NUI Galway, French, Staff

Email:	ruadhan.cookenuigalway.ie
Phone:	353 (0)91 493398
Fax:	353 (0)91 494508
Office Location:	Room 319, Top Floor, Arts Millennium Buildin

Biography

Ruadhán Cooke – BA, MA, LLB, DEA (Sorbonne) – University Teacher  

Ruadhán Cooke is a University Teacher in French at the National University of Ireland Galway and is the coordinator of the language component of the B.Comm. International (French) degree programme.

He is a triple graduate of UCG / NUIG with a First Class Honours M.A. in French and has also obtained a Diplôme d’Études Approfondies from the Centre International d’Études Francophones, Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne. He is currently working on a Ph.D. project on the sports journalism of Antoine Blondin.

Other activity includes being the area coordinator for the Certificate and Diploma exams in French for Specific Purposes of the Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Paris and academic supervisor of the Erasmus / Socrates year abroad in 8 partner institutions in France.

He is involved in a number of University committees with a special interest in NUI Galway Boat Club, both as a member of the coaching panel and Cox of the crew which won the Senior Men’s Eight Championship of Ireland in 2012.

Teaching Areas

• French for business purposes
• Current affairs and contemporary issues in France and the wider French-speaking world
• French Language (translation, interpretation)

Research Interests

• Literature and sport / Journalism and sport
• The Tour de France
• The work of Antoine Blondin
• La Francophonie / Francophone literature and civilisation

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