French

Contact Details

Title	Senior Lecturer (Head of Department)
Address	French Dept of French University College Cork
Telephone:	353 (0)21 4903287
Email:	ei.ccu.hcnerf@ytrageHP

Biography:

I studied Languages, Economics and Politics at what was then Kingston Polytechnic for my first degree, including a year at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques at Bordeaux. I then took a master's degree in Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham, which I followed up with a PhD thesis on Jean Baudrillard, Georges Bataille and photography. I came to UCC in October 1996, and have taught courses on cultural studies (including a Visual Culture course I started in 1997), philosophy, politics, feminism in France, the Enlightenment, Music and Culture, twentieth-century art, as well as literary seminars on transgression, the City, writing and sexuality, Paris. My research and teaching are defined by the analysis and application of the ideas of 'Theory', as can be seen below.

I am currently working on a book on Georges Bataille, Roger Caillois and the Philosophy of Science (with Gary Genosko). This research, or at least the initial work, has been assisted by the Irish Research Council of the Humanities and Social Science's Project Grant.

I am also working on a book on 'noise music', which will draw together research I have done over the last few years on noise, ideas of noise, and the place of noise in music. I am also what is termed a 'practitioner' of noise music (I wouldn't see myself as a musician, and many would agree...), and have performed and recorded in two groups: Safe, Working with Children. I have also had audio and audiovisual installations in group shows.