Dr. Ashley Harris
Teaching Fellow, French

Ashley Harris holds over five years of broad experience in HE teaching, research, public engagement, outreach and administration. She also has experience in working in diplomacy and the civil service in the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).

She has taught early modern to contemporary French and Francophone cultures, politics, and societies across her roles in Queen's University Belfast (3 years), the University of Surrey (1 year), the University of Stirling (1 year) and now Trinity College Dublin.

Her research focuses primarily on twentieth- and twenty-first-century French and Francophone culture, politics, and society. She is particularly interested in contemporary French sociocultural approaches and questions of equality, representation and identity.

She has published on the concept of the écrivain.e médiatique, using Virginie Despentes, Michel Houellebecq and Frédéric Beigbeder as case studies and has a forthcoming monograph on the subject.

She was Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the AHRC Remembering Empire project which explored memories and representations of French Algeria and the war for independence and the subsequent migration of pieds-noirs.

Her recent research looks at 'revisioning' the banlieues through grassroots visual cultures, on which she has two forthcoming articles.