Senior Lecturer in French
Senior Mentor, SLLF, with responsibility for co-ordinating student support and mentoring
Co-ordinator of SLLF Writing Support Centre

Room: 1.11
Tel: +44 20 7882 8290
Fax: +44 20 8980 5400
email: k.h.r.anderson@qmul.ac.uk

Modules convened: FRE 468 French Foundations (semester 1); FRE 504 Twentieth-century French Thought: values and violence; FRE 601 Imagining Modernity: creative writing; COM 506 Witnessing: positioning yourself in the present.

Office hours:  Tues 11-12 and Thurs 1-2

Research day (not contactable): Friday

Areas of specialisation

My teaching and research interests focus on the link between thinking and writing. I have a keen interest in developing courses which encourage students to value their own creativity as writers (Imagining modernity: creative writing and Witnessing: positioning yourself in the present); and to see learning as a process which engages imagination, emotions and the aesthetic self as much as intellect and rationality. My research interests also cover the interaction between imaginative writing and theoretical discourse, with particular interest in the ethical imagination.

With funding from the Student Experience Investment Fund, I co-ordinate the SLLF Writing Support Centre which provides weekly writing workshops for students at all levels of the undergraduate curriculum.

Publications

Books

• Paul Valéry and the Voice of Desire, Oxford: University of Oxford, European Humanities Research Centre, 2000
• Translation from the original Italian of Luce Irigaray, Democracy Begins between Two, London: The Athlone Press, 2000

Chapters in books

• 'Sartre and Jewishness: from Identificatory Violence to Ethical Reparation' in David Gascoigne, ed., French Culture, Violence and Identity: from Surrealism to the Néo-Polar, Peter Lang, 2007, pp.61-77

Articles

• ‘The Whole Learner: the Role of Imagination in Developing Disciplinary Learning’, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, Special Issue: Writing in the Disciplines- international perspectives, 9 (2010), 202-21
• 'The Whole Learner: Developing Creative Intelligence', Thinking Writing: News from the Writing in the Disciplines Iniative, Language and Learning Unit, Queen Mary, University of London, 2006
• 'La Première femme: the resurrection of the mother in the work of Camus and Irigaray', French Studies, LVI (2002), 29-43
• 'A New Culture of Difference. Luce Irigaray and the Creative Will', The Philosophers' Magazine, 20 (2002), 49-50
• 'Imagination and Ideology: Ethical Tensions in Twentieth-century French Writing', Modern Language Review, 96 (2001), 47-60

Creative writing

• ‘Be/longing’ in Book of Dreams, London: United Press, 2010

Current research projects

I am working on a book on the student writing engagement with the creative imagination.

Courses taught

French

• French Foundations
• Twentieth-century French Thought: values and violence
• Imagining Modernity: creative writing
• French II

Comparative literature

• European Culture and Society
• Witnessing: positioning yourself in the present