Dr Siobhan Shilton
Tel: +44 (0)117 928 9794
Fax: (0117) 3318010
Email: s.shilton@bris.ac.uk
Siobhán Shilton was appointed to the Department in 2005. She specialises in postcolonial studies, with particular reference to the cultures of France, the Maghreb, sub-Saharan Africa and former ‘Indochina’ (she has also worked on Iranian graphic literature in French). She is currently working on photography, video, installation and performance art exploring cross-cultural identities, and is completing a book entitled Transcultural Encounters: Journeys between France and the Maghreb in Contemporary Art, following an AHRC Research Leave Award. She is co-author (with Charles Forsdick and Feroza Basu) of New Approaches to Twentieth-Century Travel Literature in French: history, genre, theory (Peter Lang, 2006), and has published articles on the subjects of travel, exile, colonialism and postcolonialism in literature and the visual arts.
Siobhán teaches twentieth- and twenty-first-century cultural studies, as well as French language. She would especially welcome applications for postgraduate study in the areas outlined above.
Undergraduate Teaching, 2010-11:
FREN30001 Final-Year Language
FREN30090 ‘France/Maghreb: Migrations and Cultures’
FREN30099 ‘Francophone Identities in the Visual Arts: Immigration, Exile, Diaspora’
FREN20038 ‘Race in France: Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives’
FREN10028 ‘The Arts in Contemporary France’
Lectures on ‘Shaping Contemporary France’ (Year 1), ‘France and Europe’ (Year 2), ‘Third Republic’ (Year 2), and ‘Occupation and Resistance’ (Year 2)
Postgraduate Teaching:
MA pathways: ‘Visual Culture: Text and Image’, ‘Constructing Identities’ and ‘War and Culture’ (as part of the ‘MA in Modern Languages’)
Consultation Times:
Thursday 15.00-17.00
Selected Publications:
Articles
‘Belly Dancing to the Marseillaise: Zoulikha Bouabdellah’s Dansons’, in Contemporary French & Francophone Studies: SITES(12.4, October 2008), pp. 437-44. (Soon to be re-published in the artist’s catalogue.)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17409290802447464
‘Contemporary travel to Vietnam: Jean-Luc Coatalem’s Suite indochinoise and Kim Lefèvre’s Retour à la saison des pluies’, invited contribution to a special issue of Studies in Travel Writing (13.4, December 2009), pp. 345-55.
http://www.informaworld.com (DOI: 10.1080/13645140903281838)
‘Travel Literature in French: Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters’, invited contribution to Contemporary French and Francophone Studies (10.1, 2006, for a special issue entitled ‘French Studies Today’), pp. 73-84.
‘“Une littérature qui dise le monde”? Contemporary French Travel Writing and the Challenge of Postcoloniality’, in Contemporary Francophone Identities, eds. Peter Davies, Catriona Cunningham and Cristina Johnson (Glasgow French Research Seminars 3, 2002), pp. 135-49.
‘Journeys between Cultures, Journeys within Cultures: understanding travel and exile in Ousmane Socé and Azouz Begag’, in Travel and Exile: Postcolonial Perspectives, ed. Charles Forsdick (ASCALF Critical Studies in Postcolonial Literature and Culture 1, 2001), pp. 31-47.
Chapters in Books
‘Transcultural Encounters in Contemporary Art: Gender, Genre and History’ (extended chapter): invited contribution to Comparing Postcolonial Diasporas, eds. Michelle Keown, David Murphy and James Procter (Palgrave, Macmillan, 2009), pp. 56-80.
‘Gender, Generation and the Legacy of Immigration: Renegotiating Female Identities in Houari’s Zeida de nulle part and Guène’s Kiffe kiffe demain, in Women’s Writing in Western Europe: Gender, Generation and Legacy, eds. Adalgisa Giorgio and Julia Waters (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007), pp. 401-16.
‘Repossessing Travel: Postcolonial Theory and the Reordering of Space’, in Possessions. Essays in French Literature, Cinema and Theory, eds. Julia Horn and Lynsey Russell-Watts (Peter Lang, 2003), pp. 87-103.
‘Reconstructing Elsewhere: Travel and the Representation of L’Indochine Française’, in Cross-Cultural Travel: Papers from the Royal Irish Academy Modern Languages Symposium on Travel Literature, ed. Jane Conroy (Peter Lang, 2003), pp. 325-33.
‘Assimilation or Association? Representing France and Africa in Ousmane Socé’s Mirages de Paris’, in Voyages: travel in twentieth-century literature and culture, eds. Charles Forsdick, Feroza Basu and Siobhán Shilton (forthcoming, Edwin Mellen)
Encyclopaedia Contribution:
Commissioned entry on ‘Orientalism/Exoticism’ for A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures: Continental Europe and its Empires, eds. Prem Poddar, R. S. Patke and L. Jensen (Edinburgh University Press, 2007), pp.175-76.
Books
Transcultural Encounters: Journeys between France and the Maghreb in Contemporary Art (Manchester University Press, forthcoming 2011)
Voyages: travel in twentieth-century literature and culture (forthcoming, Edwin Mellen) (co-edited with Charles Forsdick)
New Approaches to Twentieth-Century Travel Literature in French: history, genre, theory (Peter Lang, 2006) (co-authored with Charles Forsdick and Feroza Basu)