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Details for Professor Martin Hurcombe
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| Name | Professor Martin Hurcombe | ||||||
| Job title | Professor of French Studies |
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| Department | Department of French University of Bristol |
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| Personal web page | http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/French/MHurcombe.html | ||||||
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| Qualifications | B.A. (Hons.), Ph.D.(Bristol), PGCE | ||||||
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| Membership of professional bodies | Executive member of the Group for War and Culture Studies (based at the Universities of Westminster and Bristol). |
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| Keywords | French cultural representations of war World War One Spanish Civil War totalitarianism political commitment memory interwar fascism interwar communism |
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| Areas of expertise | I am the author of 'Novelists in Conflict: Ideology and the Absurd in the French Combat Novel of the Great War' (Rodopi 2004) and of 'France and the Spanish Civil War: Cultural representations of the War next Door, 1936-1945' (Ashgate 2011). I am co-editor of 'Sébastien Japrisot: The Art of Crime' (Rodopi 2009). I also have an interest in remembrance of World War One more generally in French culture (visual and literary arts) and in interwar political culture in France. |
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| Media experience | Interviews with BBC World Service, Pravda, and local media. |
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