Dr. Jo McCormack
Ba (Hons); PhD
Principal Lecturer
Location:
Forster Building, City Campus
Phone: 0191 515 2388 / 3192 / 2395 / 2201
Email:
jo.mccormack@sunderland.ac.uk
Biography
I am the Team Leader for Languages. After studying for a PhD in European Studies at Loughborough University which examined how the Franco-Algerian War is taught in French secondary schools I worked in France as an EFL teacher in various settings for several years and then in Australia as a lecturer in French studies. I joined the University of Sunderland in September 2009.
Teaching Areas
French Language and Culture, Contemporary European Society, Introduction to Language Learning, TESOL (Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages) dissertations.
Research Interests
My research examines French collective and social memories of the Franco-Algerian War (1954-62) in contemporary France; with particular emphasis on transmission of memories. My PhD examined the way the Algerian War is taught in French secondary schools. I am the author of Collective Memory: France and the Algerian War, published in 2007, which examines the way the conflict in Algeria is taught in schools in France, discussed in families and written about in the media. I am also co-editor (with Dr Paul Allatson) of Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities and (with Dr Alistair Rolls) of a special issue of the Australian Journal of French Studies, both published in 2008.
Selected Publications
McCormack, Jo, Pratt, Murray and Rolls, Alistair (Eds), Hexagonal Variations: Diversity, Plurality and Reinvention in Contemporary French Studies, Amsterdam and New York: Editions Rodopi, forthcoming.
Allatson, Paul and MCormack, Jo (Eds) Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities, Amsterdam and New York: Critical Studies Series No. 30 Editions Rodopi, 2008.
http://www.rodopi.nl/functions/search.asp?Bookld=CRIT+30
McCormack, Jo and Rolls, Alistair (Eds) 'Voices from North Africa', Australian Journal of French Studies, vol XLV, no.2 (May-August 2008).
Collective Memory: France and the Algerian War, Lanham MA: Lexington, 2007.
