Dr. Ashley Harris
Teaching fellow, French

Dr Ashley Harris joined the French department at Trinity College Dublin in 2023. She is currently spearheading the new French for Teachers Upskilling postgraduate programme at TCD, after having secured national funding from the Department of Education and Youth. Prior to this, she held posts in Queen's University Belfast, University of Surrey and University of Stirling. Between her PhD and coming back into academia, she worked as Strategic Advisor for the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office. 

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.