Mr. Nicolas Fève

Contact Details

Office: G3, Department of French, St Patrick's College, Dublin 9, Ireland.

Email: Nicolas.Feve@spd.dcu.ie

Phone: +353 1 884 2208

• Degree in French, Université de Lyon 2, France (Licence de Lettres modernes), Degree in French as a Foreign Language, Université de Lyon 2, France (Licence Mention de Français Langue Etrangère), Degree in Scandinavian Languages, Literature and Culture, Université de Caen, France (Licence de Langues, lettres et civilisation nordiques)
• MA in French, University College Dublin, Ireland
• Assistant Lecturer in Department of French, St. Patrick’s College, 2007-2008
• Part-time lecturer at St. Patrick’s College, Dublin City University, 1998-2002 and 2004-2007
• Senior Tutor at University College Dublin, 2004-2005
• Full-time lecturer in French at Queen’s University, Belfast, 2004
• Tutor of French at National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 1999-2001

Teaching Areas

• 17th-century Literature and Ideas
• 18th-century Literature and Ideas
• 20th-century French Theatre
• Theatre of the Avant-garde (Jarry & Beckett)
• 20th-century & Contemporary French Poetry
• Contemporary French Autobiography

Research Interests

• Contemporary French Literature & Culture
• Contemporary narratives
• Theories of text and image
• Autobiography
• Photography

Recent Publications

•  ‘Rhétorique de la photographie dans l'autobiographie contemporaine : Des Histoires vraies de Sophie Calle’, in Reading Images and Seeing Words, A. English and R. Silvester eds. (Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2004).

Recent projects

Photographic exhibitions:

• Contemporary Visions. Group exhibition, William Frank Gallery (17 May - 3 June 2005)
• Omey, Clifden Arts Week, 14-24 September 2006; Tulca Season for Visual Arts, Galway City Museum (11 November – 17 December 2006); Alliance Française, Dublin (23 February – 21 March 2007); Franco-Irish Literary Festival, Dublin Castle (27-29 April 2007)

Current book projects:

• Quotations: an analysis of the photograph as a mise-en-page
• Omey Island: printing the landscape

 

Last Updated: Friday April 25 2008