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CV – Grace Neville (UCC)
Dr Grace Neville,
Statutory Lecturer in French,
University College,
Cork.
Phone: 021-4902581
E-mail: [email protected]
Academic Qualifications
Degrees, etc.
BA French and Irish
Awarding Institution
NUI / UCC
(double first class honours:
1st place in French class,
joint 1st place in Irish class,
1st place overall in BA
honours graduating class)
MA in French
NUI
Doctorate
Université de Lille III, France
(highest grade awardable:
‘mention très honorable
avec les félicitations du
jury’)
Date of initial appointment to UCC: 1977
Date of appointment to present grade: 1991
MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS
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European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies / EFACIS (founding
member, former central committee member and sole Irish representative);
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Co-opted corresponding board member (‘correspondant etranger’) of Etudes Irlandaises
(the main journal of Irish Studies in Continental Europe, founded by Prof. Patrick
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Rafroidi); co-opted onto the board (‘comite scientifique’) of Etudes Irlandaises at its
annual meeting in the Sorbonne, Paris, January 1998; Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches
Irlandaises de l’Université de Lille 111/ CERIUL;
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Société Française d’Etudes Irlandasies/ SOFEIR;
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Bealoideas: Folklore of Ireland Society;
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Irish Texts Society;
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American Conference for Irish Studies/ ACIS;
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Irish Association for Research in Women’s History;
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Association des Etudes Françaises et Francophones d’Irlande / ADEFFI
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International Courtly Literature Society;
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Institute of Romance Studies, London;
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Women in French/ WIF;
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French Teachers’ Association of Ireland (former National Executive member, former
FTA Bulletin editorial committee member, former Cork branch treasurer, national
conference organizer, etc.);
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Co-opted member of the Management Board, ITE/ Institiud Teangeolaiochta Eireann/
Irish Linguistics Institute 1996-2004
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Member of the HEA Equality Unit Management Board (1995-2002);
EXTERNAL EXAMINER
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Current External Examiner in French, University of Limerick (2002-6);
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Current External Examiner in French, Mary Immaculate College of Education, Limerick
(2001-5);
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Joint supervisor, doctoral thesis (‘co-tutelle’), on invitation of Prof. Jean Brihault, former
President, Université de Rennes 11, 2004-;
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Former external examiner for Masters and DEA / Diplôme d’Études Approfondies (first
part of doctorate) theses at the Universities of Paris III/ Sorbonne and Lille III;
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External supervisor, MA thesis, WIT/ Waterford Institute of Technology, 2004-;
COMMITTEE WORK AT UCC
Current member of:
" Elected to three consecutive three-year terms on UCC Governing Body (1998-2007)
" Staff Enhancement and Development Committee;
" Bord na Gaeilge (several three-year terms);
" Women’s Studies Board (Chair 1999 – 2007);
" Space Allocation Committee (several terms);
" Arts Faculty Post-Graduate Committee;
" Board of European Studies;
" Board of Languages and Cultural Studies;
" Niteline Committee (1998-);
Past member of:
" Academic Council (several terms);
" Buildings Committee and several sub-committees thereof e.g. working group on space
allocation in new wing of ORB, Parking Strategy Committee, etc.;
" Library Policy Committee;
" Library Users’ Committee;
" Arts Faculty Library Committee (several terms);
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" Promotions and Establishment Board;
" Mature Students Committee;
" Arts Faculty Admissions Liaison Committee;
" Arts Faculty Staff-Student Committee;
" Arts Faculty Time-Table Committee;
" Medieval and Renaissance Studies Board;
" MA Programme in Medieval Studies (co-ordinator);
" Teaching and Development Committee;
RESEARCH GRANTS RECEIVED
Grants received from inter alia:
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The Ireland Fund de France
CNRS/ Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris)
French Embassy (Dublin)
British Council (Dublin)
Eolas
Irish Dept of Foreign Affairs Cultural Relations Committee
NBST
Léargas
HEA
Cork 2005 City of Culture Committee
UCC President’s Office
UCC Arts Faculty Publications Fund
UCC Arts Faculty Research Fund
UCC Arts Faculty Conference Fund
In addition:
" UCC Honan Scholarship
" UCC College Entrance Scholarship
" Cork Corporation Scholarship
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Edward and Matilda Ryan Scholarship (UCC)
French Government Gold Medal for Proficiency in French
French Government Annual Scholarship
President’s Teaching Awards for Excellence in Teaching, UCC
etc.
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
(1) Franco-Irish Links
Book: Grace Neville and Eamon Maher (eds), France-Ireland : Anatomy of a Relationship.
Studies in History, Literature and Politics (Frankfurt: Peter Lang), 2004, 372pp.
TV Documentary: Not Fade Away: documentary commissioned by RTE/ Irish State Television,
broadcast at prime time on 18 August 2004. I was the historical/ academic advisor, researcher
and translator for this documentary which was based exclusively on my research into early
twentieth century French photographs of Ireland which I had tracked down to le Musée Albert
Kahn, Paris.
‘Les Voyageurs Français en Irlande’: article commissioned by the French State museum, le
Musée Albert Kahn, Paris, for inclusion in the catalogue of a major, year-long exhibition of its
Irish material which will open in March 2005, c. 15pp. My RTE documentary, Not Fade Away,
has also been requested by le Musée Albert Kahn for inclusion in this exhibition.
Translations: ‘Carnet de Voyage’: translation commissioned by the French State museum, le
Musée Albert Kahn, Paris, for inclusion in its forthcoming exhibition material, 2005-6 (see
above), c. 70 pp.
Translation from French into English of c. 60 pp. of Continental European travellers’ accounts of
Cork from medieval to modern times, in Grace Neville and Joachim Fischer, Cork through
European Eyes: A Multilingual Anthology (Cork: Collins Press), early 2005;
Exhibition: Continental European Visitors to Cork, Boole Library UCC (and other venues
throughout Co. Cork), 2005;
Articles:
‘I hate France with a mortal hatred: Daniel O’Connell and France’ in Eamon Maher and Grace
Neville (eds), France-Ireland: Anatomy of a Relationship (Bern and New York: Peter Lang,
2004), pp. 241-258;
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‘The Death of Terence MacSwiney: A French Perspective’,
The Journal of the Cork Archaeological and Historical Society, vol. 106, 2001, pp. 143-166;
‘Le Regard des Irlandais sur la France et les Français dans la tradition orale en Irlande’,
Le Même et l’Autre: Regards Européens, edited by Alain Montandon (Clermont-Ferrand,
Association des Publications de la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Sociales, Université BlaisePascal, 1997), pp.45-55;
‘L’Invention du mythe de Napoléon dans la mémoire irlandaise’,
Revue du GRAAT: special issue entitled Irlande: Vision(s)/ Révisions, edited by Martine
Pelletier, 1998, (Tours, Publications des Groupes de Recherche Anglo-Américaines de
l’Université François Rabelais de Tours, 1998), pp.181-91;
‘Cette contrée méconnue et si souvent outrage: towards an Analysis of the Writings of J-J.
Prévost, a Traveller in mid-Nineteenth Century Ireland’,
Cycnos: Irlande – Exils, edited by Monique Gallagher (Nice, Centre de Recherche sur les
Ecritures de Langue Anglaise, Association des Publications de la Faculte des lettres de Nice,
Université de Nice, 1998), pp.111-25;
‘Frères ennemis? Writings of the French Expeditionary Leaders in Late Eighteenth-Century
Ireland’,
in Christine O’Dowd-Smyth (ed.), Littératures francophones: La Problématique de l’Altérité
(Waterford: Waterford Institute of Technology School of Humanities Publications, with
collaboration of Embassies of France and Canada in Ireland, 2001), pp.127-144;
‘French Connections from Tipperary to Toulouse: Perceptions of France in the Ryan of Inch
Papers’,
Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, vol. 22, 2005, 17 pp.;
‘Images of Continental European Otherness in the Ryan of Inch Papers’,
Gert Hoffmann and Joachim Fischer (eds), Festschrift (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2005), 20pp.;
‘Words, words, words: Language about Language in France and Ireland’, Proceedings of the
Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 2004, Harvard University, vol. 20, c. 18pp.
‘A la recherche de l’Irlande perdue: Two French Photographers in Ireland in 1913’,
Etudes Irlandaises, 16 (1991), pp.75-89;
(with Eamon Maher), Introduction to France-Ireland : Anatomy of a Relationship. Studies in
History, Literature and Politics (Frankfurt: Peter Lang), 2004, 5pp.;
‘The Commodification of Irish Culture in Contemporary France and Beyond’, in Eamon Maher
and Eugene O’Brien (eds), La France face à la mondialisation/France and the Struggle Against
Globalisation (New York: The Mellen Press, 2005), 18pp.;
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‘Les Images derrière les Images: Léamh Bachelardien ar na Dánta Grádha’,
Oghma, 5 (1993), 11-18;
‘Les Dánta Grádha et la poésie de troubadours: un genre littéraire paradoxal’,
Aquitaine and Ireland in the Middle Ages, edited by Jean-Michel Picard (Dublin, Four Courts
Press, 1995), pp.161-72;
‘Filial Ingratitude in a French Fabliau and an Irish Folktale’,
Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 17 pp.;
‘Returning the Gaze: Men and Masculinities in the Dánta Grádha’,
Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 15pp.;
‘French Language and Literature in Medieval Ireland’,
Etudes Irlandaises, vol. XV, 1990, pp.23-35;
‘Franco-Irish Relations in the Latter Middle Ages’,
Etudes Irlandaises, 5 (1980), pp.50-63;
‘Norman French’ in James S. Donnelly (ed.), The Encyclopaedia of Irish History and Culture
(London and New York: Macmillan, 2004), 2pp.;
‘Short Shrouds and Sharp Shrews: Echoes of Jacques de Vitry in the Dánta Grádha’,
The Fragility of her Sex: Medieval Irishwomen in their European Context, edited by Christine
Meek and Katherine Simms (Dublin: The Four Courts Press, 1996), pp.87-100;
(2) Emigration/ the History of ‘people with no history’
‘The History of People with No History: John Healy’s Nineteen Acres’,
article invited for publication by ed. Prof. James Rogers for inclusion in special issue of New
Hibernia Review: A Quarterly Record of Irish Studies, (University of St Thomas, MN, USA)
2005, 20 pp.;
‘Land of the Fair, Land of the Free? The Myth of America in Irish Folklore’,
Exiles and Migrants: Crossing Thresholds in European Culture and Society, edited by Anthony
Coulson (Brighton, Sussex University Press, 1997), pp.57-71;
‘Rites de passage: Rituals of Separation in Irish Oral Tradition’,
New Perspectives on the Irish Diaspora, edited by Charles Fanning (Carbondale, Southern
Illinois University Press, 2000), pp.117-130;
‘Westward Bound: Emigration to North America in the Irish Folklore Commission Archives’,
Etudes Irlandaises, 17 (1992), pp.195-207;
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‘”She never then after that forgot him”: Irishwomen and Emigration to North America in Irish
Folklore’,
Mid-America: An Historical Review, 74/iii (1992), pp.271-89;
‘Dark Lady of the Archives: Towards an Analysis of Women and Emigration to America in Irish
Folklore’,
Chattel, Servant or Citizen: Women’s Status in Church, State and Society, edited by Mary
O’Dowd and Sabine Wichert, (Belfast, The Institute of Irish Studies/ The Queen’s University,
1995), pp.200-14;
‘Mother Courage? Irish Mothers and Emigration to North America’,
in Patricia Kennedy (ed.), Motherhood in Ireland (Dublin and Cork: Mercier, 2004), pp. 270292.
(3) Short stories/ non-mainstream literature
‘Normalement on devrait être anormales: Normes, marges et marginaux chez Claire Bretécher’,
in Eamon Maher (ed.), Un Regard en arrière sur la littérature d’expression française au
vingtième siècle : Questions de marginalité et d’identité (Besançon : Presses Universitaires de
Besançon, 2005), 20pp.;
‘Dark Forces: Music and Silence in the Fabliaux’,
The Irish Journal of French Studies/ Cahiers de l’ADEFFI (L’Association des Etudes Françaises
et Francophones d’Irlande), vol. ii, 2002, pp. 27-43 ;
‘Fox eats Heron in Learned Irish Love Poetry’,
Mythes, Croyance et Religions dans le Monde Anglo-Saxon, vol. 10, Université d’Avignon
(1992), pp.83-96;
‘La Réception de l’Oeuvre de Pierre-Jakes Hélias dans le monde anglophone’,
in Pierre-Jakes Helias : Bigoudin universel, edited by Francis Favereau (Rennes: Presses
Universitaires de Rennes, 2001), pp. 19-32 ;27-37 ?
‘Medieval French Fabliaux and Modern Urban Legends: Back to Square One?’,
Béaloideas: The Journal of the Irish Folklore Society, 57 (1989), pp.133-49;
‘”All these pleasant verses”?: Crá, Ciapadh agus Céasadh sna Dánta Grádha’,
Nua-Léamha: Gnéithe de Chultur agus Polaitiocht na hEireann c.1600-c.1900, edited by Máirin
Ni Dhonnchadha (Dublin, An Clochomhar Teoranta, 1996), pp.72-88;
‘Returning the Gaze: Men and Masculinities in the Danta Gradha’,
Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, Harvard University.
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(4) Irish Matters for a (mainly) French Public
‘Romantic Ireland’s Dead and Gone: Did it ever Exist? The Case of the Dánta Grádha’,
In Honorem Patrick Rafroidi: Les Romantismes Irlandais: Currents in Irish Romanticism,
1991, Presses de l’Université de Lille 111, pp.101-11;
‘L’Essentiel est invisible aux yeux: Les Représentations de l’au-delà dans la tradition orale en
Irlande’,
L’Irlande: Imaginaire et Représentation (ed. Godeleine Logez-Carpentier), 1997, Presses de
l’Université de Lille 111, pp.157-71;
‘Poésie irlandaise: Introduction, traduction et notes’,
Patrimoine Littéraire Européen: Racines Celtiques et Germaniques, edited by J.-Ch. Polet,
preface by Claude Pichois, 111 (Brussels, De Boeck Université, 1992), pp.249-267;
‘Littérature irlandaise du moyên âge: introduction, traductions et notes’,
Patrimoine Littéraire Européen: Premières mutations de Petrarque à Chaucer, 1304-1400, 11,
edited by J.-Cl. Polet, 11 (Brussels, De Boeck Université, 1995), pp.48-54, 526-529, 689, 723724;
Patrimoine Littéraire Européen: Prémices de l’Humanisme, 1400-1515, edited by Jean-Claude
Polet, preface by Claude Pichois, IV (Brussels, De Boeck Université, 1995), pp.11-13, 201-204.
‘Autour de l’idée de la nature’,
Etudes Anglaises, 67 (1978), 12pp.;
‘Medieval Irish Courtly Love Poetry: An Exercise in Power Struggle?’,
Etudes Irlandaises, 7 (1982), 19-30;
‘Mythe et folklore et leurs expressions littéraires dans la légende de Diarmuid et Gráinne’,
Mythe et Folklore et leurs Expressions Littéraires en Irlande, edited by R. Alluin-Popot and B.
Escarbelt (Lille, Presses de l’Université de Lille 111, 1988), pp.53-68;
‘La Symbolique de nombres dans Toruigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne’,
PRIS-MA: Bulletin de Liaison de l’Equipe de Recherche sur la Littérature d’Imagination du
Moyen Age, edited by Pierre Gallais (Poitiers, Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de Civilisation
Médiévale, Université de Poitiers, 1992), pp.31-45;
‘Tous les jours fête: Towards and Analysis of Games and Pastimes in Irish Folklore’,
Cycnos (Université de Nice), 10/ii, (1993), pp.11-18;
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‘L’Essentiel est invisible aux yeux: Les Représentations de l’au-delà dans la tradition orale en
Irlande’,
L’Irlande: Imaginaire et Représentation, edited by Godeleine Logez-Carpentier, (Lille, Presses
de l’Université de Lille 111, 1997), pp.157-171;
‘Belles de jour: Images de la beauté féminine chez les troubadours d’Irlande au moyen âge’,
Centre Universitaire d’Etudes et de Recherches Médiévales d’Aix, 2000, pp. 401-411;
Review of Julia Carlson’s Banned in Ireland: Censorship and the Irish Writer (1990, London,
Routledge),
Etudes Irlandaises, vol. XVII, 1992, pp.232-4;
‘Irish Literature in English: The Year’s Work, Autumn 1986-Autumn 1987’,
Etudes Irlandaises, vol. XII, 1987, pp.211-33 (with P. Rafroidi et al.);
‘Irish Literature in English: The Year’s Work, Autumn 1987-Autumn 1988’,
Etudes Irlandaises, vol. XIII, 1988, pp.161-91 (with P. Rafroidi et al.);
‘Irish Literature in English: The Year’s Work, Autumn 1988-Autumn 1989’,
Etudes Irlandaises, vol. XIV, 1989, pp.197-220;
‘Irish Literature in English: The Year’s Work, Autumn 1989-Autumn 1990’,
Etudes Irlandaises, vol. XV, 1990, pp.181-214 (with R.Alluin-Popot);
‘Irish Literature in English: The Year’s Work, Autumn 1990-Autumn 1991’,
Etudes Irlandaises, vol.XVI, pp.173-207;
‘Irish Literature in English: The Year’s Work, Autumn 1991-Autumn 1992’,
Etudes Irlandaises, vol.XVII, 1992, pp.175-209;
(5)Other
‘The Humanities and the Universities in Modern Society’,
The Future of UCC: Proceedings of a Symposium held in UCC on 22 April 1989 (ed. W.
Reville), 1989, pp.28-35;
‘The Lady Vanishes: Vertical Segregation and Barriers to Promotion for Female Academics’,
Women Staff in Irish Colleges: Proceedings of the Conference in University College Galway 2223 September 1995, 1996, Cork, Higher Education Equality Unit, pp.79-91;
‘Summer Jobs in France’,
French Teachers’ Asssociation Bulletin (1987), 4pp.;