Dr. Dervila Cooke

Contact Details

Office : M58, Department of French, St. Patrick’s College, Dublin 9, Ireland.

E-mail : Dervila.Cooke@spd.dcu.ie

Phone: +353 1 884 2310

Fax: +353 1 8376197

Dervila Cooke joined Saint Patrick’s College in September 2008. She is a graduate of University College Dublin, where she completed a B.A., an M.A. and a PhD. She was an Erasmus student at the Université de Caen during her B.A. and followed her degree with a year as a lectrice at the Université de Rennes II. She also holds a Higher Diploma in Business Studies from University College Dublin. While working for her PhD, she spent a year studying at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Before coming to Saint Patrick’s College, she was Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. Other places she has taught include the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, University College Dublin, and Waterford Regional Technical College (now W.I.T.). She was an IRCHSS postdoctoral research fellow at Trinity College Dublin from 20042006. During that time she also carried out research in Paris.

Teaching Areas
Dr Cooke’s current teaching (2010/2011) includes the following courses:

• Classicisme et expérimentation au théâtre
• Les Français au cinéma
• Autour de Paris: images et textes de la banlieue
• Mémoire et identité
• Texte et cinéma des années noires
• Le français oral
• Langue et expression écrit
  

Research Interests

• Contemporary and 20th century focus
• Autobiography/autofiction, especially in the work of Patrick Modiano
• Aspects of Quebec literature (autobiography, literature of migration, interculturalism in text and film)
• Approaches to the city (especially Paris), and city wandering (flânerie) in various forms of expression (literature, photography, film)
• Thinking photography, e.g. interaction of photography and text/film; photography in film; approaches to street and portrait photography; ethics in photography
  

Recent Publications & Communications

Books

Present Pasts: Patrick Modiano’s (Auto)Biographical Fictions (Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, January 2005) [Single-authored]

Journal Articles

“Hybridity and intercultural exchange in Marco Micone’s Le Figuier enchanté”, French Review, May 2011
“Connection and Peripheral Encounters: Paris bout du monde (1992) and Les Passagers du RoissyExpress (1989)”, Journal of Romance Studies, 8, 1, special issue on Photography and Travel, ed Colette Wilson (Spring 2008), 91-106
“Cléo and Chloé on the Margins of Parisian Flânerie: Questions of Self and Other in Cléo de 5 à 7 and Chacun cherche son chat”, Irish Journal of French Studies, 6 (2006), 67-85
“Modiano in the Feminine”, with Professor Colin Nettelbeck, University of Melbourne, Nottingham French Studies, 45, 2 (2006), 39-53
“Paris Tendresse by Modiano (with Photographs by Brassaï): a Photobiographical Creation”, Australian Journal of French Studies, XLII, 2 (2005), 143-158
“Hollow Imprints: History, Literature and the Biographical in Modiano’s Dora Bruder”, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 3, 2 (2004), 131-145
“‘Créer le silence avec des mots’: Writing Silence in Chien de printemps by Patrick Modiano”, PAGES, 5 (1998), 43-51

Link to full list of publications and communication

Other Academic Activities

External grants (since 2004)

• ICCS Faculty Research Fellowship, April 2010 (Canadian Government) for research on Interculturalism and hybridity in works by Marco Micone and Anita Aloisio.
• ICCS Faculty Enrichment Fellowship, April 2009 (Canadian Government) for the development of a course partly devoted to Marco Micone (Quebec).
• IRCHSS postdoctoral scholarship, 2004-2006

Conference/workshop organization

• Organization of International Conference on “Modiano et l’Image”, Saint Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, September 10-11, 2010
• Co-organization of an international workshop on “Cultural Dynamics in the Modern Metropolis”, with colleague Christina Horvath, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, June 2008
• Co-organization of a symposium on “Photography and Text in Modern French Culture” with speakers, from France, Britain and Ireland, in conjunction with Professor Johnnie Gratton, Alliance Française, Dublin, April 2004

General/Miscellaneous

• Publicity officer for ADEFFI (Association d’études françaises et francophones en Irlande): 2006-2010
• Organization of film seminars and déjeuners français at Saint Patrick’s College
• Peer reviewer for various journals, e.g. Irish Journal of French Studies, Irish University Review, French Studies, and Modern and Contemporary France
• PCTHE (Postgraduate certificate in teaching in higher education), Oxford Brookes University, 2008

 

 

 

Sept 2006 – 2008      International Relay for Publicity in Ireland for the Association of French Language Studies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last Updated: Thursday May 05 2011