- Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies, University of Leeds
Dr Fraser McQueen, FHEA is a lecturer in French and Francophone Studies at the University of Leeds, having previously held positions as a lecturer and postdoctoral research fellow at the Universities of Bristol, Edinburgh, and Stirling. He completed his PhD, entitled 'Race, Religion, and Communities of Friendship: Contemporary French Islamophobia in Literature and Film' in November 2021, with cross-institutional supervision from the Universities of Stirling and Aberdeen. His first monograph, which explores Islamophobia and community in contemporary France through a corpus of twelve literary and filmic texts, is currently under contract with and has been submitted to Liverpool University Press. His current research interests retain the interdisciplinary focus of his earlier work, drawing on scholarship from literary theory, history, film studies, sociology, anthropology, and political science. He has interests in the cultural production of the French far right; the mainstreaming of far-right conspiracy theories; the work of Michel Houellebecq (on which he has published two articles in peer-reviewed journals); representations of jihadi women in media and cultural production; the role of utopianism in both propagating and opposing racism; and the national variations (or lack thereof) in the so-called 'culture wars' that have underpinned politics in recent years. A common thread in all of these apparently diverse interests is an interest in postcolonial and decolonial studies, and in the difficulties both have had in being recognised as legitimate fields of research in France (whether in the academy or public discourse). Fraser is currently membership secretary of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France and co-convener, with Dr Salomé Ietter, of the Political Studies Association's French Politics and Policy specialist group. Between 2019 and 2023, he was publicity officer of the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies.
Experience
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2021–presentLecturer, University of Stirling
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2017–2021Tutor, University of Stirling
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2015–2016Lecteur d'Anglais, Université de Toulon
Education
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2021University of Stirling, Ph.D. French Studies
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2015University of St Andrews, MLitt French Studies
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2014University of Stirling, BA (Hons) French and History - First Class
Publications
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2022The Unimaginable Apostate: Olivier Arnaubec’s 2023. Le Mur, Xavier Durringer’s Ne M’abandonne pas, and Zahwa Djennad’s Tabou. Confession d’un jeune de banlieue, Contemporary French Civilization
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2021Christophe Guilluy’s France Périphérique and the Absence of Race from Michel Houellebecq’s Sérotonine, Modern and Contemporary France
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2020Zombie Catholicism Meets Zombie Islam: Reading Michel Houellebecq's Soumission with Emmanuel Todd, Forum for Modern Language Studies
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2018France’s ‘Elites’, Islamophobia, and Communities of Friendship in Sabri Louatah’s Les Sauvages, Modern and Contemporary France
Grants and Contracts
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2022IASH Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Role:
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Funding Source:
- University of Edinburgh
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2016AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership Scotland studentship
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- Funding Source:
- Arts and Humanities Research Council
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