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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.

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.

Research projects (1)

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)

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.