Dervila Cooke
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Dr Dervila Cooke teaches in French and Francophone studies at SALIS (Dublin City University). Her research interests lie primarily in highly contemporary studies in French-speaking culture, mainly for France and Québec. Dr Cooke edited the 2016 thematic issue of the journal Comparative Literature and Culture on new work on immigration in contemporary writing in France, Québec and Ireland. Her initial research focused on the work of French writer Patrick Modiano, on whom she has published widely, including a monograph on his (auto)biographical fictions,, and a special text-image issue of French Cultural Studies. As of 2023, she has two monographs forthcoming with Palgrave MacMillan on narratives of dual culture youth in France and Québec. The first of these is focused on Indigenous, Migrant and Allophone Youth in Québec, while the second is focused on Life Writing and Transcultural Youth by authors of dual culture in France. Dr Cooke has a strong interest in Canada, particularly in Québec. She has been secretary of the Association of Canadian Studies in Ireland since summer 2018. In April 2016 she received the Prix de la délégation québécoise (Irlande) for a project on memories of childhood in recent autobiographical writing in Québec.
Dr Cooke is also interested in ecocritical approaches and in hands-on environmentalism. She has published on approaches to Newfoundland's overfishing crisis, in The Shipping News, and is working on expanding this area of her research. In 2021, she initiated and led the SeasonsPace project, funded by the IRCHSS. For this, Dr Cooke organised a series of seminars and events, and created links between French ,UK and Irish community gardens. Working alongside staff in the Institute of Education, the project also led and oversaw "Growing and Thinking" work with Irish primary and secondary schools, raising awareness of what is in season locally through hands-on growing projects and a programme of reflections on carbon footprint and food miles.
Dr Cooke’s research interests lie in French-speaking culture, mainly the highly contemporary period, including life-writing, fiction, film, documentary work, urban studies, photography, and some song. She welcomes supervision applications from graduate students in accounts of childhood and youth (and life-writing in general); --representations of migration and of immigrant experiences;-- hybrid identities in France and Quebec in literature and film or creative visual or verbal art---eco-criticism; ---urban studies of Paris or Montreal
Other topics may also be of interest but must have a strong French element. She does not supervise doctoral students on areas outside of French or Francophone literature, unless there is French and Francophone interest in the proposed thesis (usually a strong element) and unless it is a co-supervision with another supervisor who can supervise and direct the non-French parts.
Dr Cooke's degrees in French are from University College Dublin.I She was an Erasmus student at the Université de Caen during he B.A. and followed this with a very enjoyable year as a lectrice at the Université de Rennes II. She also spent two years in Paris, attached to the Ecole normale supérieure (Ulm) during her doctoral studies. She was an IRCHSS postdoctoral research fellow at Trinity College Dublin from 2004-2006. From 2006 to 2008, she was Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. She has also taught at University College Dublin, the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and Waterford Regional Technical College (now W.I.T.). She gained a PCTHE (Postgraduate certificate in teaching in higher education) from Oxford Brookes University in 2007. She joined the Department of French at Saint Patrick’s College in September 2008 and was incorporated into the School of Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies at DCU (SALIS) in September 2016. She has been a tenured professor (lecturer) since 2006 and has been teaching at university level since 1994. She holds several degrees in French literature (B.A, M.A, PhD), all with first class honours or distinction, as well as a certificate of teaching in higher education (PCTHE, 2007).
Book Chapter
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Peer Reviewed Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2023 | Ward, Monica, Fiona O’Riordan, Danielle Logan-Fleming, Dervila Cooke, Tara Concannon-Gibney, Marina Efthymiou & Niamh Watkins (2023) 'Interactive oral assessment case studies: An innovative, academically rigorous, authentic assessment approach'. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, . [DOI] | |
2022 | Dervila Cooke (2022) 'Entretien avec Maryam Madjidi sur Marx et la poupée et Pour que je m'. Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, . | |
2016 | Dervila Cooke (2016) 'Thematic Bibliography of 450 items for New Work on Immigration and Identity in France, Québec, and Ireland'. CLCWeb - Comparative Literature and Culture, 18 (4). | |
2016 | Dervila Cooke (2016) 'Immigrant and Irish Identities in Hand in the Fire and Hamilton's Writing between 2003 and 2014'. CLCWeb - Comparative Literature and Culture, 18 (4). | |
2016 | Dervila Cooke (2016) 'Introduction to New Work on Immigration and Identity in France, Québec, and Ireland (7000 words)'. CLCWeb - Comparative Literature and Culture, 18 (4). | |
2013 | Dervila Cooke (2013) 'Tradition, Modernity, and the Enmeshing of Home and Away: The Shipping News and Proulx’s 1990s Newfoundland'. Studies in Canadian Literature - Etudes en Litterature Canadienne, 38 (1):190-209. | |
2012 | Dervila Cooke (2012) '“Le ‘climat Modiano’ dans Des gens qui passent: Entretien avec Alain Nahum”, special issue of French Cultural Studies on “Modiano et l’image”'. French Cultural Studies, 23 (4):304-308. | |
2012 | Dervila Cooke (2012) '“‘Une représentation une fois pour toutes et pour toujours’? Un cirque passe de Modiano et Des gens qui passent de Nahum”'. French Cultural Studies, 23 (4):290-303. | |
2012 | Dervila Cooke (2012) '“Introduction”, special issue of French Cultural Studies on “Modiano et l’image”'. French Cultural Studies, 23 (4):279-289. | |
2011 | Dervila Cooke (2011) 'Hybridity and intercultural exchange in Marco Micone’s Le Figuier enchanté”'. The French Review, 84 (6):1160-1172. | |
2008 | Dervila Cooke (2008) 'Connection and Peripheral Encounters: Paris bout du monde (1992) and Les Passagers du Roissy Express (1989) In Journal of Romance Studies (Peer Reviewed journal)'. JOURNAL OF ROMANCE STUDIES, 8 (1):91-106. | |
2006 | Dervila Cooke and Colin Nettelbeck (2006) 'Modiano in the Feminine'. Nottingham French Studies, 45 (2):39-53. | |
2006 | Dervila Cooke (2006) 'Cléo and Chloé on the Margins of Parisian Flânerie: Questions of Self and Other in Cléo de 5 à 7 and Chacun cherche son chat'. Irish Journal of French Studies, (6):67-85. | |
2005 | Dervila Cooke (2005) 'Paris Tendresse by Modiano (with Photographs by Brassaï): a Photobiographical Creation'. Australian Journal of French Studies, 42 (2):143-158. | |
2004 | Dervila Cooke (2004) 'Hollow Imprints: History, Literature and the Biographical in Modiano’s Dora Bruder'. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 3 (2):131-145. | |
1998 | Dervila Cooke (1998) 'Créer le silence avec des mots’: Writing Silence in Chien de printemps by Patrick Modiano'. PAGES: Postgraduate Journal for Research Work in Progress, (5):43-51. |
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Teaching Interests
- Les Français au cinéma
- Autour de Paris: images et textes de la banlieue
- Introduction à la littérature
- Mémoire et identité (Modiano, Québec. Micone, Ernaux)
- Texte et cinéma des années noires
- Le français oral
- Langue et expression écrite
- French Translation Practice