 (Advanced French Language III).
- I teach on the first-year modules FR1L1 and FR1L2 and the second-year modules FR2L2 and FR2L4 as well as the final year module FR3L6.
Academic qualifications
- BA in Applied Languages (German, English) (University Francois Rabelais of Tours, France)
- MA in Irish Studies (University of La Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3, France)
- PhD in French Studies (University of Ulster, UK)
- Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, UK
Selected publications
- ‘Immixtion du conflit nord-irlandais dans la vie politique française : le reportage des grèves de la faim en 1981 dans L’Humanité et Libération’, Études Irlandaises 35.1, 55-67, 2010.
- ‘L’Humanité et Libération : porte-parole français de la rébellion irlandaise ?’, in Y. Bévant, A. Goarzin & G. Neville (eds), France, Ireland and Rebellion, 115-132 (Rennes : Tir, 2011).
- ‘Les années noires en Irlande du Nord : la mémoire collective française des Troubles (1968-1998) à travers le reportage des journalistes français’, in S. Mikowski (ed.), Histoire et mémoire en France et en Irlande / History and Memory in France and Ireland, 210-236 (Reims : ÉPURE, 2011).
- Regard français sur le conflit nord-irlandais (Peter Lang, 2013), 256 pp. [reviewed in Etudes Irlandaises 39.1, 229-231, 2014].
- ‘Ian Paisley: Generating French Perceptions of an Ulster Loyalist Leader’, in B. Keatinge & M. Pierce (eds), France and Ireland in the Public Imagination, Reimagining Ireland series Vol.55, 115-132 (Bern: Peter Lang, 2014).
- Civil War and Narrative: Testimony, Historiography, Memory (edited with F. Mourlon and B. Tribout), (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
- ‘French Perspectives on the Northern Ireland Peace Process and the Good Friday/ Belfast Agreement’. Open Library of Humanities, 4(1): 28 (2018), pp. 1-28.
- ‘Sorj Chalandon’ and ‘Serge July’ entries, in M. Abecassis, M. Block, G. Ledegen & M. Penalver Vicea (eds), Le grain de la voix dans le monde anglophone et francophone, Modern French Identities Vol. 130, The Voices Project, 251 & 269 (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019)