Professor Johnnie Gratton

I studied French at the University of Kent at Canterbury (BA 1972), where I went on to become a postgraduate (1972-75). I obtained my PhD, on 'The Poetic Language of André Breton', in 1981. My first teaching post was in the French Department of University College Dublin, where I worked from 1975 to 2002 before being appointed to the 1776 Chair of French at Trinity College Dublin in 2002. I served as Head of Dept from 2002 to 2005, before being awarded an IRCHSS Senior Research Fellwship for the academic year 2005-06. I was elected a Fellow of the College in 2004 and was appointed Director of Research of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies in October 2006. As well as language, I teach modern and contemporary French literature, particularly autobiography and biography, and, at postgraduate level, contribute actively to the French Department's MPhil programme, Textual and Visual Studies, which I also currently direct. My main current research interest lies in contemporary French autobiography and biography, with particular reference to works exploring the relations between writing and photography.

  19th and 20th century writing   Aesthetics   Art Criticism   Contemporary France   Critical theory   French Language/Literature   Literary Criticism   Mixed-Media Art   Narrative theory   Photography   Visual Arts