Lecturer in French, Associate at the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities (CAMC), Coventry University
My research is interested in the ways in which memoryscapes develop over time, what values they represent(ed), and how this is reflected in contemporary memory policies. My work particularly focuses on representation – or lack thereof – of marginalised groups (predominantly through race, gender, and religion), and the ways in which monuments might be in/appropriate to current representation, as well as how we might improve memorial policies to better respond to collective memorial needs. My field is French and Francophone memory studies, and my current project looks at Paris from the French Revolution (1789) to the present, through a lens of a postcolonial critique of cultural memory theory. The project critiques the problematic dominance of the capital over the francophone world.