Dr Michaël Abecassis

Dr Michaël Abecassis (DEA Grenoble; D.Lang St Andrews) is a Senior Instructor in French and a College Lecturer at the University of Oxford.
He has published widely on French Linguistics and Cinema.  His publications include: The Representation of Parisian Speech in the Cinema of the 1930s (Peter Lang, 2005);  Le français parlé au XXIème siècle, in two volumes (L’Harmattan, 2008) with Laure Ayosso and Elodie Vialleton;  Les Voix des Français, in two volumes (Peter Lang, 2010) with Gudrun Ledegen.

             (Michael Abecassis by Igor Bratusek, 1999 >>)

Academic Career:

D.Lang from the University of St Andrews in 2000, in the field of language variation and change in French, concentrating on the Parisian vernacular of 1930s French cinema.
Commenced tutoring French in 1988 in the French Department of Dundee University, and subsequently employed by several British universities (Abertay, Glasgow, Nottingham, Edinburgh, St Andrews, OxfordBrookes).  In 1999, Dr Abecassis was appointed both as French Instructor (working mostly in Oxford Language Teaching Centre), and as College Lecturer at the University of Oxford (Christ Church, University, and Wadham Colleges).

Dr Abecassis has collaborated, over more than 12 years, in the teaching of courses including Linguistics, EuropeanCinema and Visual Culture, and is a member of the editorial board of several linguistic and cinema journals and film review editor for The Journal of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia (ACME).  Dr Abecassis's high involvement with the administration, coordination and organization of language teaching was acknowledged by the Faculty (withtwo separate teaching awards, and a Merit Award).  He is the organiser of the internationalconferences (in the Taylor Institution at the University of Oxford) for the promotion of French Language and Cinema as part of Le Cinéma et la Culture française en fête.

Selected bibliography:

1.  Publications : Monographs

 

(2005) The Representation of Parisian Speech in the Cinema of the 1930s (Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, Peter Lang, Modern French Identities vol. 33, Edited by Dr Peter Collier).

2.  Publications : Articles in Peer-reviewed Journals

(2012)  “An interview with Luce Vigo” in Film International.
(2011)  “Iranian War Cinema: Between Reality and Fiction” in Iranian Studies: Journal of the International Society for Iranian Studies, vol. 44:3, pp.387-394.
(2009)  “An interview with Iranian film director Khosrow Sinai” in Bright Lights Film Journal: http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/64/64sinaiiv.html
(2008)  “The ideology of the perfect dictionary: how efficient can a dictionary be?” in Lexikos, 18, pp. 1-14.

3.  Publications : Chapters in Books

(2015)  “Nathalie Baye” “Francis Blanche” “Serge Reggiani” and “Jacques Weber” portraits in French Cinema in Close-up, Abecassis Michaël and Block Marcelline, eds., (Dublin: Phaeton).
(2012)  “Alain Rey et la perfide Albion : influences outre-Manche et représentations lexicographiques”, Actes du Colloque de Rouen en honneur à Alain Rey (tbp: Presses universitaires de Rouen).
(2012)  “Language and war symbols in the films of Hatamikia” in Visual Representations of Iran (London, New York: I.B. Tauris).
(2011)  “El universo de Jean Painlevé: un mundo acuático entre la realidad y la ficción” in L. Rubiales and M. Antonio Díaz Gito (eds.), Homo sympatheticus. El sentido de la naturaleza en la cultura del hombre, (Bern - Berlin - Bruxelles - Frankfurt am Main - New York - Oxford - Wien: Peter Lang) pp. 19-32.
(2010)  “The voices of pre-war French cinema: from polyphony towards plurilingualism” in V. Berger, K. Ille, and M. Komory, Plurilinguism in cinema: cultural contact and migration in France, Italy, Spain and Portugal, pp.33-47.

4.  Publications as Editor

(2015)  Abecassis Michaël with Block Marcelline, eds., French Cinema in Close-up: La Vie d’un acteur pour moi (Dublin: Phaeton).
(2015)  De la genèse de la langue à Internet – variations dans les formes, les modalités et les langues en contact, ed., with Gudrun Ledegen (Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter Lang), Modern French Identities, volume 118.
(2013)  Comme on nous parle : culture et média francophones (with Gudrun Ledegen) (Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter Lang, Modern French Identities, also edited by Dr Peter Collier).
(2011)  Abecassis Michaël, Ledegen Gudrun, et Zouaoui Karen, eds, La Francophonie ou l’éloge de la diversité, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
(2010)  Abecassis Michaël et Ledegen Gudrun, eds., Les Voix du français: Usages et Représentations : à travers l’histoire, l’école et la presse (Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang, Modern French Identities vol. 93, also edited by Dr Peter Collier).
(2010)  Abecassis Michaël et Ledegen Gudrun, eds., Les Voix du français: Usages et Représentations : en parlant, en écrivant (Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang, Modern French Identities vol. 94, Edited by Dr Peter Collier).
(2008)  Abecassis Michaël, Ayosso Laure, et Vialleton Elodie, eds., Le Français parlé au XXIème siècle : Normes et variations , 2 volumes, (Paris, L’harmattan).

5.  Awards & Promotion of French Culture and Cinema in Oxford

June 2006:  Teaching Award Recognizing and Rewarding Excellence in Teaching (The University of Oxford) for individual work.
Teaching Award Recognizing and Rewarding Excellence in Teaching (The University of Oxford) for team work.

November 2009:  Merit Award for Research Staff Promotion of French Culture and Cinema in Oxford —

        Cinéma et culture française à Oxford 
        Presented at the Taylor Institution Library, University of Oxford
November 2013:  Organiser of ‘Une soirée avec Yves Duteil : A discussion with the French singer.’
June 2013:  Organiser of ‘Une soirée avec Francis Cabrel : A discussion with the French singer.’
March 2013:  Organiser of ‘Une soirée avec Eddy Mitchell : A discussion with the French actor and singer.’
November 2012:  Organiser of ‘Une soirée avec François Morel : A discussion with the French actor.’
October 2012:  Organiser of ‘Une soirée avec Christian Clavier : A discussion with the French actor.’
June 2012:  Organiser of ‘Une soirée avec Ariane Ascaride : A discussion with the French actress.’ [image ^]
February 2012:  Organiser of ‘Une soirée avec Thierry Lhermitte : A discussion with the French actor.’ [>]
November 2011:  Organiser of ‘Une soirée avec Maxime Le Forestier : A discussion with the French singer.’
May 2011:  Organiser of ‘Seul en scène avec Jacques Weber : A discussion with French actor Jacques Weber’
May 2010:  Organiser of the ‘Journée Jean-Claude Dreyfus.’ [image >]
December 2010:  Organiser of ‘Comme on nous parle : culture et média.’
October 2009:  Organiser of  ‘La Francophonie ou l’éloge de la diversité.’
February 2009:  Organiser of the lecture and workshop with Patrice Leconte.
September 2008:  Colloque de L’AFLS: ‘Les Voix du français: Usages et representations.’     

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