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Beatrice Ivey
Lecturer in French
Profile
Biography
I (she/her) joined the Department of Language and Linguistic Science in 2021. I have extensive experience teaching French Studies and Media Studies at the Universities of Sheffield, Stirling, and Leeds.
My research background is in French-language 20th and 21st cultural and digital production and the connection between gender and transnational memories of French colonialism. My doctoral research at the University of Leeds explored how literature, theatre and film reproduce, and sometimes challenge, the gendered tropes associated with memories of French colonialism in Algeria. This will be published as my first book with Liverpool University Press, called Performative Pasts: Gender and Transnational Memory in French and Algerian Literature, Film, and Theatre.
I have worked as a researcher at the University of Sheffield in the Department of Journalism Studies, where I worked on radio, women, and feminism in Mali and Niger. I am also very interested in representations of forced migrations. I worked at the Department of Language and Literature at the University of Stirling, conducting research for the AHRC-funded project on the French Settlers of Algeria, focusing in particular on the ways in which pied-noir memory is ‘remembered’ online. I am currently editing two publications related to representations of forced migration; a Special Issue in the Journal of Migration History considering the history of forced migration and citizenship and an edited collection for Palgrave Macmillan about contemporary cultural and artistic responses to the ongoing European ‘border crisis’.
Learning a foreign language change my life for the better and I am passionate about promoting and supporting multilingualism in UK schools and Universities. I am Outreach Officer in the Department and I hold the same role for the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France.
