Education
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Secondary Education: Annadale Grammar School, Belfast
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B.A. (Hons)?in Comparative Studies (European), Essex University, 1975
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Ph.D?in English, Manchester University, 1979
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P.G.C.E.?in?T.E.S.O.L., Institute of Education, London University, 1986
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Ma?trise d’anglais,?Bordeaux?University, 1989
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Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches,??Paris University, 2006
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Membership of Societies?:
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D.H.Lawrence Societies of England, France and Italy
The European Society for the Study of English
Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieure
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Academic events
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Sept. 2008 – present
Professor of English at Artois University, Chair in Intercultural Management. Tenured position.
Director of Masters in Intercultural Negotiation.
Taught classes in 19th?century literature; translation studies; business studies (marketing). ESP
Catholic University of Lille: transkation; grammar; Decadence in the 19th?century
During this period I have organized one or two international conferences annually both in Paris and in Arras, as well as editing the European Journal?Etudes Lawrenciennes?(Paris).
Visiting lecturer at Sun yat Sen University, Zhuhai, China
Organiser of Summer School in Arras for students from Sun yat Sen University China. Introduction to French language and Culture.
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In May 2012 I was appointed Vice Rector of the University in Charge of International Relations and have just been renewed in this post for another four years..
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Summers 2002 – 2011 (pre-sessional courses only)
Tutor in English Language:
Leeds University Language Centre (2002-2007 pre-sessional courses – mainly for Asian and Arab students on Masters courses); IELTS testing; Communication and Media Studies; Pre-MBA; Academic Writing
Kent University (2008-2010) Communication Studies. Academic writing; Seminar skills; Presentation skills. Pre-MBA. IELTS testing.
Manchester University (2011) Academic Writing
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Sept.2002 – 2008
Senior Lecturer in English (Ma?tre de Conférences) at the University of Paris (Nanterre)
Tenured position. Responsible for post-graduate ESP modules (Business Studies; Ethnolology; Art History; Sociology). Adult Education. ?Business Correspondence Courses.
19th?century British fiction; Contemporary Irish Literature; Writing;. Introduction to poetry and the short story.
Conference organiser (D.H.Lawrence; In Medias Res).
Co-Editor of the European D.H.Lawrence Journal (10 years)
Visiting lecturer at Leeds University, England
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Sept.?1990 – August 2002
Senior Lecturer in English (Ma?tre de Conférences d'anglais) at Bordeaux University (Economics).
Courses taught?: mainly language courses – grammar, translation, ESP (business; architecture; law; computing), but also the History of British Institutions and Culture; the History of Ideas?; Adult Education – university staff?; preparation?Ecole Nationale d’Administration
Head of Logistics Management Department (three years 1997-2000)
Director of Studies of the Logistics Management Department (four years 1993-97)
Head of Languages
Head of International Relations – responsible for the setting up of Erasmus links
?(Ulster/ Spain/ Holland/ Germany/ Greece). I set up the twinning relation with the University of Ulster
at Coleraine which is still functioning.
Organiser of summer schools in Bordeaux for students from the University of Ulster
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LITERATURE
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1. Ph.D awarded in 1979. Subject of thesis: 'The Significance of Colour in the Works of D.H.Lawrence'.
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2. Paper presented at Boston University (USA), ‘The Colour Experience in the Paintings of D.H.Lawrence', for the 2nd?International D.H.Lawrence Conference, June 1985.
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3. Paper presented at the University of Paris (France), 'The sight-touch metaphor in?Lady Chatterley's Lover', May, 1988. Published in the review?Etudes Lawrenciennes, Paris, November 1988
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4. Paper presented at the University of Bordeaux (France), 'A menagerie of apish~degraded souls - a look at Lawrence's collection of strange creatures in?Women in Love.’ March,1989. Published in the?Journal of the Research Group in British Studies,?Bordeaux, 1989
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5. Article entitled; 'White Gerald; the meaning of whiteness in?Women in Love'. Published in the?Journal of the D.H.Lawrence Society,?Nottingham, England, September, 1990.
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6. Paper presented at the University of Montpellier (France) for the 3rd??international conference on D.H.Lawrence?: ‘Is?Women in Love?well-written'? June, 1990
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7. Ma?trise d'anglais. Course work based on French-English translation. Dissertation on 'H.Melville and D.H.Lawrence - a study in affinity'. (Ist class). June, 1990
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8. Paper presented at the University of Aix en Provence (France)?: 'The Death of our Phallic Being - Melville's?Moby Dick?as a warning which points to?Women in Love.' Published in?Etudes Lawrenciennes,?Paris, March, 1992.
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9. Review of Gary Adelman's?Snow of Fire; Symbolic Meaning in 'The Rainbow' and 'Women in Love'.?Published in the?Journal of the D.H.Lawrence Society, Nottingham, England, 1992
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10. Paper presented at the University of Paris for the 4th International D.H.Lawrence conference?: 'The colour implications of the Poetry of T.S.Eliot and D.H.Lawrence.' July, 1993. Published in?Etudes Lawrenciennes,?Paris, 1994.
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l1. ?Review of David Holbrooke's?Where D.H.Lawrence was Wrong about Woman.?Published in?The D.H.Lawrence Review, Delaware (USA), spring, 1994.
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12. Paper presented at the University of Ottawa (Canada) for the 5th International D.H.Lawrence conference:
‘Stylistic affinities between Melville and Lawrence', June, 1993.
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13. Paper presented at the University of Bordeaux for the 2nd conference of The European Society for the Study of English: 'Art in the Novel - a Novelist's Art' (Melville, Wilde, Lawrence, Fowles), July, 1993. Published on floppy disk.
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14. Paper presented at the University of Valenciennes (France)?: 'Was Melville Plagiarised?'. June, 1994
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15. Paper presented at the University of Clermont-Ferrand (France)?: 'Maimed by History and Creed infected -poetry of the Northern Ireland Troubles', May, 1995. Published in?Etudes Irlandaises, Paris, 1995
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16. Paper presented at the University of Paris for the 6th International D.H.Lawrence Conference; 'The Blind Man's Third Eye', July, 1995. Published in?Etudes Lawrenciennes, 1996
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17. Paper presented at the University of Nottingham (GB) for the 7th International D.H.Lawrence Conference?:'From Constraint to Diffusion: Images of the self in?Women in Love', July 1996. Published in?Etudes Lawrenciennes, 1997
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18. Paper presented at the University of Nice (France) in June, 1997?: 'Lawrence and the Dynamics of Colour' (Lawrence's paintings). Published in?Etudes Lawrenciennes, 1998
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19. Paper presented at the Instituto Suor Benincasa , Napoli (Italy) - on special invitation - 'Bavarian Gentians
- an Italian Poem?', June, 1998. Published in a volume entitled?Lawrence: Arte e Mito, by the same Institute.
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20. Author of ?the ?introduction to the collection of essays on?Studies in Classic American Literature, published in a special edition of?Etudes Lawrenciennes, May 1998.
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21. Paper presented in Ravello (Italy) - special invitation - on 'Lawrence's Quarrel with Italian Socialism', May 1999. ?Published by the D.H.Lawrence Society of Italy, March, 2000.
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22. Paper presented at the University of Paris; 'The Paternity of the Healing Cock - Melville's?Cock-a-doodle-do!?and Lawrence's?The Escaped Cock',?June, 1999. Published in?Etudes Lawrenciennes, 2000
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23. Article entitled 'Oscar Wilde and the Triumph of the Word' in published in?Textus,?a joint publication of the University of Genoa (Italy) and the University of Kent, (ed.) Stephen Bann, July, 1999.
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24. Review of ?Takeo Idao’s?The Reception of D.H.Lawrence Around the World,?summer 1999. Published in the?Journal of the D.H.Lawrence Society, Nottingham, England, Autumn 1999.
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25.Paper presented at the University of Paris?: ‘Burned beyond Essentiality?: Destructive Fire in?The Trespasser’?March, 2000. Published in?Etudes Lawrenciennes, 2001
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26.Paper presented at the annual S.A.E.S. conference, Angers, France?: ‘Nationalism, Regionalism and Parallelism in the Poetry of John Hewitt’. Published in?Etudes Irlandaises, Paris, 2001.
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27.Paper presented at the University of Paris?: ‘The Blood Metaphor in?The Plumed Serpent’, March 2001. Published in?Etudes Lawrenciennes, February 2002.
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28.Paper presented at the University of Montpellier?: ‘Surgery for the Novel – or a Bomb?: The Fiction of Robert McLiam Wilson’, May 2001. Published in ?La Contradiction, Montpellier, 2003
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29.Paper presented for the 9th?International D.H.Lawrence Conference at the University of Naples, June 2001 entitled ‘Lawrence and the Taming of the Dark’. Published in the?Journal of the D.H.Lawrence Society, Nottingham, January 2002.
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30.Article entitled ‘Ultimate Revelations?: Apocalyptic Vision and Symbolic Sequence in?Women in Love’?, published in a special volume on?Women in Love?edited by?Les Editions du Temps, Paris, September 2001.
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31.Article entitled ‘The back of appearance: Chromatic Definition and Allotropic States in?Women in Love’, published in?Etudes Anglaises, Paris, October, 2001.
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32.Article entitled ‘The Colours of Sexual Regeneration in?Lady Chatterley’s Lover’, published by the D.H.Lawrence Society of Italy, November 2001.
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33.Article entitled ‘The Matrix of?Women in Love’, published by?Etudes Lawrenciennes, January 2002.
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34.Article entitled ‘Lawrence, Swift, Scatological Concerns and Linguistic Propriety’, published in a special edition of selected papers from the 2002 S.A.E.S (Fall 2003). congress in Metz, France.
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35.Article entitled ‘The Quest for a Nucleate Trope in Lawrence’s Poetry: Organic Becoming and Inorganic Collapse’, Published in?Etudes Lawrenciennes, Spring 2004
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36. Article entitled ‘Blood-Being and Blood-Blossoming ?in?The Plumed Serpent’, published in?Etudes
??????Lawrenciennes, no. 31, 2005
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37. Article entitled ‘From the Infinitesimally Small to the Infinitely Great Great?: the Symbolism of Lawrence’s
??????Cosmic Vision’, published in?Etudes Lawrenciennes, no. 33, 2006
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38. Article entitled ‘The Rod and the Serpent?: Lawrence’s Quarrel with Biblical Symbolism’, published in
?????Etudes?Lawrenciennes, no. 34, 2006
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39. Article entitled ‘Flash, Sparkle, Flicker?: the Dynamics of the Lawrentian Creative Act’. Published
??????in?Etudes ?Lawrenciennes, vol. 35, 2007
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40. Article entitled ‘How do you sew the night???Longing ans Belonging as Poetic Travails in Troubled Times:
??????the Poetics of Michael Longley’. ?Published by Cambridge Scholars Library, 2008
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41. Article entitled ’How to be black and blue – or, Shedding Darkness on the Construction of “Bavarian Gentians”’. Published in?Etudes Lawrenciennes, vol. 38, 2008
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42. Article entitled ‘Outlining a (convenient) Theory of Life: Lawrence’s Designs on Etruria’, published in a putative collection on Lawrence’s relationship with Florence.?D.H.Lawrence, Firenze e la sfida di Lady Chatterley, Regione Toscana, 2009
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43. Article entitled ‘The Stanton Engravings and “The Ship of Death”’, ?published in?Quaderni Lawrenciani, Italy, 2010
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44. Conference presented at ISCAP, Porto, entitled ‘The Road to Xanadu or the Need to Storm the Walls of Intercultural Difference’, Nov. 2015
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PEDAGOGY
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45. In February 1992, the Bordeaux School of Architecture published?Irish Architects on Architecture, which
??????included a book and cassette of which I was the author and which is used in the teaching of English to
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46. Article entitled ‘Pédagogie Internationale et Pluridisciplinaire?: le cas N.E.P.T.U.N.E.’ ?published in the
??????journal?Rencontres?(France), summer, 2000.
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47. Article entitled ‘Teaching Lawrence?: The Pitfalls of Pedagogy and the Foreigness of Language’, published
??????in?Etudes Lawrenciennes, September 2001.
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48. Joint author of a CD rom for the teaching of English in international transport. I produced the maritime
?????transport section. Published by the?Association Fran?aise du Transport, Paris, January 2003