Current postgraduates


	Current postgraduates

Students at present working in the Department of French include the following:

Marta Adorjan -Aspects of Irish English
Supervisor - Maeve Conrick. (Accepted 2006 - deferred until 2007)

Catherine Burke - The Reception of Homer in Twentieth Century French Literature. Supervisor - Fiona Cox. IRCHSS 2006

Conor Collins - Languages and co-habitation in Belgium and Canada.
Supervisor - Grace Neville

Grainne Foley - Baudrillard and Threat in the Modern World.
Supervisor - Paul Hegarty. President's Scholarship - 2005

Kathleen Hamel - Ovid's Metamorphoses in Twentieth Century French Literature and Art
Supervisor - Fiona Cox. President's Scholarship - 2006

Siobhan Hopcraft - The Novels of Michel Déon.
Supervisor - Grace Neville

Céline Lelong - Le langage de la violence politique en Irlande du Nord
Supervisor - Grace Neville (co-supervisor, Jean Brihault, Emeritus President, Université de Rennes)

Catherine Macgillycuddy - Syntax and Communication in a Corpus of Political Articles taken from Le Monde and Libération.
Supervisor - Matthew Macnamara. IRCHSS 2003

Ornaith Ni Dhuibhir (UL) - 'Language Gender and Maternity: the Discoursal Construction of Gendered Identities'
Supervisor - Maeve Conrick (Co-Supervisor, Professor Angela Chambers, University of Limerick)

Angela O'Flaherty - French women's literary responses to experience of war in the last century, with particular emphasis on the Second World War.
Supervisor - Mary Noonan. IRCHSS 2005

Roxane Paire
Supervisor - Mary Noonan.

Dorota Rzycka - Dans le prisme de la belgitude: analyse des espaces belges dans les poèmes d'Emile Verhaeren et de Jacques Brel.
Supervisors - Fiona Cox and Patrick Crowley

Nicole Sigl - 'Identity and Contemporary Society in Recent Québécois and Mexican Cinema.' - ICCS Graduate Student Scholarship 2006 (Highly prestigious travel grant.)
Supervisor - Maeve Conrick (co-supervisor Nuala Finnegan, Department of Hispanic Studies)

Niamh Sweeney - 'The Decline of Paris as Capital of Modernism'
Supervisor - Paul Hegarty - IRCHSS 2002

Dariusz Wawak - Concretisation of the Tragic Heroine and Reception of the beautiful. Content, Context and Code in a Semiotic Approach to the Notion of 'Static' and 'Kinetic' Aesthetic Emotion in Comparative Drama.
Supervisor - Angela Ryan. President's Scholarship 2006

Postgraduate Achievements and Awards

Catherine Burke - Supervisor Fiona Cox
IRCHSS scholarhip - 2006
Forthcoming publication 'Bowen's London as a du Bellian Rome' in Reinventing Ireland through a French Prism, ed. Eamon Maher and Grace Neville (Hamburg: Peter Lang, 2007)
Commendation - Postgraduate Gapper Prize Awards 2006 'Butor's Bleston: A Modern Day Acheron.'
'Battle of the Sexes: A study of the reaction of female writers to the patriarchal epic in Monique Wittig's Virgile, Non and Margaret Atwood's, The Penelopiad' Paper delivered at the British Comparative Literature Association Graduate Conference, London, March 2007.

Conor Collins - Supervisor Grace Neville
'Two Solitudes in Belgium and Ireland' Paper presented at the France/ Ireland conference, UCC, March 2006.

Grainne Foley - Supervisor Paul Hegarty
President's Scholarship, 2005

Kathleen Hamel - Supervisor Fiona Cox
President's Scholarhip, 2006

Catherine Macgillycuddy - Supervisor Matthew Macnamara
IRCHSS Scholarship - 2003

Angela O'Flaherty - Supervisor Mary Noonan
IRCHSS Scholarship - 2005
'La Résistance féminine': an analysis of the representation of women in selected wartime texts by Edith Thomas and Elsa Triolet'. Paper presented at 'Women in French conference: French and Francophone women and war.', May 2006. Paper selected for publication.
'Charlotte Delbo et sa quête de la vérité dans la trilogie, Auschwitz et Après'. Paper given at the Association des Etudes françaises et francophones d'Irlande conference. Paris, September, 2006.

Nicole Sigl - Supervisor Maeve Conrick
ICCS Scholarship - 2006
'D'après vous, ça prend combien de gaz pour s'immoler?' - Search for identity in Denis Villeneuve's Maelström.' Paper presented at the Association of Canadian Studies in Ireland Conference, 'Canada at Home and Abroad: text and territory' April 2006.
'El cuál le gusta más, la Virgen o Diosito? - Regligion vs Modernity in Carlos Reygadas' Japon.' Paper presented at the Irish Latin Americanist's conference at University of Ulster, June 2006
'On the Road to Redemption - Liminality and Identity in Carlos Reygadas' Battle in Heaven' Paper presented at the 'Memories of Modernity' Conference, University of Stony Brook, New York, November 2006.
Conference Organizer - 'A Mexican New Wave? Reflections on Contemporary Mexican Cinema', UCC, March 2007.
'Je me souviens (mais je ne veux pas) - Search for Identity in Denis Villeneuve's Maelström and André Turpin's Un crabe dans la tête' Paper presented at Québec Cinema Conference, University of Glasgow, March 2007.
Conference Organizer: 'Image, Identity and Culture in Narrative and Documentary Cinema - A postgraduate Film Studies Symposium at UCC, March 2007.

Niamh Sweeney - Supervisor Paul Hegarty:
IRCHSS scholarship 2002
Forthcoming publication: 'Strategies of Potential: The Idea of Gaming in Baudelaire's Aesthetic of Modern Life' in Money and Culture, eds. Fiona Cox and Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa, (Munich: Peter Lang, 2007)

Last revised: 26/4/07
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