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Curriculum Vitae: Patrick Corcoran

Personal Details:Name: Matthew Patrick Corcoran

Nationality : British

Address: 30 Kings Road Kingston-­upon-­ThamesSurrey KT2 5HS

Telephone: 020 8546 6505 (home);; 07710877588 (mobile)

Current employer: University of Roehampton, Roehampton Lane, London SW15 5PJ

Higher Education: 1969 -­ 1974 King’s College London1974 -­ 1975 Ecole normale supérieure, rue d’Ulm, Paris1975 -­ 1981 King’s College London1982 – 1983 School of Education, Exeter University

Academic Qualifications:BA (Hons) French -­ Upper second class: London University, June 1973AKC (Associateship of King’s College): June 1973MA French (with distinction): London University, September 1974PhD (20th century French novel): London University, May 1981PGCE: Exeter University, June 1983PFHEA (awarded 2015)

Employment:1977 -­ 1979 Lecteur Université de Paris X, Nanterre1979 -­ 1980 Tutor King’s College London1980 -­ 1981 Tutor Collège Ste. Barbe, Paris1981 -­ 1982 Tutor French Dept., Exeter University1983 -­ 1985 Teacher St Austell 6th Form College, Cornwall1985 -­ 1987 Teacher Westminster City School1987 – Appointed to a Lectureship in French at Roehampton

Institute/Roehampton University. Subsequently appointed Principal Lecturer (1991);; Head of Department of Modern Languages (1996-­ 2000);; Deputy Head of School (2003 – 2004);; Reader in French (2004 -­2008);; Assistant Dean (Taught Programmes) and Quality and Standards Adviser (2006-­2008);; Professor of French (2008);; Assistant Dean – Research (2009 – 2010);; Deputy Provost (2010 – 2015) line management of HoDs of 5 academic departments and cross-­university responsibility for Learning and Teaching);; Professor of French (from Sept. 2015)

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Administrative Experience: Broad range of experience as Programme Convener, Head of Department, Assistant Dean and Deputy

Provost and as a member/chair of various School/Departmental and University Committees. I have been particularly active over the years on avatars of

Teaching and Learning committees;; Quality and Standards committees;; Curriculum Strategy committees;; Research Committees;; Ethics committees;; and Research Student Co-­ordinating group.

Regular work as chair of a number of University Programme Review and Approvals panels, staff appointments panels and PhD vivas;;

2005 -­2009: Director of the Centre for Research in Postcolonial and Transcultural Studies, Roehampton University;;

2010: Appointed co-­ordinator of the ‘Groupe Kourouma’ network: Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM) based at the Ecole normale supérieure, rue d’Ulm in Paris.

Examining experience: 1994 -­ 1997 External Examiner for French: La Sainte Union College of H.E., Southampton;; 1995 -­ 1998 Moderator for Modern Languages Access course, Richmond-­upon-­Thames College of

F.E.;; 1998 -­ 2002 External Examiner for BA French: Canterbury Christ Church University College, Kent;; 1999 -­ 2003 External Examiner for BA French: University of the West of England;; 2000 -­ 2004 External Examiner for BA French: University of Keele;; 2007 -­ 2011 External Examiner for BA French: University College, London University March 2009 -­ External Examiner for BA French: Open University.

PhD Theses examined: Trinity College, Dublin (1998);; Nottingham University (2002);; Aberdeen University (2003);; Liverpool University (2004);; Hull University (2005)University of Leicester (2009) [MPhil]UCL (2012)

Teaching experience:In addition to French language courses at all levels, my principal contributions to teaching have been the provision of modules in French Literature;; Francophone Literature & Cinema;; and, Translation at Undergraduate level and in Francophone Postcolonial Studies at Master’s level.

PhD Supervision to completion:L.Tayeb (Manouba University, Tunis): ‘Patterns of identity in Post-­imperial Literature’ (2005)

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Other relevant experience/Membership of learned societies: Founder member of ASCALF (Association for the Study of Caribbean and African Literature in

French). Executive committee member and office holder since its inception;; President of ASCALF : December 2000-­ November 2002;; President of the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies (formerly ASCALF) 2002-­2004;; Member of Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, London University;; Member of APELA (Association pour l’Etude des Littératures Africaines);; Member of Society for French Studies (member of Executive committee from 2003-­2009);; Member of Association of University Professors and Heads of French (member of Executive

Committee 2004-­2009);; Member of SEDA (Staff and Educational Development Association);;

External Consultancies: Member of Validation Panel of BA Combined Studies Programme at La Sainte Union College of

Higher Education, Southampton (1994);; Member of Validation Panel of Modular Access course at Richmond-­upon-­Thames College of F.E.

(1994);; Member of Validation Panel of BA French programme at Canterbury Christ Church University

College (July 1997);; Official Translator and Interpreter at the Jeux Méditerranéens, Montpellier (June,1993);; Freelance translator for the Comité National Olympique et Sportif Français (1995-­6);; Higher Education Funding Council for England Quality Assessment Specialist Subject Assessor in

French (1995-­1996):Universities assessed:University of Bristol, January 1996;; University of Westminster, March 1996University of Sussex, April 1996

Team Liaison Officer for the French National football team and delegation participating in Euro 96. Official interpreter for the players and delegation at pre-­match and post-­match press conferences.

Occasional interpreting duties for the Football Association 1996-­2000;; External Assessor: Independent Evaluation of Teaching in French, University of Sheffield, March

2006;; Spring 2012 – mid-­cycle review of Modern Language Provision: University of Westminster;; Evaluation of Post-­doctoral Fellowship proposals for the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

(2011 and 2013);; Evaluation of book proposal for LUP, November 2013;; Consultant on External Examining processes : Open University, 2013;; Article reviewing for French Studies (February and June 2011;; January 2014)

Awards April 2008: Chevalier dans l’ordre des palmes académiques for services to French culture.

Research funding: British Academy award of £250 to support conference costs (Paternity and Fatherhood/Le Père et la

Paternité, Roehampton 1996);;

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HEFCE capital equipment award of £4900 to support cost of creating a Research Centre in Francophone Studies, Autumn 2000;;

Grant from French Embassy’s ‘Service Culturel’ to support of the work of ASCALF/SFPS in 2002, £3700;;

British Academy award of £1250 to support conference costs (Postcolonialism and the French-­speaking world, IFRU, 2002);;

Grant from French Embassy’s ‘Service Culturel’ to support of the work of SFPS in 2003, £1500;; AHRC research leave scheme award of £15,301.00 for project entitled: The Cambridge Introduction

to Francophone Literature. (Institutional leave: September 2005;; AHRC matched leave: Spring 2006).

AHRC research leave scheme award of £35,223.00 for project entitled: Postcolonial Derision. (Institutional leave: September 2009;; AHRC matched leave: Spring 2010).

Conferences organised/co-­organised:

International conference: Francophonie: Mythes et Masques, Roehampton, Spring 1995;; International conference: Paternity and Fatherhood/Le Père et la Paternité, Roehampton, Spring

1996;; ASCALF International Conference, Institut français, London, November 1999;; ASCALF International conference: Postcolonialism and the French-­speaking world, Institut

français du Royaume-­uni, London, November 2002 (Lead organiser);; SFPS International conference: Postcolonialism: the new comparatism, Institut français du

Royaume-­uni, London, November 2003 (Co-­organiser). Postcoloniality and Ecology, Roehampton University, November 14th -­15th 2008 (Lead organiser).

Radio Interviews:Radio France Internationale;; 13th December 2003: Entretien sur l’œuvre d’Ahmadou Kourouma/Discussion on the works of Ahmadou Kourouma.

Training and Development: Various staff development activities at Roehampton, including

o Research Student supervision programme;;o Appraisal training;;o Chairing of appointments panels;;o Equality and Diversity training.

Leadership Development programme (Leadership Foundation and University of Roehampton): January – June 2010.

Senior Strategic Leadership Programme (Leadership Foundation): October and December 2011. Strategic Change Programme (Technology Enhanced Learning): November 2012-­ July 2013

Publications List

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Single-­authored books:

In preparation : Postcolonial Derision (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press)

The Cambridge Introduction to Francophone Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp.1-­288. ISBN 0-­52161-­493-­7.

Ferdinand Oyono: ‘Une Vie de Boy’ & ‘Le Vieux Nègre et la Médaille’ (London: Grant and Cutler Critical Guides, 2003), pp. 1-­ 90. ISBN 0-­7293-­0437-­X

‘Le Pleurer-­Rire’ (Glasgow: Glasgow French and German Publications, 2002), pp.1-­96. ISBN 0-­85261-­760-­7.

Edited and co-­edited books:

Forthcoming : P.Corcoran, D. Delas and J.-­F. Ekoungoun (Eds) ‘Les Soleils des indépendances’ d’Ahmadou Kourouma: une longue genèse (Paris: CNRS, collection Planète Libre essais, 2017). Introduction and two chapters.

P. Corcoran (Ed), Sembène Ousmane: ‘O Pays, mon beau peuple!’ (London: Methuen ‘20th Century Texts, 1986). Critical edition including notes and introduction, pp. 1-­72. ISBN 0-­423-­51350-­8.

B. Jones, A. Miguet and P. Corcoran (Eds), Francophonie: Mythes Masques et Réalités (Paris: Publisud, 1996). Contributor (pp.291-­99) and co-­editor. ISBN: 2-­86600-­721-­2.

Chapters in books:

P.Corcoran, D. Delas and J.-­F. Ekoungoun (Eds) ‘Les Soleils des indépendances’ d’Ahmadou Kourouma: une longue genèse (Paris: CNRS, collection Planète Libre essais, 2017). Chapter entitled ‘Histoire de l’édition : état des lieux des documents d’archive’.

P.Corcoran, D. Delas and J.-­F. Ekoungoun (Eds) ‘Les Soleils des indépendances’ d’Ahmadou Kourouma: une longue genèse (Paris: CNRS, collection Planète Libre essais, 2017). Chapter entitled ‘La campagne rédactionnelle québécoise: de l’avant-­texte au texte’.

J. Parkin and J.Phillips (Eds.), Laughter and Power (Oxford/Bern: Peter Lang, 2006). Chapter entitled ‘Black Humour: La Vie et demie de Sony Labou Tansi’, pp. 187-­207. ISBN 3-­03910-­504-­3.

C.Rolfe and Y. Rocheron (Eds.), Shifting Frontiers of France and ‘Francophonie’ (Oxford/Bern: Peter Lang, 2004). Chapter entitled ‘Cultural Ambivalence in the novels of Ahmadou Kourouma’, pp. 255-­269. ISBN 3-­906768-­31-­7.

T.Gorilovitz (Ed.), Studia Romanica, Bibliothèque française N° 4, Imaginaire et écriture de l’exil,

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Debrecen, 2002. Chapter entitled ‘L’exil intériorisé dans le roman francophone africain’, pp. 21-­32. ISBN 963 472 7115.

K. Salhi (Ed.), French in and out of France: language policies, intercultural antagonisms and dialogue (New York/Bern: Peter Lang, 2002). Chapter entitled ‘Language and Cultural Affiliation in West Africa: the case of Ahmadou Kourouma’, pp.313-­334. ISBN 3-­906768-­47-­3.

L. Spaas (Ed.), Echoes of Narcissus (New York/Oxford: Berghahn, 2000). Chapter entitled ‘Black Narcissus: Reflections on Identity in African Narrative’, pp. 235-­244. ISBN 1-­57181-­761-­1.

L. Spaas (Ed.), Paternity and Fatherhood (London: MacMillan, 1998). Chapter entitled ‘Henri Lopes’s Le Chercheur d’Afriques’, pp.147-­158. ISBN 0-­333-­64237-­6.

J.P. Little and R.Little (Eds.), Black Accents (London: Grant and Cutler, 1997). Chapter entitled ‘Fathers and sons in African Fiction’, pp. 81-­95. ISBN 0-­7293-­0390 X.

L. Spaas and B. Stimpson (Eds), Robinson Crusoe: Myths and Metamorphoses (London: MacMillan, 1996). Chapter entitled ‘Foe, Metafiction and the discourse of power’, pp.256-­66. ISBN 0-­312-­12928-­9.

Translated book:

X. Martin, Nature humaine et Révolution française, Angers: DDM,1994. Translated as Human Nature and the French Revolution, New York/Oxford: Berghahn, 2001. ISBN 1-­57181-­709-­3

Articles et alia:

Postcolonial Genetic criticism : the (un)making of Ahmadou Kourouma’s Les Soleils des indépendances, French Studies, Vol. 71.1, January 2017.

The Untranslatability of culture : Ahmadou Kourouma’s Allah n’est pas obligé’, Forum for Modern Language Studies, Vol. 52, no 3, July 2016, pp. 274-­292, ISSN 0015-­8518.

‘Translating alterity : intercultural communication in the novels of Ahmadou Kourouma’ in Journal of Romance Studies, Vol. 13, issue 2, Summer 2013, pp. 19-­40, ISSN 1473-­3536.

Patrick Corcoran, ‘La Genèse des Soleils des Indépendances’ in Sous les ‘Soleils des Indépendances’ : A la rencontre d’Ahmadou Kourouma in Textuel, no 70, January 2013, pp. 11-­23, ISBN : 978-­2-­7442-­0183-­7, ISSN : 0766-­4451.

Patrick Corcoran and Jean-­Francis Ekoungoun, ‘L’avant-­texte des Soleils des Indépendances’ in Genesis, no 33/11, Afrique-­Caraïbe, November 2011, pp. 101-­18, ISBN 978-­2-­84050-­804-­5, ISSN

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1167-­5101.

'Kourouma' in Dictionary of African Biography. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Emmanuel Akyeampong (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press), forthcoming.

‘The Child in Francophone Literature: from Inscription to Proscription’ in Francophone Postcolonial Studies, no 7.2, Autumn/Winter 2009, pp. 11-­33, ISSN 1741-­8283.

‘Bâtardise de la Politique: Pour une critique génétique des Soleils des Indépendances d’Ahmadou Kourouma’ in Francophone Postcolonial Studies, no 6.1, Spring/Summer 2008, pp. 40-­61, ISSN 1741-­8283.

‘Le Postcolonialisme, la francophonie et le fait littéraire’ in Francophone Postcolonial Studies, no 4:2, Autumn/Winter 2006, pp. 58-­70, ISSN 1741-­8283.

‘Ahmadou Kourouma 1927 -­ 2004’ in Francophone Postcolonial Studies, no 2: 1, Spring 2004, pp. 87-­96, ISSN 1741-­8283.

‘W(h)ither Francophone Postcolonial Studies?’ in Francophone Postcolonial Studies, no 2: 1, Spring 2004, pp. 11-­19, ISSN 1741-­8283.

‘Henri Lopes’ in Majumdar, M. (Ed.) Francophone Studies: The Essential Glossary (London: Edward Arnold, 2002) ISBN 0-­340-­80697-­4.

‘Child soldiers’ in Ken Saro-­Wiwa’s Sozaboy and Ahmadou Kourouma’s Allah n’est pas obligé, Mots Pluriels no 22, University of Western Australia, 2002. (See http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP2202pc.html ).

‘Entretien avec Ahmadou Kourouma, ASCALF Bulletin, no 24, 2002, pp. 19-­32, ISSN 0791-­ 4938.

‘Entretien avec Henri Lopes’, ASCALF Bulletin, no 24, 2002, pp. 6-­18, ISSN 0791-­ 4938.

‘Le Pleurer-­Rire de Henri Lopes: Perspectives narratives et structure du roman’, ASCALF Yearbook 2000, pp.199–214, ISSN 1365-­3938.

‘Cheating at cards and cheating with words;; randomness and order in Giono’s Les Grands Chemins’, Synthesis (Special number on Chaos Theory), Vol 1, no 1, University of Tennessee, 1995, pp. 59 -­71.

Several contributions on francophone African literature in P. France (Ed.) The New Oxford Companion to French Literature (Oxford: OUP, 1994).

Le Journal Télévisé: Language teaching video based on news extracts. Developed as part of the Thèmes project and broadcast across Europe by Olympus satellite (1991).

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Public interviews/entretiens:

Interview with Ahmadou Kourouma, ‘Mosaïques festival’ at the Institut français du Royaume-­uni, March 2001.

An evening with Patrick Chamoiseau, at the Institut français du Royaume-­uni, May 2005. (jointly conducted with Professor Lorna Milne of St Andrew’s University).

Interview with Raphaël Confiant, ‘Mosaïques festival’ at the Institut français du Royaume-­uni, May 2006.

Interview with Gisèle Pineau, ‘Mosaïques festival’ at the Institut français du Royaume-­uni, May 2007.

Unpublished Conference papers:

‘La Latrine de Séverin Cécile Abega’: FrancophoneWriting , London Guildhall University Conference, July 1994;;

‘The two manners of Henri Lopes’: ASCALF conference, French Institute, London, 1995;;

‘Espace et Culture dans le cinéma francophone africain’: ASCALF conference, French Institute, London, 1996;;

‘Le Regard ironique de Ferdinand Oyono’, Roehampton Colloquium: ‘Le Regard’, February 1997;;

‘Sony Labou Tansi’ Roehampton Colloquium: ‘Francophonie et Surréalisme’, April 1997;;

‘Espace et Culture dans le cinéma francophone de l'Afrique de l'Ouest’, CIEF conference, Moncton, Canada, May 1998;;

‘Daniel Pennac: Recuperating the marginal (Echoes of the Postmodern in the Malaussène novels)’ Intercultural Transfer Colloquium, Roehampton and QMC London, September 1998;;

‘What the Interpreter tells us: Intercultural communication in Kourouma's Monnè, outrages et défis, ASCALF conference, French Institute, London, 1998.

‘Solitaire ou solidaire: Nomadisme et engagement dans l’œuvre d’Abdourahman Waberi’, CIEF conference, Abidjan, 2002.

‘The ethics of anomie: the city in contemporary francophone West African war fiction’, UCL/SOAS AHRB workshop: Literature and the city, SOAS, April 2003

‘Spivak’s Death of a Discipline’, London French Research Seminar, IRS: London University, April

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2004;;

‘Teaching Francophone Postcolonial Studies in the Sixth Form’ Paper delivered to the annual conference of Independent School Teachers at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford in June 2007.

‘La dérision viscérale dans l’œuvre de Sony Labou Tansi’: Conference entitled ‘Le Rire européen’ jointly organised by Stirling University and the Université de Perpignan, October 2007.

‘Vers une esthétique de la dérision: le cas d’Ananda Devi’: Conference entitled ‘Penser l’altérité dans la littérature mauritienne’ organised by the Université de Louvain, December 2007.

‘Contemporary representations of postcolonial childhood’: Keynote paper at a Postgraduate study day at Newcastle University, May 2008.

‘Text and Urtext: the genesis of Les Soleils des Indépendances', Francophone Research Seminar, Cambridge University , February 2009.

‘Derisory differences: Gender and Animality in the works of Ananda Devi’Contemporary Women’s Writing in French seminar (CWWF), Reading University, 13th March 2010.

‘Le dérisoire: pour une poétique postcoloniale. Le cas d’Ananda Devi’. Invited paper at an international conference : 'Perspectives européennes des études littéraires francophones' Université de Grenoble, 17th-­19th March 2010 ;;

‘Du nomadisme à la migration : figures du déplacement dans l’œuvre de A.A.Waberi’. Invited paper at the second Litpost colloquium, Barcelona, 9th -­10th July 2010.

‘Nouvelle Lecture de Kourouma : Soleils des Indépendances’. Seminar at ITEM (Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes), Paris, 22nd October 2010.

‘Birahima n’est pas obligé: analyse des gloses dans Allah n’est pas obligé’. Seminar at ITEM (Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes), Paris, 11th May 2012.

‘Genetic criticism and the archive(s) : Rethinking Les Soleils des Indépendances’, SFPS conference, University of London: School of Advanced Studies, 22nd November 2013.

‘Du comique au dérisoire: le rire postcolonial de Kourouma’, International conference : ‘Ahmadou Kourouma & Cie’, University of Oporto, 11th December 2013.

‘L’écrivain et ses manuscrits: Monnè, outrages et défis’. Seminar at ITEM (Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes), Paris, 24th September 2015.

‘Kourouma’a Dictionaries’, French Seminar, Magdalen College Oxford, November 2016.

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