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Dr Bill Kidd

Honorary Senior Research Fellow

French Stirling

Dr Bill Kidd

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Following an MA honours degree in French and Modern History at Glasgow, I undertook two years of postgraduate study as a Carnegie scholar at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris before taking up an apointment at Stirling University where I completed my doctorate. Successively, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader in French, I was Head of the University's new School of Modern Languages and Cultures before taking early retirement in 2007. I remain research active in an Honorary capacity.

Research (1)

One strand of my ongoing research arises from previous work on ‘sites of memory’ and identity (literary, linguistic, iconographical) in modern France, with a longstanding focus on representations of the Second World War. Alongside that, I have developed a more socio-anthropological focus on memory communities linked to diasporas of exile or migration (Spanish republicans, Pieds-Noirs, Maghrebins) in the Pyrénées-Orientales which have been the subject of several recent publications.

Projects

Minority Language in French Catalonia and Gaelic-Medium education in Scotland: a comparison
PI: Dr Bill Kidd
Funded by: The Carnegie Trust
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Outputs (32)

Outputs

Book Chapter

'Une mémoire de Pierre': Spaces of Memory and Grammars of Remembrance in Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion (1937)

Kidd W (2016) 'Une mémoire de Pierre': Spaces of Memory and Grammars of Remembrance in Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion (1937). In: Block M & Nevin B (eds.) French Cinema and the Great War. Remembrance and Representation. Film and History. London: Rowman and Little, pp. 117-130. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442260979/French-Cinema-and-the-Great-War-Remembrance-and-Representation

Book Review

La crise allemande du roman fran?ais, 1945-1949. La représentation des Allemands dans les best-sellers de l'immédiat après-guerre

Kidd W (2014) La crise allemande du roman fran?ais, 1945-1949. La représentation des Allemands dans les best-sellers de l'immédiat après-guerre. Review of:
Braganca, M, Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter Lang, 2012, 220 pp. ISBN 978-3034308359. Modern and Contemporary France, 22 (1), pp. 108-109. https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2013.831058

Book Chapter

(Un)packing the suitcases: postcolonial memory and iconography

Kidd W (2013) (Un)packing the suitcases: postcolonial memory and iconography. In: Barclay F (ed.) France's Colonial Legacies: Memory, Identity and Narrative. French and Francophone Studies. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 129-149. http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/F/bo16906149.html

Book Chapter

The long good-bye: pied-noir re-settlement in the Pyrénees-Orientales

Kidd W (2013) The long good-bye: pied-noir re-settlement in the Pyrénees-Orientales. In: Gemie S & Soo S (eds.) Coming Home? Vol. 2: Conflict and postcolonial return migration between France and North Africa, 1962-2009. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 33-52. http://www.cambridgescholars.com/coming-home-vol-2-14

Book Chapter

Remembering Lacombe Lucien - becoming Lucien Lacombe: mirror image or broken mirror?

Kidd W (2013) Remembering Lacombe Lucien - becoming Lucien Lacombe: mirror image or broken mirror?. In: Tame P, Jeannerod D & Braganca M (eds.) Mnemosyne and Mars: artistic and cultural representations of twentieth-century Europe at war. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 41-58. http://www.cambridgescholars.com/mnemosyne-and-mars-14

Book Review

Memory and Politics: Representations of War in the Works of Louis Aragon

Kidd W (2011) Memory and Politics: Representations of War in the Works of Louis Aragon. Review of: Memory and Politics: Representations of War in the Works of Louis Aragon. By Angela Kimyongur. (French and Francophone Studies). Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007. xv + 207 pp. ISBN 978-0708320884. French Studies, 65 (3), pp. 401-402. https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knr113

Book Chapter

Aragon, Léo Ferré et l'Affiche Rouge

Kidd W & Blyth A (2000) Aragon, Léo Ferré et l'Affiche Rouge. In: MacAnulty A (ed.) Aragon, Elsa Triolet et les cultures étrangères: actes du colloque de Glasgow vril 1992. Collection Annales Litteraires, 682. Besan?on: Presses Universitaires Franc-Comtoises. http://pufc.univ-fcomte.fr/aragon-elsa-triolet-et-les-cultures-etangeres-actes-du-colloque-de-glasgow-avril-1992.html

Book Chapter

Identity and Iconography: French War Memorials, 1914-18 and 1939-45

Kidd W (1992) Identity and Iconography: French War Memorials, 1914-18 and 1939-45. In: Hewitt N & Chapman R (eds.) Popular Culture and Mass Communication in Twentieth-Century France. Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, pp. 220-240. https://mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=3283&pc=9

Book Chapter

Predictions and reactions: from Bernanos to Vercors

Kidd W (1991) Predictions and reactions: from Bernanos to Vercors. In: Pugh A (ed.) France 1940: Literary and Historical Reactions to Defeat. Durham Modern Languages Series. Durham: Durham University Press, pp. 47-56.

Article

Von Ebrennac, Prince of Denmark?

Kidd W (1987) Von Ebrennac, Prince of Denmark?. French Studies Bulletin, 7 (22), pp. 17-19. https://doi.org/10.1093/frebul/7.22.17

Book Chapter

Les Commissions administratives départementales

Kidd W, Steel J & Weiss D (1972) Les Commissions administratives départementales. In: Rémond R & Bourdin J (eds.) Le Gouvernement de Vichy. Travaux et Recherches de la Fondation nationale des Sciences politiques, 18. Paris: Armand Colin, pp. 55-64.