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Claire Helena Griffiths is professor of French and francophone studies in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Chester in Great Britain. She was previously senior research fellow in Francophone African studies in the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation and instructor in the Departments of French and Modern Languages at the University of Hull. She has taught courses on the processes of colonisation and decolonisation in the French Empire, the political history of French-speaking Africa, African women’s writing in French, French political art, translation and interpreting.
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- Look at Me What Dont You See Claire Griffiths TEDxSolanaBeach
- Claire griffiths uea creative writing anthology 2009 reading 8 11
- Education and career
- Publications
- Senegal archives
- References
Claire griffiths uea creative writing anthology 2009 reading 8 11
Education and career
Griffiths earned a BA (Hons.) in French and politics from University of Warwick, an M.Phil. in Politics from the University of Bath and a Ph.D. from Hull University, Before beginning her academic research and teaching career, she worked as a trainee translator for the European Commission. On February 27, 2008, Griffiths delivered the Peter Forster Memorial Lecture at University of Hull: Engendering Social Development Policy: A Case of Globalisation or Colonial Revisionism in Francophone Africa?
Publications
Senegal archives
Griffiths directs a project to translate and electronically archive colonial documents from the Senegalese National Archives, particularly documents on African women and girls living under French colonial rule. A principal resource is a series of 18 reports from Denise Moran Savineau to French West Africa Governor General Jules Marcel de Coppet, which the archives project has made freely available in both the original French and in English translation with annotations.