DR KAY CHADWICK

Background and interests

Kay Chadwick studied at the University of Hull (B.A., M.A., Ph.D), and taught in Paris and Dundee before coming to Liverpool in 1990.

Her research interests focus generally on France in the twentieth century. She is particularly interested in the French experience of the Second World War, and on the legacy of that period in French history, literature and film. She also works on the relationship between an intransigent brand of French Catholicism and collaboration, and is completing her current project in this area, a monograph on the Catholic writer and notorious former collaborator Alphonse de Châteaubriant. Other research interests include the status and activity of the French Catholic Church within the secular French Republic, the Church's relationship with the French state, and secularism generally. Click here for further details on recent and forthcoming research publications.

Her current teaching largely reflects her research interests, and includes modules on modern and contemporary French studies and twentieth-century French history. See below for module details and links to specific resources.

Kay Chadwick is co-moderator of Francofil, a French Studies electronic discussion list created in Liverpool in 1995. She was Membership Secretary of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France from 1995-2000. The 1997 ASMCF conference on the theme France, fin(s) de siècle(s) was held in Liverpool in September 1997. An edited volume of essays entitled New Perspectives on the Fin de Siècle in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century France arising from the conference was published in May 2000. For further details, click on the highlighted text.

Contact details

By e-mail: Kay Chadwick
By telephone: 0151 794 2732
Consultation hours:
Normally Tuesdays 11-12; Wednesdays 11-12 (semester 1)
Mondays 11-12; Wednesdays 11-12 (semester 2)

Teaching and module resources

Year 1
Politics in the French Fifth Republic (FREN 111)
Introduction to French Studies II (FREN 112)
France in Crisis (FREN 120)

Year 2
Modern French Language (FREN 201/FREN 202)
Immigration in Modern and Contemporary France (FREN 235)
Francophone Identities (FREN 237)

Year 3
Church, State and Society in Modern and Contemporary France (FREN 327)
Resistance and Collaboration: The French Legacy (FREN 343)

Postgraduate
Aspects of Scholarly Research in the Humanities (RES 221)

 

 

Editor: Kay Chadwick
Last updated: February 2003
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