Profile

Neil Foxlee

Associate Lecturer

School of Journalism, Media and Communication

nfoxlee1@uclan.ac.uk

B.A. (Hons) in Modern and Medieval Languages (French and German), Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
M.A. in French Studies, University of Sussex
Ph.D., UCLan. Thesis title: ‘A Multi-Contextualist Approach to Albert Camus’s “The New Mediterranean Culture”: A Case Study in Intellectual-Historical Method’
Visiting Research Fellow, Lancaster University

Teaching

2009- : RH4004 Rhetoric in Politics (MA module)
           RH4005 Rhetoric of Narrative and Image (MA module)
 http://www.uclan.ac.uk/information/courses/ma_rhetoric.php
2008:  PO1400 Debating Politics
2007:  EN1210 Introduction to the Study of Literature.
2006:  EN2900 Reading Texts: Theory and Practice (Literary Theory).
2005:  EN2900 Reading Texts: Theory and Practice (Literary Theory).
2004:  EG2000 English Language Workshop (Oral and Written Presentation).

For media coverage of the new MA in Rhetoric, the first in the UK, see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8149765.stm and http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=408317&c=1.

Publications

Books
Albert Camus’s ‘The New Mediterranean Culture’: A Text and its Contexts (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010)
http://www.peterlang.ch/index.cfm?event=cmp.cst.ebooks.datasheet&id=54564

Articles
‘“Abstraction”, anti-intellectualisme, autocritique chez le jeune Camus’, Albert Camus 22 (Revue des Lettres Modernes) (2010), 155-73.

‘“Arabes”, “Algériens” et autres appellations dans le discours camusien’, Bulletin de la Société des Études Camusiennes 88 (2009), 35-8.

‘Une approche multi-contextualiste de “La nouvelle culture méditerranéenne”.’ Bulletin de la Société des Études Camusiennes 84 (2008), 16-20.

‘“Réflexions sur la générosité”: un article peu connu d’Albert Camus.’ Bulletin de la Société des Études Camusiennes 81 (2007), 9-14. [Erratum: for ‘Musulmane’ (pp. 10-11), read ‘Antar’. Camus’s article is now included in Vol. IV of the new Pléiade edition of his Œuvres complètes, ed. Raymond Gay-Crosier et al. (Gallimard, 2008), pp. 1320-2.]

‘Mediterranean Humanism or Colonialism with a Human Face? Contextualizing Albert Camus’ “The New Mediterranean Culture”.’ Mediterranean Historical Review 21 (2006), 77-97. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a755207005~db=all~jumptype=rss#

‘“Un manifeste dégradant” comme objet de la polémique camusienne dans “La nouvelle culture méditerranéenne”.’ Bulletin de la Société des Études Camusiennes 77 (2006), 28-30.

Book chapters/co-edited book
‘Intertextuality, Interdiscursivity and Identification in the 2008 Obama Campaign’, in Identity, Alterity, Hybridity, ed. Ioana Mohor-Ivan and Gabriela Juliana Colipcă (Galaţi: Galaţi University Press, 2010), pp. 26-42.

(with Christopher Williams) ‘New Religious Movements in Post-Communist Russia and East-Central Europe’, in G. McKay, C. Williams, M. Goddard, N. Foxlee and E. Ramanauskaitė (eds.), Subcultures and New Religious Movements in Russia and East-Central Europe (Peter Lang, 2009).
http://www.peterlang.ch/index.cfm?event=cmp.cst.ebooks.datasheet&id=52822&concordeid=11921

Book reviews
David Sprintzen, Critique of Western Philosophy and Social Theory (New York: Palgrave Macmillan). Chroniques Camusiennes 1 (Sep. 2010), 19-20.

John Foley, Albert Camus: From the Absurd to Revolt (Stocksfield: Acumen, 2008). Bulletin de la Société des Études Camusiennes 88 (2009), 47-8.

Mark Orme, The Development of Albert Camus’s Concern for Social and Political Justice (Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007). Modern Language Review, Vol. 104, No. 3 (July 2009), pp. 877-8.

Albert Camus in the 21st Century. A Reassessment of His Thinking at the Dawn of the New Millennium, ed. Christine Margerrison, Mark Orme and Lissa Lincoln (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008). Bulletin de la Société des Études Camusiennes 84 (2008), 44-5.

Invited Keynote Lecture
‘Intertextuality, Interdiscursivity and Identification in the 2008 Obama Campaign’, Identity, Alterity, Hybridity, 14-16 May 2009, Dunărea Jos University, Galaţi, Romania.
Other Conference, Seminar and Workshop Papers
‘Bridging the Differences: The Bakhtin Circle, Begriffsgeschichte and the Cambridge School’, Concepts, Metaphors and Discourses, the 13th Annual World Conference of the History of Political and Social Concepts Group, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, 16-18 September 2010.

‘Mash-ups and Call and Response in the 2008 Obama Campaign’, Texting Obama: Politics, Poetics, Popular Culture, Manchester Metropolitan University, 7-10 September 2010.

‘Initiating a Dialogue: Critical Discourse Analysis, Corpus Linguistics and the History of Concepts’, New Directions in the History of Concepts, 12th Annual Conference of the History of Political and Social Concepts Group, London and Oxford, 17-19 September 2009.
View the Powerpoint document.

‘La pensée de midi or la pensée du Midi? Camus’s Problematic “Mediterranean Humanism”.’ France and the Mediterranean, 30th Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Contemporary and Modern France, Portsmouth, 3-5 September 2009.

‘Concepts, Texts and Discourses’ (two parts).
Part One: ‘Contextualist Approaches to Intellectual-Historical Discourse Analysis’, http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/groups/lip/papers/lent2009/W2_Foxlee_part%201_updated.pdf;
Part Two: ‘Contextualizing Albert Camus’s “The New Mediterranean Culture”’, http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/groups/lip/papers/lent2009/W3_Foxlee_part%202.pdf . Language, Ideology and Power seminar series, Lancaster University, January 2009.

‘New Religious Movements: From Western Theories to Eastern European Realities’. Society and Lifestyles: Subcultures and Lifestyles in Russia and East-Central Europe, University of Salford, 4-6 December 2008.
View the Powerpoint document.

‘Hip-hop: African-American Roots, Global/European Branches.’ Society and Lifestyles EU FP6 workshop, Pécs, Hungary, 2007.
View the Powerpoint document.

‘From Theory to Practice: A Case Study in Applying Intellectual-Historical Methodology.’ UCLan Dept. of Education and Social Science research seminar, 2006.

‘East Meets West: Constructing a Mediterranean Identity in Albert Camus’s “La Nouvelle culture méditerranéenne”.’ Mediterranean Encounters: People, History and Literature, Cambridge University, 2005.

‘Manufacturing Memory: Le Journal de la Résistance and the Liberation of Paris.’ Public lecture, Imperial War Museum, London, 2003.

‘Poisoned Memories: French Newsreels 1939-1944.’ Public lecture, Imperial War Museum, London, 2002.

Other
Initiated, co-organized and presented a paper at ‘Liberty and its Histories: a Symposium with Quentin Skinner’, Lancaster University, 11 November 2010. (Quentin_Skinner_Poster_2010.pdf)

Initiated and co-organized two-day workshop on Text-mining in the Digital Humanities: The Interface between Conceptual History, Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics, Lancaster University, 13-14 May 2010 (http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/events/chcdacl2010/).

Credited in Vol. IV of the new Pléiade edition of Camus’s Œuvres complètes (Gallimard, 2008) with having brought to light several previously uncollected Camus articles. I have since identified a number of additional Camus texts not included in the Œuvres complètes. I am currently preparing these for (re)publication.

Initiated, researched and co-programmed three seasons of over fifty films on the Occupation, Resistance and French wars of decolonization (Indochina, Algeria) at the Arts Picture House Cinema, Cambridge (2001-3).

Research

Research Interests

Albert Camus (esp. political writings)
French discourses on Algeria and the Mediterranean
The discursive construction of group, regional and national identity
Interwar French intellectual debates on culture and the East/West question
The theory and methodology of intellectual history and political discourse analysis

Research Projects

2008-9: 0.5 Post-Doctoral Research Assistant to Professor Christopher Williams on €1.6 million EU-funded FP6 project ‘Society and Lifestyles: Towards Enhancing Social Harmonization through Knowledge of Subcultural Communities’, involving 15 partner institutions in 10 countries (see http://sal.vdu.lt/).

External

Affiliations

Member of the Société des Études Camusiennes (2003-)
Book and CD reviewer for Songlines world music magazine (1998-)
Freelance editor for Rough Guides Reference (esp. popular music)