Newcastle University

Qualifications

2002: Licence LLCE d'anglais (B.A. in English), 1st class honours and Licence LLCE d'allemand (B.A. in German), 2.1 (Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3 / Classes préparatoires aux Grandes Ecoles)
Sous-admissibilité à l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon.

2003: Maitrise d'Etudes Irlandaises (M.A. in Irish Studies), 1st Class (Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3)

2004: D.E.A. d'Etudes Irlandaises (M.Phil. in Irish Studies), 1st Class (Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3)

2009: PhD on “From Modernity to Ultramodernity – A Socio-Historical Analysis of Secularisation as the Restructuration of Catholic and Political Belief and Practices in France and in Ireland” (Centre for Franco-Irish Studies, Dublin)

Previous Positions

January 2009-August 2010: Lecturer in French Studies, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies, University of the West of England (Bristol)
2008-2009: Lecturer in French, School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies, Dublin City University (Ireland)
2006-2008: Junior Lecturer in English, UFR de Lettres Modernes, Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3 (France)
2004-2005: Lecteur de Français, Department of French, Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)

Research Interests

Religious / political beliefs in France and the impact of secularisation on French identity.

 Translation and the European Union.

Current Work

I am currently working on a pilot project called "Practising Language Teaching in Higher Education" aimed increasing Erasmus Students' employability whilst improving the student experience in the School of Modern Languages.

Undergraduate Teaching

Fre1065 (Module Leader)
Fre1066 (Module Leader)
Fre1071 (Module Leader)

FRE1006 

FRE2061 

FRE4061 Interpreting 

 Postgraduate Teaching

 SML8018 (Module Leader)

SML7001

SML8004

SML8008 

SML8016/8098: Supervision of MA dissertations/projects 

• Penet JC. The French Debate on National Identity: un nouveau souffle pour Marianne ou Marianne à bout de souffle?. In: Sudlow, B, ed. National Identities in France. New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 2012, pp.187-202.
• Penet JC. Laïque et indivisible? Secularisation and the Crisis of Republican identity in Contemporary France. In: Lebrun, B; Lovecy, J, ed. Une et indivisible? Plural Identities in Modern France. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010, pp.65-80.
• Penet JC. The Other from Within. The Catholic Church as the Doppelgänger of French Republican Identity. The Irish Journal of French Studies 2009, (7), 97-118.
• Penet JC. Ultramodernity and the Redefinition of Secularisation as the Restructuration of Belief in Contemporary France and Ireland. In: Bévant, E, Maher, E and O'Brien, E, ed. Issues of Globalisation and Secularisation in France and Ireland. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2009, pp. 163-184.
• Penet JC. Ce téléphone rouge qui nous relie désormais à Dieu. Sécularisme et définition de la rencontre avec l'au-delà revue et corrigée chez les catholiques en France et en Irlande ultramoderne.. JOFIS, An E-Journal in Franco-Irish Studies 2008, (1), 111-131.
• Penet JC. Nollaigh Shona ou Bonne Année? Pratique catholique et pratique politique en France et en Irlande postmoderne. In: Maher, E, Neville, G and O'Brien, E, ed. Modernity and Postmodernity in a Franco-Irish Context. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2008, pp. 207-222.