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Dr Armelle Blin-Rolland joined Bangor University as Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies in 2014. Before then, she was a Teaching Fellow at the University of Bath, and a Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Leicester. She holds a PhD in French and Francophone Studies from Bangor University (2011), with a doctoral thesis on voice in adaptations of Céline's Voyage au bout de la nuit and Queneau's Zazie dans le métro. She also holds a BA in German from the Universite de Bretagne Occidentale (Brest), and an MA in European Cultures and Languages (Bangor University).
Dr Armelle Blin-Rolland's research specialisms include: French and Francophone ecocriticism and environmental humanities; text/image and bande dessinée studies; and adaptation and intermediality. She has published articles on these areas in journals including European Comic Art, Modern Languages Open, Modern and Contemporary France, Studies in Comics and Studies in French Cinema. She is the author of Adapted Voices: Transpositions of Céline’s ‘Voyage au bout de la nuit’ and Queneau’s ‘Zazie dans le métro’ (Oxford: Legenda, 2015). She has co-edited a special issue of European Comic Art on ‘Comics & Adaptation’ (stemming from a conference she co-organised at the University Leicester), and a special issue of Studies in Comics on ‘Comics & Nation’ (also stemming from a conference she co-organised, at Bangor University). She is review co-editor for European Comic Art.
Her current research project is entitled 'Narratives of a More-than-human France, 1945 to Today: Space, Environment, Resistance' and is funded by a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grant. It investigates the relationship between narrative, space and the environment in France since 1945, with a focus on ‘hyper-sites’ (nuclear sites, factory farms, industrial slaughterhouses, zoos, toxic landscapes). It aims to analyse the cultural narratives and spatial dynamics that have shaped relationships to the nonhuman in contemporary France, and modes of resistance against anthropocentric, gendered, (neo-)colonial, nationalistic and capitalist divisions of space. The corpus comprises a range of media, as well as scientific writings, direct action, political discourse and material sites. The project develops a French ecocriticism that questions what ‘French’ means from multispecies, ecofeminist and eco-decolonial perspectives, in exposing and contesting environmentally unjust narratives, and promoting modes of understanding and sharing territory as more-than-human. Beyond
the French context, this leads to a consideration of the role of Modern Languages in collective action towards sustainability.
Dr Armelle Blin-Rolland's current administrative responsibilities are: Subject Lead for French and Francophone Studies; School International and Year Abroad Officer; Year Abroad coordinator for French; School representative on Bangor University's Senate.
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Email: a.blin-rolland@bangor.ac.uk
Location: room 417, 3rd floor, New Arts building
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Undergraduate teaching
LXE-2025: Reading Fantastic Literatures (2nd year)
LXF-3112: Bande dessinee & adaptation (Final year)
LCF/LZF-1002: Advanced French 2 (1st year)
LCF/LZF-2020 & 2040: French language skills (2nd year)
LCF/LZF-3020, 3030 & 3040: French language skills (Final year)
LCE/LXE-3210 & 3200: Press Dossier (Final year)
Postgraduate teaching:
LXM-4035: French Film & Comic Adaptation
LXM-4001: Modes of Critical Theory (team-taught)
LXM-4002: Research Methods (team-taught)
LXM-4031: Critical Theory in Practice (team-taught)
Teaching qualification
FHEA
Cyfleoedd Project Ôl-radd
’Rydwyf yn fodlon goruchwylio cwrs PhD
Cyhoeddiadau
2022
- Wedi ei Dderbyn / Yn y wasgjava.lang.NullPointerException
2021
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
2020
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
2019
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
2017
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
2015
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
2014
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
2013
- CyhoeddwydFidelity versus Appropriation in Comics Adaptation: Jacques Carelman’s and Clément Oubrerie’s Zazie dans le métro
Blin-Rolland, A., 2013, Yn: European Comic Art. 6, 1, t. 88-109
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
2011
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
2010
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
Gweithgareddau
2022
- 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, University of Pittsburgh, March 24-26, 2022
More than human, more than meat: multispecies and multimedia narratives of factory farms and slaughterhouses in French culture
2022
Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Siaradwr) - Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland, Biennial Conference 2022‘Epochs, Ages, and Cycles: Time and the Environment’6–8 September 2022, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne
180 days, 100 000 years: Factory Farms, Industrial Slaughterhouses, Nuclear Sites and More-than-human Spacetimes in Contemporary France
2022
Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Siaradwr)
2021
- Comics & Music Symposium, Royal Holloway, University of London
10 Mai 2021
Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr) - Brittany in French-language Comics and Graphic Narratives
Lecture and seminar as part of the Post-16 Languages Recovery Project
25 Ion 2021
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Ymgysylltu ag ysgolion (Cyfrannwr) - Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France Conference, University of Chester, September 2nd-September 4th 2021, ‘Islands and archipelagos / Îles et archipels’
Nuclear Islands: Toxicity, Bodies, Power
2021
Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Siaradwr)
2020
- Graphic Entanglements: Women, Nature and Brittany
Invited talk as part of 'Drawing Gender: Women and French-language Comics' symposium at The Ohio State University.
29 Chwef 2020
Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr)
2019
- Sketching/Scripting Women: Women and Politics in Bande dessinee, Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing, Institute of Advanced Study, University of London
Event funded by: the Cassal Fund, IMLR (£708)
Since the mid-1990s, female artists have become an increasingly visible presence in bande dessinée (French-language comic art), a medium with which women were previously rarely associated as creators or even consumers. Research concerning the work of Francophone female graphic novelists has been slow to emerge but is now a growing field. The primary goal of the seminars in the Sketching/Scripting Women series is therefore to contribute to and help steer the development of research into female bande dessinée creation, by bringing together practitioners, academics and the general public.
The Spring 2019 seminar in this series centred on the theme of ‘Women and Politics in Bande dessinée’, which were discussed by four speakers: three academics (Dr Ann Miller as a keynote speaker, Dr Edward Still and Dr Armelle Blin-Rolland), and a prize-winning graphic novelist (Tanx). The three academic papers explored questions of the relationship between women and politics in female-authored bandes dessinées that focus on different historical and geographical contexts. Dr Ann Miller (University of Leicester) presented a keynote speech on ‘The Nude and the Naked: From Fine Art to Comics’; Dr Edward Still (University of Birmingham) presented a paper on ‘‘‘Monstrez-vous en tutu”: Obsessional Feminine Identity and Interpersonal Histories in the Bandes Dessinées of Nawel Louerrad’; and Dr Armelle Blin-Rolland (Bangor University) presented a paper on ‘Ecopolitics, Gender and Brittany in Bande dessinée’.
Following the three academic papers, graphic novelist Tanx spoke (in French) about her oeuvre and discuss her experience as a female artist in the French comics industry. Tanx’s work, with its distinctive underground and rock-inspired aesthetics, explores and subverts cultural and artistic representations of gender and the female body. Tanx was the 2009 co-recipient (for Esthétique et filatures, co-authored with Lisa Mendel) of the Prix Artémisia, an award created to honour the best female-created bande dessinée published each year.
26 Ebr 2019
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Trefnydd) - Studies in Comics (Cyfnodolyn)
Co-guest editor of the Special Issue of Studies in Comics on 'Comics & Nation'
2019
Gweithgaredd: Gweithgarwch golygyddol (Golygydd gwadd)
2017
- ASMCF Conference (Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France): Work & Play
From the Tennis Court Oath to Nuit Debout, work and play have been instrumental in organising socio-political life in the French Republic. Culturally too, work and play are formative of identity, inviting reflection on the power relations at stake in the construction and deconstruction of identities. This conference seeks to bring together a broad range of disciplinary approaches to consider theories, representations, practices and interconnections of work and play in France and the rest of the French-speaking world. Traversing sociological, political, anthropological as well as aesthetic and cultural spheres, the conference theme is intended to stimulate debate across a far-reaching horizon of enquiry.
Keynote Speakers:
Helen Abbott (University of Birmingham)
Claude Boli (Responsable scientifique du Musée National du Sport, Nice)
Sarah Waters (University of Leeds)
7 Medi 2017 – 9 Medi 2017
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn gweithdy, seminar, cwrs (Trefnydd) - Comics & Nation
With the generous support of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France (ASMCF)
In recent years, the rise of the ‘graphic novel’ has boosted academic interest in comic art from different disciplines and fields of study. Graphic texts, in their multiple forms and genres, have been a cultural manifestation reflecting societal changes, historical tensions and also their effects on individual stories since their inception. Comics have also been instrumental in the construction of national identities, both in nation-states and in stateless nations.
This conference aims to put into dialogue scholars working on a variety of cultures and disciplines to provide a forum for the discussion of the interrelation between comic art (comic books and strips, cartoons and caricature) and nation, placing special emphasis on text/image creation from minority cultures (e.g. Brittany, Corsica, Galicia, Catalonia, Wales, Scotland, Sardinia, etc.) but also including those from nation-states (e.g. UK, France, Spain, Italy, etc.).
13 Gorff 2017 – 14 Gorff 2017
Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Trefnydd) - European Comic Art (Cyfnodolyn)
Review co-editor
2017 – 2021
Gweithgaredd: Gweithgarwch golygyddol (Golygydd)
2016
- European Comic Art (Cyfnodolyn)
Co-editor of a special issue of European Comic Art on 'Comics & Adaptation'
1 Ion 2016 – 15 Ion 2017
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Golygydd gwadd)
2015
- Comics & Adaptation in the European Context
With the generous support of:
the Society for French Studies (SFS)
the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France (ASMCF)
10 Ebr 2015
Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Trefnydd)
Projectau
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Narratives of a More-than-human France, 1945 to Today: Space, Environment, Resistance
01/09/2022 – 30/09/2023 (Wrthi'n gweithredu)
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01/07/2017 – 30/11/2017 (Wedi gorffen)
Disgrifiad
In recent years, the rise of the ‘graphic novel’ has boosted academic interest in comic art from different disciplines and fields of study. Graphic texts, in their multiple forms and genres, have been a cultural manifestation reflecting societal changes, historical tensions and also their effects on individual stories since their inception. Comics have also been instrumental in the construction of national identities, both in nation-states and in stateless nations.
This conference aims to put into dialogue scholars working on a variety of cultures and disciplines to provide a forum for the discussion of the interrelation between comic art (comic books and strips, cartoons and caricature) and nation, placing special emphasis on text/image creation from minority cultures (e.g. Brittany, Catalonia, Corsica, Galicia, Kurdistan, Mapuche, Quebec, Scotland, Wales, etc.) but also including those from nation-states (e.g. China, France, Italy, Japan, Spain, UK, etc.).
Cysylltau: