My research interests are focused in the areas of Francophone Postcolonial Studies and Slavery Studies. I am interested in issues of historical memory, commemoration, cultural heritage (including oral and material cultures) and the uses of the past in the present. I am a specialist in the area of the Francophone Caribbean, particularly Haiti, but also have wider interests across the French Atlantic world, particularly in the areas of migration and diaspora.
In the past 5 years in UCC, I have co-led the ‘Memory, Commemoration and Uses of the Past’ research cluster within the Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures. Working within CASiLaC has reinforced my collaborative and cross-disciplinary interests. This resulted in the organization of a large international conference on material culture and memory at UCC in November 2018, co-organized with my colleague Dr. Chiara Giuliani. The impetus from this conference resulted in a successful Irish Research Council New Foundations bid by myself and the cluster co-convenors, Chiara Giuliani and Dr. Cara Levey. It has also resulted in an edited volume, entitled Memory, Mobility and Material Culture (Routledge, 2022).
My research features in the virtual collection ‘Islands and Empires’ at the National Maritime Museum in London and ‘Revolutionary Routes: Ireland and the Black Atlantic’ at EPIC in Dublin. I have contributed to discussions in broadcast media, particularly with regard to slavery and memory. In the summer of 2020, I made a radio appearance on ‘The Business’ (RTÉ Radio 1) on the impact of the transatlantic slave trade.
I am the coordinator within the Department of French for the BSc International Business with Languages programme. I coordinate first and second year specialist modules FR1901 Understanding France for International Business and FR2901 French Society and Institutions for students of this programme and am Erasmus coordinator for the programme also.
I supervise student dissertations within both the MA in Global Cultures and Languages and the MA in Translation Studies. I would be happy to supervise students at Master's and doctoral level working in any area relevant to my interests, and particularly on memory and heritage in the Caribbean and in the wider French-speaking world.
Biography
Dr Kate Hodgson has been a lecturer in the French department at UCC since 2016. Before joining UCC she was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Liverpool. She has also worked as a researcher on the EURESCL project (Slave Trades, Slavery, Abolition and their Legacies in European Histories and Identities), funded by the EU Seventh Framework programme, at the University of Hull and the CNRS in Paris. She holds degrees from the University of Cambridge, Sorbonne Paris Nord and University College London. Dr Hodgson's research interests are focused in the areas of Francophone Postcolonial Studies and the history, memory and legacies of enslavement.
Research Interests
My research interests are focused in the areas of Francophone Postcolonial Studies and Slavery Studies. I am interested in issues of historical memory, commemoration, cultural heritage (including oral and material cultures) and the uses of the past in the present. I am a specialist in the area of the Francophone Caribbean, particularly Haiti, but also have wider interests across the French Atlantic world, particularly in the areas of migration and diaspora.
In the past 5 years in UCC, I have co-led the ‘Memory, Commemoration and Uses of the Past’ research cluster within the Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures. Working within CASiLaC has reinforced my collaborative and cross-disciplinary interests. This resulted in the organization of a large international conference on material culture and memory at UCC in November 2018, co-organized with my colleague Dr. Chiara Giuliani. The impetus from this conference resulted in a successful Irish Research Council New Foundations bid by myself and the cluster co-convenors, Chiara Giuliani and Dr. Cara Levey. It has also resulted in an edited volume, entitled Memory, Mobility and Material Culture (Routledge, 2022).
My research features in the virtual collection ‘Islands and Empires’ at the National Maritime Museum in London and ‘Revolutionary Routes: Ireland and the Black Atlantic’ at EPIC in Dublin. I have contributed to discussions in broadcast media, particularly with regard to slavery and memory. In the summer of 2020, I made a radio appearance on ‘The Business’ (RTÉ Radio 1) on the impact of the transatlantic slave trade.
Research Grants
| Project | Funding Body | Start Date | End Date | Award | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fragments: Migrants and Material Memory | Irish Research Council | 01-JAN-19 | 01-SEP-19 | €4,000.00 | |
| Haiti and the International Politics of Anti-Slavery | British Academy | 01-JAN-12 | 31-DEC-15 | ||
| ‘A Series of Marvellous Resurrections’: Afterlives of the Haitian Revolution | Art & Humanities Research Council | 01-SEP-05 | 31-MAY-10 |
Publications
Book Chapters
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2022) | 'Cadres nationaux et internationaux entourant l’abolition : la législation anti-esclavage et les changements constitutionnels' Kate Hodgson (2022) 'Cadres nationaux et internationaux entourant l’abolition : la législation anti-esclavage et les changements constitutionnels' In: Annie Fitte-Duval (eds). Droit et esclavage. Paris: Karthala. [Details] | |
| (2022) | 'Migrating things, multimodal forms: 21st-century graphic literature and the mapping of global mobilities through objects' Kate Hodgson (2022) 'Migrating things, multimodal forms: 21st-century graphic literature and the mapping of global mobilities through objects' In: Chiara Giuliani and Kate Hodgson (eds). Memory, Mobility and Material Culture. London: Routledge. [Details] | |
| (2018) | 'Haiti’s Fête Nationale: A revolutionary site of memory' Kate Hodgson (2018) 'Haiti’s Fête Nationale: A revolutionary site of memory' In: Edward Vallance (eds). Remembering early modern revolutions: England, North America, France and Haiti. London: Routledge. [Details] | |
| (2015) | 'Haiti and the Memorial Discourses of Slavery After 1804' Kate Hodgson (2015) 'Haiti and the Memorial Discourses of Slavery After 1804' In: At the Limits of Memory: Legacies of Slavery in the Francophone World. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. [Details] | |
| (2014) | '“Dedicated to the Sound Politicians of all the Trading Nations of Europe” - Sierra Leone and the European Colonial Imagination' Kate Hodgson (2014) '“Dedicated to the Sound Politicians of all the Trading Nations of Europe” - Sierra Leone and the European Colonial Imagination' In: Slavery, Abolition and the Transition to Colonialism in Sierra Leone. Trenton: Africa World Press. [Details] | |
| (2013) | 'Envisager l’avenir après l’esclavage: Voyageurs abolitionnistes dans la Caraïbe, 1833-1848' Kate Hodgson (2013) 'Envisager l’avenir après l’esclavage: Voyageurs abolitionnistes dans la Caraïbe, 1833-1848' In: Couleurs, esclavages, libérations coloniales 1804-1860. Bécherel: Les Perséides. [Details] | |
| (2012) | '“A thoroughly national work”: Blame and re-imagining abolitionist identities' Kate Hodgson (2012) '“A thoroughly national work”: Blame and re-imagining abolitionist identities' In: Slavery, memory and identity: national representations and global legacies. London: Pickering & Chatto. [Details] |
Edited Books
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2022) | Memory, Mobility and Material Culture Chiara Giuliani and Kate Hodgson (Ed.). (2022) Memory, Mobility and Material Culture London: Routledge. [Details] | |
| (2015) | At the Limits of Memory: Legacies of Slavery in the Francophone World Nicola Frith and Kate Hodgson (Ed.). (2015) At the Limits of Memory: Legacies of Slavery in the Francophone World Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. [Details] | |
| (2012) | Slavery, Memory and Identity: National Representations and Global Legacies Douglas Hamilton, Kate Hodgson and Joel Quirk (Ed.). (2012) Slavery, Memory and Identity: National Representations and Global Legacies London: Pickering & Chatto. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2018) | 'Franco-Irish Saint-Domingue: Family Networks, Trans-colonial Diasporas' Kate Hodgson (2018) 'Franco-Irish Saint-Domingue: Family Networks, Trans-colonial Diasporas'. Caribbean Quarterly, 64 (3-4):434-451 [Details] | |
| (2016) | ''Pays-là chaviré': Revolutionary politics in nineteenth-century Haitian Creole popular music' Kate Hodgson (2016) ''Pays-là chaviré': Revolutionary politics in nineteenth-century Haitian Creole popular music'. Small Axe, 49 [Details] | |
| (2015) | 'French Atlantic Appropriations: Montlinot, eighteenth-century colonial slavery, penal and forced labour schemes between Europe, Africa and the Americas' Kate Hodgson (2015) 'French Atlantic Appropriations: Montlinot, eighteenth-century colonial slavery, penal and forced labour schemes between Europe, Africa and the Americas'. Forum For Modern Language Studies, 51:2 [Details] | |
| (2014) | 'Internal Harmony, Peace to the Outside World: Imagining Community in Nineteenth-Century Haiti' Kate Hodgson (2014) 'Internal Harmony, Peace to the Outside World: Imagining Community in Nineteenth-Century Haiti'. Paragraph, 37:2 [Details] | |
| (2009) | 'Pour que surgisse le passé: Remembering the Unknown Maroons of Haiti' Kate Hodgson (2009) 'Pour que surgisse le passé: Remembering the Unknown Maroons of Haiti'. Francophone Postcolonial Studies, 7.1 [Details] |
Online Database
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2012) | European Political Cultures of Anti-Slavery. Kate Hodgson (2012) European Political Cultures of Anti-Slavery. Online Database [Details] |
Professional Activities
Honours and Awards
| Year | Title | Awarding Body | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Haiti and the International Politics of Anti-Slavery | British Academy |
Professional Associations
| Association | Function | From / To | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies | Membership Secretary | 30-NOV-14 / 01-JAN-22 | |
| Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies | Editorial Board | 01-JAN-18 / |
Committees
| Committee | Function | From / To | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teaching & Learning Committee | Representative for the Department of French | 2020 / | |
| CACSSS Academic Development Committee | Committee Member | 2018 / | |
| CACSSS Community Engagement committee | Representative for the School of Languages | 2017 / | |
| BComm International board | Board member | 2016 / |
Education
| Year | Institution | Qualification | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | University College London | PHD | French | |
| 2005 | Sorbonne Paris Nord University | Master's | Comparative Literature | |
| 2003 | University of Cambridge | MA Cantab | Modern and Medieval Languages |
Languages
| Language | Reading | Writing | Speaking | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| French | Fluent | Fluent | Fluent | |
| Italian | Functional | Functional | Basic | |
| Portuguese | Functional | Functional | Functional |
Teaching Activities
Teaching Interests
At UCC I teach specialist modules in Francophone Caribbean Studies (FR4310), Travel Writing (FR2313), and Society and Politics in the Francophone world (FR4702, LL6024). I also teach on a wide range of other modules within the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures.
I am the coordinator within the Department of French for the BSc International Business with Languages programme. I coordinate first and second year specialist modules FR1901 Understanding France for International Business and FR2901 French Society and Institutions for students of this programme and am Erasmus coordinator for the programme also.
I supervise student dissertations within both the MA in Global Cultures and Languages and the MA in Translation Studies. I would be happy to supervise students at Master's and doctoral level working in any area relevant to my interests, and particularly on memory and heritage in the Caribbean and in the wider French-speaking world.