Research Output per year
Research Output per year
Research output per year
My research explores the work of writers and intellectuals in France, dating from the Belle Époque to the present, mostly though not exclusively in the Catholic tradition. Much of my work on the French Catholic literary and intellectual tradition has drawn on theoretical frames from Charles Taylor, William Cavanaugh and René Girard. My monograph Catholic Literature and Secularisation in France and England 1880-1914 (MUP, 2011) sought to overturn the exoticising of French and English Catholic writings by testing how their variables correlate with many inflections of secularisation theory broadly understood.
Recent research has focused on the contemporary Catholic intellectual Fabrice Hadjadj and a series of publications about him will be forthcoming in the course of 2019-20. In 2019 I began to revisit the writings of Georges Bernanos about whom I have published several book chapters and whose writings for the External Resistance constitute an original and rich field of data for students of Vichy France and the fallout of conflict in Europe.
My current monograph project is provisionally entitled Counter-technologism in France (1920-1945) and seeks to explore a trend among French or Francophone cultural critics who were hostile to the place that technology and la civilisation mécanique acquired in the interwar years. These writers include Jacques Maritain, René Guénon, Nicolai Berdyaev, Jacques Ellul, Simone Weil, Marcel de Corte, Gustave Thibon and Georges Bernanos. A sequel is also planned, following this story from the end of the war up to 1958 and the end of the Fourth Republic.
One further area of activity for me is the impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and what it means for higher education, especially in the humanities.
I welcome inquiries about PhD supervision in any of the following areas:
Room: NX09
Phone: 0121 204 3134
Email: b.sudlow@aston.ac.uk
PhD, University of Reading
Award Date: 30 Jun 2007
MA
Award Date: 31 Jul 2003
BA
Award Date: 31 Jul 1999
External Examiner for International Management and Modern Languages (French), University of Bath
2018 → 2022External Examiner MA in Professional Translation, Newcastle University
2017 → 2020Chair of the Advisory Board for the Quarterdeck Seminar Series
2017 → …External member of the Academic Board
2012 → …Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
Brian Sudlow (Speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Brian Sudlow (Organiser)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Brian Sudlow (Speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Brian Sudlow (Speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Brian Sudlow (Speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
28/03/12
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