I have taught modern history at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels since 1998 in France, Britain and the USA.
My teaching has largely focussed on the history of Britain and Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth century.
My experience of different academic systems and institutional cultures gave me the opportunity to hone my teaching skills in very different pedagogical contexts. From large lecture courses to single tutorials, I have learned to be a versatile and flexible teacher, capable to adapt to a wide range of audiences and pedagogical settings.
Since 2013 – University of Warwick
Undergraduate courses taught:
– Farewell to arms? War in Modern European History (1815-2015) [Year 1]
– Urban catastrophes. Disasters and urban reconstruction from 1906 to the present [Year 2]
– Research Project – Module convenor [Year 2]
– Special Subject: A comparative history of the First World War, 1912-1923 [Year 3]
– Brussels Residential Module: United in Diversity? A History of Europe since 1945 [Year 2]
– Team-taught modules: The Historian’s Toolkit; Making of the Modern World [Year 1]; A Political History of the Contemporary World [Year 2]
– Shanghai Jiao Tong – Warwick Global Challenge Summer Course: Vulnerabilities, disasters, and resilience in modern port-cities
Postgraduate courses:
– Historical Research: Theory, Skills and Method
Fall 2014 – Yale University
Undergraduate courses taught:
HIST 236Ja – A comparative history of the First World War, 1912-1923
2009-2013 – University of Birmingham (Dept. of History)
Undergraduate courses taught:
“War, Armed Forces, and Society”; “Practising History”; “Group Research”; “Reviewing History”; “Historical Reflections”; Special Subjects: “A Comparative History of the First World War, 1912-1923”; “The British Army on the Western Front”; Optional Unit: “France. From the Popular Front to the Liberation”
* Nominated for Outstanding Personal Tutor Award, 2011-2012*
Postgraduate courses:
“Research Skills”, “Bullets and Billets”, MA in First World War Studies
Guest Lecturer, Europaeum MA Programme in European History, Universities of Leiden, Oxford and Paris I –Sorbonne – February 2010
Visiting Lecturer, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris, Masters Programme (2009-2010) – “A cultural history of contemporary warfare, 20th & 21st centuries.”
2007-2009 – University of Birmingham (Dept. of French Studies)
Undergraduate courses taught:
“Modern France 1 & 2”; “Historical Images of Europe”
Final-Year Modules: Special Subject “Marianne en guerre, 1914-1918. The French experience of the Great War” / “Fascism in Western Europe”; “English – French Translation”
* Nominated for Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2008-2009 *
Postgraduate courses:
“Research Skills”, MA – MPhil Modern European Cultures
Guest Lecturer, Europaeum MA Programme in European History, Universities of Leiden, Oxford and Paris I –Sorbonne – February 2009
2003-2007 – University of Oxford
Courses taught:
General (European) History IV: “Society, Empire, Nation, 1815-1914”; General (World) History XIV (1941-1973); “Origins of the welfare state”
Approaches to History: Max Weber; Historiography (Foreign Texts): Tocqueville; Discipline of History: Comparative History
Further Subject: “A comparative history of the First World War, 1914-1920”; Special Subject: “French literature and the First World War”
1998-2002 – Université Jean-Jaurès Toulouse
Courses taught:
Lectures and classes “Modern European History, 1815-1939”
