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French Studies in and for the 21st Century

Autor Philippe Lane, Michael Worton
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 iul 2011
With contributions from leading scholars across the entire range of French studies, this up-to-date volume examines both the current state of French studies in the United Kingdom, as well as its future in an increasingly interdisciplinary world where student demand, new technologies, and developments in transnational education are changing the ways in which we teach, learn, research and assess achievements.
 
Required reading for French studies scholars worldwide, this volume builds upon the findings of the influential Review of Modern Foreign Languages Provision in Higher Education and maps the present and future of the field.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781846316562
ISBN-10: 1846316561
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: black & white tables
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Liverpool University Press

Notă biografică

Philippe Lane is a visiting fellow at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and attaché for higher education at the French Embassy in the UK. Michael Worton is vice provost and the Fielden Professor of French Language and Literature at University College London.

Cuprins

Notes on Contributors
Foreword by Baroness Jean Coussins, Chair of the All-party Parliamentary Group on Modern Languages
Foreword by His Excellency Bernard Emié, 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 Linguistics in French Studies Today
12. French Linguistic 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 Cinema
      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 Kelly
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

Appendices. Addresses to the Future of French Studies Conference
Appendix 1. Opening Speech. A Vast and Dynamic Field of Research and Teaching
      Maurice Gourdault-Montagne
Appendix 2. A View from France
      Jean-Paul Rebaud
Index