Patrick Crowley

Dr Patrick Crowley teaches francophone literatures and cultures at University College Cork. His primary focus is on form, its construction and its destabilization, particularly within colonial and postcolonial contexts and with a special focus on contemporary Algerian cultural production.  He is a member of the COST Action management committee for CA20105 – Slow Memory: Transformative Practices for Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change (SlowMemo). His research on culture and post-colonial conflict in Algeria benefitted from a Government of Ireland Senior Research Fellowship in 2011 leading to research visits to Algeria and a range of international publications and invitations (Oxford, Cambridge, Columbia University). This resulted in partnerships in the UK leading to his role as a project partner in the British Academy funded project led by Dr Jessica Northey on North-South knowledge exchange resulting in an ECR and Doctoral Summer School on academic writing and publishing at University Mohamed Sedik Ben Yahia, Jijel, Algeria in 2019. He serves on the executive committees of ADEFFI (Irish French Studies), the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies (UK) and the Society for French Studies (UK). He was General Editor of the Irish Journal of French Studies which he transitioned to an on-line journal and served on the UNESCO Working Group set up to advise on the implementation of decision 180 EX/58 Rev 2. He sits on five Advisory Boards and was Chair of the R. Gapper Book Prize Jury (UK and Ireland) until 2023. His latest project, with Carlos Garrido Castellano, is a thematic issue of Interventions titled ‘The Afterlives of Anticolonial Aesthetics’ (2022). Other work includes a range of edited and co-edited volumes including: Algeria: Nation, Culture and Transnationalism 1988-2015 (Liverpool University Press, 2017), a thematic issue of Studies in Travel Writing titled ‘Travel, Colonialism and Encounters with the Maghreb: Algeria’ (also in 2017). With Megan MacDonald, he co-edited a special issue of Contemporary French and Francophone Studies titled ‘The Contemporary Roman Maghrébin: Aesthetics, Politics, Production 2000-2015’ (2016). He published two co-edited volumes in 2011: Mediterranean Travels and Postcolonial Poetics: Genre and Form. His scholarly edition of L’Exotisme: la littérature coloniale (by Louis Cario and Charles Régismanset, [1911]) was published in 2016. In recognition of his contribution to teaching and research, he was awarded the title of Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French Government.