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Kate Hodgson is a Lecturer in the Department of French at University College Cork (UCC), specializing in Francophone Postcolonial Studies and Slavery Studies. She has held academic positions at the University of Liverpool as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and contributed to the EU-funded EURESCL project at the University of Hull and CNRS Paris. Her academic credentials include a PhD from University College London, a Master's from Sorbonne Paris Nord, and an MA from the University of Cambridge.
Dr. Hodgson co-led UCC's Memory, Commemoration and Uses of the Past research cluster within the Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures (CASiLaC), culminating in an international conference on material culture and memory (2018) and the edited volume Memory, Mobility and Material Culture (Routledge, 2022). Her research explores historical memory, cultural heritage, and uses of the past in the Francophone Caribbean (particularly Haiti) and the wider French Atlantic world.
Her publications span anti-slavery legislation, graphic literature, and revolutionary politics, with a focus on memory in post-slavery societies. Funded projects include the Fragments: Migrants and Material Memory grant from the Irish Research Council (2019). She has contributed to the National Maritime Museum's Islands and Empires virtual collection and appeared on RTÉ Radio 1 (2020) discussing transatlantic slavery legacies.
As an academic leader, she coordinates the BSc International Business with Languages program at UCC, teaches modules on Francophone Caribbean Studies and Society and Politics in the Francophone World, and supervises postgraduate research in memory and heritage studies. She serves on UCC committees for teaching, academic development, and community engagement.
