Beatrice Ivey

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.

Teaching

Teaching

Undergraduate

• French Society on Screen, Levels I and H.
• The Francophone World.
• Ab Initio French
• France & the Second World War: memory, trauma & identity

LFA

• French Level 4

Publications

Publications

Monograph

Ivey, B. Performative Pasts: Gender and Transnational Memory in French and Algerian Literature, Film, and Theatre, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. [Under contract]

Articles and book chapters

Ivey, B. (2021) ‘Remembering Disaster and Ecologies of Affect in Nina Bouraoui’s Le jour du séisme (1999) and Nathacha Appanah’s Le dernier frère (2007)’, Modern & Contemporary France, DOI: 10.1080/09639489.2021.1888904

Heywood, E. and Ivey, B.  (2021) ‘Radio as an empowering environment: how does radio broadcasting in Mali represent women’s “web of relations”?’ Feminist Media Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2021.1877768

Heywood, E., Ivey, B., and Meuter, S. (2020) ‘Evaluating Academic and Media NGO Partnerships for Participatory Data Gathering’, International Journal of Market Research. 63(1), pp. 43–57. 

Hartley, D. and Ivey, B. (2018) ‘Introduction. Rupture, Repression, Repetition: The Algerian War of Independence in the Present’, International Journal of Francophone Studies, 21 (3-4), pp.185-207.

Ivey, B. (2018) ‘Gender, Affect, and Postmemory in Nina Bouraoui’s Representations of the Late 1970s’, International Journal of Francophone Studies, 21 (3-4), pp.325-345.

Ivey, B. (2018) ‘Hélène Cixous’s L’Indiade ou l’Inde de leurs rêves: Gendering Memories of Colonialism in India and Algeria’, in Margaret Atack, Alison Fell, Diana Holmes, and Imogen Long, Eds. French Feminisms 1975 and After: New Readings, New Texts, Oxford: Peter Lang, pp.93-116.

Forthcoming publications

Ivey, B. (2021) ‘French Colonial Nostalgia and Urban Topography in Pied-Noir Websites’, Humanities & Social Sciences Communications. [Forthcoming]

Heywood, E. and Ivey, B. (2021) ‘The Significance of ‘Loud’ and ‘Quiet’ Forms of Audience Participation to Community Radio in Niger and Mali’ Journal of Alternative and Community Media. 6(1). [Forthcoming]