| Personal details |
| Name |
Dr Martin
Hurcombe |
| Job title |
Senior Lecturer
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| Department |
Department of French University of Bristol
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| Personal web page |
http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/French/MHurcombe.html |
| Work contact details |
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| Qualifications |
BA (Hons), PhD(Bristol), PGCE |
| Professional details |
| Membership of professional bodies |
Executive member of the Group for War and Culture Studies (based at the Universities of Westminster and Bristol).
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| Keywords |
French cultural representations of war
World War One
Spanish Civil War
totalitarianism
political commitment
memory
interwar fascism
interwar communism
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| Areas of expertise |
I am the author of 'Novelists in Conflict: Ideology and the Absurd in the French Combat Novel of the Great War' (Rodopi 2004) and of 'France and the Spanish Civil War: Cultural representations of the War next Door, 1936-1945' (Ashgate 2011). I am co-editor of 'Sébastien Japrisot: The Art of Crime' (Rodopi 2009).
I also have an interest in remembrance of World War One more generally in French culture (visual and literary arts) and in interwar political culture in France.
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| Languages (other than English) |
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| Media experience |
Interviews with BBC World Service, Pravda, and local media.
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