Dr Fransiska Louwagie

Dr Fransiska Louwagie
Dr Fransiska Louwagie
Dr Fransiska Louwagie

Senior Lecturer

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Office Address
A44 Taylor Building
Old Aberdeen Campus
High Street
AB24 3UB

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School/Department
School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture

Biography

Originally from Belgium, I completed a PhD on French post-Holocaust literature at the University of Leuven and held post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Leuven and Lessius University College. I joined the University of Aberdeen as Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies in August 2022. I previously held a post as Associate Professor of French at the University of Leicester. As part of a research project on self-translation I also undertook a three-month research stay at Harvard University in 2010 supported by a Fulbright Visiting Fellowship.

My research combines literary studies with a range of interdisciplinary perspectives. I have in particular worked on survivor narratives and the representation of the Holocaust in contemporary Francophone fiction and bande dessinée. My research also focuses on issues of migration, bilingualism and translation. As part of my work, I have undertaken various research collaborations in the field of drama and the visual arts, particularly graphic novels, post-Holocaust art and political cartooning.

I am the author of Témoignage et littérature d’après Auschwitz (2020) and have co-edited several volumes and thematic issues, including:  Un ciel de sang et de cendres. Piotr Rawicz et la solitude du témoin (2013); Ego-histories of France and the Second World War: Writing Vichy (2018, co-edited with Manuel Bragança); Tradition and Innovation in Franco-Belgian bande dessinée (2021); Migration, Memory and the Visual Arts: Second-Generation (Jewish) Artists (forthcoming 2023).

I am the PI of ‘Covid in Cartoons’ (AHRC, 2021-2022 350k), an interdisciplinary research project conduced with Dr Di Levine (University of Leicester), Shout Out UK and Cartooning for Peace. I’m also currently leading a BA/Leverhulme research project with Manu Braganca on The Future of WWII France in Academia.

 

External Memberships

I am currently Vice-Chair External Engagement and Communications for the University Council of Modern Languages. I'm a member of the Editorial Board of Modern and Contemporary France and of the AHRC Peer Review College. I have been part of the Executive Committee of the AUPHF+ as membership secretary from 2018 until 2021.

Prizes and Awards

  • 'The Future of WWII France in Academia: Contemporary Research Paradigms, Trajectories and Challenges' (BA/Leverhulme Small Grant, £4,772.90), PI, with Dr Manu Bragança, 2022-2014 - with further funding from MHRA, UCML, IMLR, SFS, SSFH. 
  • 'Covid in Cartoons' (AHRC-funded (£352054 at 100% FEC and £296928 at 80% FEC), PI, in partnership with Dr Di Levine (LIAS) Cartooning for Peace and Shout Out UK, 2021-2022. 
  • ‘Political Cartooning and Global Challenges: Maximising impact across settings and stakeholders’, 'ESRC IAA funding, £9,996.8), with Sarah Weidman and Kara Blackmore, University of Leicester ESRC Impact Acceleration Account, Large Rapid Response scheme, 2021-2022.
  • Design Methodology Hub, (Research England Fund for Participatory Research, £10,000), with Dr Di Levine and the University of Nairobi, 2022.
  • 'Political Cartooning and Peace-Building in Conflict and Post-Conflict Contexts (GCRF IRDF ODA Block Grant (£9676), PI, with Dr Di Levine, 2021-22. With further College Research Development Fund support (data analysis ‘Social cohesion with a pencil stroke’ – political cartooning in Ivory Coast), 2021-2022 (£3,270.80)'
  • Across the Seasons: Memory Matters Today' (Toni Schiff Memorial Fund, £9,132.90), PI, with Caroline Sharples (UCLan) and CCM Theatre, 2015-2016.
  • 'France, Vichy and me', (BA/Leverhulme Small Grant, (£6,266.30), Co-I, with Manu Braganca (Queen's University Belfast), 2014-2016. With further grants and support (£6,265) from the SSFH, the SFS, the ASMCF, the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the School of Modern Languages at the University of Leicester, the Centre for Collaborative Research in the Humanities at Queen’s University Belfast, the QUB Research Initiative Fund. 
Research

Supervision

Supervision expertise covers contemporary literature, Holocaust literature, genocide representations, bande dessinée, translation studies, visual cultures.

Past PhD supervision (supervised to completion)

Ana Rodrigues dos Santos: Critical Functions of Contemporary Visual and Digital Poetry (University of Leicester, 1st supervisor)

Margrethe Stuttaford: The British and German translations of Pippi Longstocking: A translational stylistics analysis (University of Leicester, 1st supervisor)

Anna Scanlon; The Image of Anne Frank in Modern Theatre (University of Leicester, 2nd supervisor)

Mashael Al-Mutairi Quality: Assessment of the Translation of the Arab Spring Presidential Speeches (University of Leicester, 2nd supervisor)

Chokri Ghezal: Negotiating Translation Options with Potential Readers: Applying Skopos Theory to Culturally-bound texts (University of Leicester, 2nd supervisor)

 

Funding and Grants

  • 'The Future of WWII France in Academia: Contemporary Research Paradigms, Trajectories and Challenges' (BA/Leverhulme Small Grant, £4,772.90), PI, with Dr Manu Bragança, 2022-2014 - with further funding from MHRA, UCML, IMLR, SFS, SSFH. 
  • 'Covid in Cartoons' (AHRC-funded (£352054 at 100% FEC and £296928 at 80% FEC), PI, in partnership with Dr Di Levine (LIAS) Cartooning for Peace and Shout Out UK, 2021-2022. 
  • ‘Political Cartooning and Global Challenges: Maximising impact across settings and stakeholders’, 'ESRC IAA funding, £9,996.8), with Sarah Weidman and Kara Blackmore, University of Leicester ESRC Impact Acceleration Account, Large Rapid Response scheme, 2021-2022.
  • Design Methodology Hub, (Research England Fund for Participatory Research, £10,000), with Dr Di Levine and the University of Nairobi, 2022.
  • 'Political Cartooning and Peace-Building in Conflict and Post-Conflict Contexts (GCRF IRDF ODA Block Grant (£9676), PI, with Dr Di Levine, 2021-22. With further College Research Development Fund support (data analysis ‘Social cohesion with a pencil stroke’ – political cartooning in Ivory Coast), 2021-2022 (£3,270.80)'
  • Across the Seasons: Memory Matters Today' (Toni Schiff Memorial Fund, £9,132.90), PI, with Caroline Sharples (UCLan) and CCM Theatre, 2015-2016.
  • 'France, Vichy and me', (BA/Leverhulme Small Grant, (£6,266.30), Co-I, with Manu Braganca (Queen's University Belfast), 2014-2016. With further grants and support (£6,265) from the SSFH, the SFS, the ASMCF, the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the School of Modern Languages at the University of Leicester, the Centre for Collaborative Research in the Humanities at Queen’s University Belfast, the QUB Research Initiative Fund. 
Publications

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  • Traces de mémoire. Pédagogie et transmission

    Louwagie, F., Van Samang, F. (ed.)
    Brussels: Auschwitz Foundation Brussels.
    Other Contributions: Other Contributions
  • Imaginaire de l’espace, espace imaginaire

    Louwagie, F.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
  • La bande dessinée dans l'orbe des guerres et des génocides du vingtième siècle

    Louwagie, F. (ed.), Weyssow, D. (ed.)
    Kimé, Paris. 296 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
  • La bande dessinée dans l'orbe des guerres et des génocides du vingtième siècle: Présentation

    Louwagie, F., Weyssow, D.
    Témoigner, entre histoire et mémoire, no. 109, pp. 19-28
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Michael Rothberg (interview réalisé par Fransiska Louwagie et Pieter Vermeulen):: L'Holocauste et l'imagination comparative

    Louwagie, F., Vermeulen, P., Rothberg, M.
    Témoigner, entre histoire et mémoire, vol. 106, pp. 151-167
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Régine Robin en "L'écriture flaneuse": identiteit en taal tussen modernisme en postmodernisme

    Louwagie, F.
    De erfenis van het modernisme. Baetens, J., Houppermans, S., Langeveld, A., Liebregts, P. (eds.). Rozenberg, pp. 165-183, 19 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • The ethical stance of testimony: memory politics and representational choices

    Louwagie, F.
    Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 1-17
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Cultural Theory and Holocaust Remembrance in Romain Gary's Pour Sganarelle and La danse de Gengis Cohn

    Louwagie, F.
    Works and Days, no. 51, pp. 97-106
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • L'écriture «extime» de Gérard Wajcman: Blancs, notes et intertextes dans L'interdit

    Louwagie, F.
    Etudes Francaises, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 131-150
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Lieux de non retour

    Louwagie, F., Walter, J.
    Qualifier des lieux de détention et de massacre (2): Territorialisation et déterritorialisation. Fleury, B., Walter, J. (eds.), pp. 299-311, 13 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Philippe Mesnard, Témoignage en résistance, Stock, 2007

    Louwagie, F., Walter, J. (ed.), Fleury, B. (ed.)
    Questions de communication, no. 16, pp. 326-328
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Pour ainsi dire une pieuvre: Book review: Central Europe, William T. Vollmann, Arles 2007

    Louwagie, F.
    Témoigner, entre histoire et mémoire, no. 103, pp. 230-233
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • L'imaginaire de Jorge Semprun:: Narcisse entre miroir et fleur

    Louwagie, F.
    Orbis Litterarum, vol. 63, no. 2, pp. 152-171
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • "Métastases" d'Auschwitz: modalités et limites d'une tradition testimoniale

    Louwagie, F.
    Témoignages de l'après-Auschwitz dans la littérature juive-française: enfants de survivants et survivants-enfants. Rodopi, pp. 172-185, 14 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Broder une histoire - Note de lecture: Le rapport de Brodeck, Philippe Claudel, Paris, Stock, 2007

    Louwagie, F.
    Témoigner, entre histoire et mémoire, no. 100, pp. 207-213
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Des cris par-delà le silence: témoignage et littérature: Book review: Qui si je criais...? Oeuvres-témoignages dans les tourmentes du XXe siècle, Claude Mouchard, 2007

    Louwagie, F.
    Acta Fabula http://www.fabula.org/revue/document4390.php, vol. 9, no. 7
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • From the depths. Dutch egodocuments from the Nazi concentration camps

    Louwagie, F.
    Spiegel der Letteren, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 393-396
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Œdipe à jéricho. L'œuvre testimoniale d'Henri Raczymow

    Louwagie, F.
    Neophilologus, vol. 92, no. 2, pp. 217-233
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • "Et puis tu nous entraînes plus loin": le témoignage des camps vu à travers le regard des préfaciers: Témoignage sous influence

    Louwagie, F.
    Contributions to Conferences: Papers
  • Between the general and the particular: Reminiscences of Plato's 'Timaeus' in Piotr Rawicz's 'Le sang du ciel'

    Louwagie, F.
    Romance Quarterly, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 326-339
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Le témoignage francophone sur les camps de concentration nazis (1945-2004): une étude générique et discursive

    Louwagie, F.
    Romaneske, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 13-16
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Comment dire l’expérience des camps: fonctions transmissives et réparatrices du récit testimonial

    Louwagie, F.
    ETUD LITTERAIRES, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 57-68
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Die Suche nach Einheit und Identität in Zeugnissen der Shoah: Elie Wiesels La Nuit une André Schwarz-Barts Le Dernier des Justes: Kongress des Franko-Romanisten-Verbandes "Demokratie, Literatur, Sprache"

    Louwagie, F., Segler-Messner, S., Neuhofer, M., Kuon, P.
    Contributions to Conferences: Papers
  • La force du plus faible: L'ethos testimonial dans Le Sang du ciel de Piotr Rawicz

    Louwagie, F.
    Lettres Romanes, vol. 60, no. 3-4, pp. 297-310
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Le témoignage des camps et sa médiation préfacielle

    Louwagie, F., Walter, J. (ed.), Fleury, B. (ed.)
    Questions de communication, no. 10, pp. 349-367
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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