NUI Galway, French, Staff

Email:	jane.conroynuigalway.ie
Phone:	353 (0)91 49 2260
Fax:	353 (0)91 49 4508
Office Location:	Room 331, Top Floor, Arts Millennium Building

Biography

Jane Conroy holds a personal chair in French at NUIG. She obtained her early degrees in Galway and her doctorate in Paris 4 (Sorbonne).  In 2001 she was granted a Government of Ireland Senior Research Fellowship by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, and in 2005 the Académie Française awarded her its major prize, the Grand Prix de la Francophonie, for her published works in French.  She is a chevalier of the Ordre National du Mérite and a member of the Royal Irish Academy.

Her publications (see list) are mainly in the area of early modern French literature and cultural history, travel writing and cross-cultural exchange from the mid-17th to the mid-19th century. They include Terres tragiques (1999) and, as editor, Cross-cultural travel (2003) and Franco-Irish connections (2009). She is preparing an edition of Le Comte d’Essex by Thomas Corneille (for publication by Garnier in the collection directed by Christopher Gossip), and an edition of Charles-Étienne Coquebert de Montbret’s account of his travels in Ireland (1789–93).  With Dr Daniel Carey (English) she has co-directed projects in two cycles of PRTLI-funded research (2001–05, 2007–11) on travel literature in the Moore Institute, NUIG. In 2008, the current project was awarded further funding by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2008–11). She is Principal Investigator for the Royal Irish Academy's Digital Humanities Observatory and Academy Digital Resources project, also funded under PRTLI4 (2007–11) and until recently was Royal Irish Academy Humanities and Social Sciences Secretary (2005–2010). In NUI, Galway's successful PRTLI5 bid for an Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Research Building, to be ready for occupancy in late 2011, she is named as overall Academic Director.  

Current positions in scientific associations and committees include: Irish correspondent for the Association pour la diffusion de la recherche littéraire ( ADIREL), member of the HEA's Working Group on Foresight in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and of the European Science Foundation's Pool of Reviewers. Ordinary memberships include the Centre de recherches sur la littérature des voyages ( CRLV),  the Society for French Studies, the Society for  Seventeenth-Century French Studies and the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society.


Teaching Areas

• 17th-century French literature and mentalities
• Postromanticism
• Sociolinguistics
• French Media
• French Language

Research Interests

• Travel Writing (1650-1850)
• Translation
• 17th-century French theatre
• Cross-cultural exchange
• Sociolinguistics

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