French Studies
Teaching and research staff within French Studies.
Academic staff
Dr Jeff Barda
Senior Lecturer in French Cultural Studies
Specialisms: Twentieth and twenty-first-century French literature in particular Modernism, the avant-gardes and contemporary poetry; literature beyond the book; literature and the new media; (un)creative writing; cognitive approaches to literature
Dr Jérôme Brillaud
Senior Lecturer in Early Modern French Studies
Specialisms: 18th-century French philosophy; simple living in history; sustainable living; animal studies; garden history.
Prof Julia Dobson
Professor of French Film and Performance
Head of Modern Languages and Cultures
Specialisms: contemporary film and performance; puppetry and performing objects; robots on stage; rethinking 'auteur' theory; documentary film; Perec and film; Hélène Cixous; critical theory.
Ms Gaelle Flower
Senior Language Tutor
Specialisms: teaching French for specific purposes (business, medical and tourism); learning technologies for language teaching; employability in the curriculum.
Dr Catherine Franc
Senior Language Tutor
Specialisms: Language teaching for specialists and non-specialists ; examiner with the Chamber of Commerce Paris Ile de France; interpreting and translation; Enquiry-Based Learning; songs for language learning; employability in the language curriculum; Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.
Dr Kate Goodson-Walker
Teaching Assistant in French
Specialisms: 18th-century French history and culture; dance and performance.
Dr Jonathan Hensher
Language Tutor and Lecturer in French
Specialisms: French book illustration from the 18th – 20th century; book history and European print culture; literary translation.
Dr Vladimir Kapor
Senior Lecturer in French Studies
Specialisms: 19th-century French literature (particularly exoticism and orientalism); Bernardin de Saint-Pierre; colonial culture of the Third French Republic.
Ms Nathalie Lacroute
Language Tutor
Specialisms: Anglophone Studies; certified examiner with the Centre International d’Etudes Pédagogiques and the Paris Chamber of Commerce; technology-enhanced learning.
Dr Barbara Lebrun
Senior Lecturer in French Cultural Studies
Specialisms: Contemporary French culture; popular culture; popular music; performance.
Dr Joseph McGonagle
Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies in the French-speaking World
Specialisms: French and Francophone cinema; documentary film; filmmaking; the video essay; visual culture.
Ms Annie Morton
Senior Language Tutor
Specialisms: eLearning; EBL.
Mr Olivier Perez
Language Tutor
Specialisms: Online teaching.
Ms Anne Simonin
Language Tutor
Specialisms: Teaching French at ab-initio level, German.
Dr Michael Spanu
Marie Curie postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Manchester
Professional support staff
Languages administration team - salc-languages@manchester.ac.uk
Honorary and Emeritus staff within French Studies
Prof David Adams
Emeritus Professor of French
Prof Henry Phillips
Emeritus Professor of French
Prof Dee Reynolds
Emerita Professor of French
Prof Ursula Tidd
Emerita Professor of French