About

Dr. Ashley Harris holds over five years of broad experience in Higher Education. She has taught early modern to contemporary French and Francophone cultures, politics, and societies across her roles in Queen’s University Belfast (Lecturer, 3 years), the University of Surrey (Lecturer, 1 year), the University of Stirling (Postdoctoral Researcher, 1 year). She also has experience in working in diplomacy in the UK’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).

Her research focuses primarily on twentieth- and twenty-first-century French and Francophone culture, politics, and society. She is particularly interested in contemporary French sociocultural approaches and questions of equality, representation and identity. She has published articles on contemporary authorship, media and gender, and has a forthcoming monograph on Virginie Despentes, Michel Houellebecq and Frédéric Beigbeder (2024). Her most recent research looks at ‘revisioning’ the banlieues through grassroots visual cultures.