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Dr Greg Kerr

Lecturer in French Studies

Degree: BA (Dublin), M.Phil (Cantab), Ph.D (Dublin)

Current Teaching

FREN 100/101 French Cultural Studies Part I (Course convenor)

FREN 233 Shaping Contemporary France: Culture, Politics and the Legacy of History (Poetry and the Nineteenth-Century City)

FREN 301 French Written Skills (Course convenor)

DELC 346 Modern French Identities: Race and Nation (Course convenor)

Research Interests

I am interested in nineteenth century French poetry and the history of ideas. My doctoral research explored intersections between utopian thought and modern French poetic discourse and is the subject of a forthcoming monograph: Dream Cities: Utopia and Prose by Poets in Nineteenth-Century France (London: Legenda, forthcoming). While continuing to pursue research in this area, I am also beginning a project which explores the idea of statelessness in twentieth-century French-language poetry.

Research Grants Awarded

2011 Society for French Studies conference grant in support of 'Minorités en vue' (Lancaster University, May 2011)

2010 Yves Hervouet Fund for Anglo-French Relations , conference grant in support of 'Minorités en vue' colloquium (Lancaster University, May 2011)

2009 Co-winner of prize for best postgraduate paper at conference of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes for presentation entitled 'Rimbaud's Illuminations and the 'multiplicateur de progrès'', University of Bristol

2006-2009 Awarded three-year postgraduate scholarship by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS)

2006 Owen Sheehy-Skeffington Memorial Travel Prize, Trinity College, Dublin

2005-2006 Claude Pichois Studentship, Trinity College, Dublin

Potential Doctoral Proposals

Nineteenth-century French poetry

Utopian thought

Literature and urban modernity

Relations between literature and the history of ideas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Director of Postgraduate Studies

I am the Director of Postgraduate Studies within DELC. We welcome applications in any of the areas covered by our staff expertise. Students may pursue a topic based entirely within one or several of the languages corresponding to staff research in the Dept - French, German, Spanish and Catalan - but we are also interested in projects which are comparative or transcultural in scope. It is also possible to receive joint supervision by European Languages and Cultures and another department in the university such as History, Linguistics or Philosophy. Please see:

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/eurolang/pg/phd/index.htm

About

Before taking up my current post at Lancaster, I previously taught at the University of Oxford, Trinity College, Dublin and Sciences Po (Paris).

Scholarly Associations

I am a member of the executive committee of the Society of Dix-neuviémistes in the role of web officer, and I serve as moderator for the email list affiliated to the Society, dix-neuf.

I am also a member of the Association des études françaises et francophones d'Irlande (ADEFFI) and of the Society for French Studies

Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database

Greg Kerr has 5 selected publication records listed on this webpage. Use links to access abstracts and full text where available. View all records to sort by date, type and title. For all ePrints records go to http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk

Associated Keywords: French, Poetry, Utopia, Word and image studies

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