Senior Lecturer
Member of MUSEA within RAMI (“Relations à l’Autre, Mémoire, Identité”)
Research interests
- Irish Studies
- Museums Studies
- History and Memory
- Political uses of history
- Cultural heritage in Northern Ireland
- The Northern Irish conflict
Period studied
Mostly 20th-21st centuries
Studies
- M.A. in Cultural Heritage and Museums Studies, Ulster University, 2012.
- Ph.D. in Irish Studies, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2004.
- DEA in Irish Studies, Université de Caen, 1998.
- Agrégée d’anglais, 1997.
- B.A. and M.A in English, Université Paris 7, 1992-1996.
Career
- Senior Lecturer in Irish Studies, Department of English Studies, Aix-Marseille Université, since 2012.
- Senior Lecturer in British Studies, Applied Languages Department, Université Paris 13, 2006-2012.
- ATER, English Department, Université Cergy-Pontoise, 2005-2006.
- ATER, English Department, Université Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2000-2005.
- Lectrice, French Department, University College Dublin, 1998-2000.
- French Assistant, Ralph Allen School, Bath, 1995-1996.
Linda Pillière and Karine Bigand (eds) – 2022
Karine Bigand, Jean Kempf, Bernard Lesaing et Peter McCavana (eds.) – Faces & Places – Northern Ireland 1975-2020 – ISBN :…
OUVRAGES ET RAPPORTS / BOOKS AND REPORTS
- Bigand Karine, Can the Walk be Done, not just the Talk? Evaluation of the Response to the “Everyday Objects Transformed by the Conflict” exhibition, Belfast: Healing Through Remembering, 2013. Disponible en ligne http://web-previews.com/healingthroughremembering/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/HTR_-_Evaluation_of_Response_to_EOE.pdf
- Bigand, Karine, Lesaing, Bernard, Kempf, Jean et McCavana, Peter. Faces and Places, Northern Ireland, 1975-2020. Rennes: Editions de Juillet, 2020.
CHAPITRES D’OUVRAGES / BOOK CHAPTERS
- Bigand, Karine, « Mémoire du soulèvement irlandais de 1641 et constructions identitaires dans les îles Britanniques », in David El-Kenz and François-Xavier Nérard (dir.), Commémorer les victimes en Europe: XVIe-XXIe siècles, Seyssel: Champ-Vallon, 2011, pp. 33-46.
- Bigand, Karine, « Statut, influences et motivations de l’élite gaélique d’Ulster pendant l’insurrection de 1641 », in Anne-Catherine Lobo, Compositions et recompositions du lien social en Irlande, Caen : Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2012, pp. 31-50.
- Bigand, Karine, “Ireland and the end of the Empire”, in Richard Davis (ed.), British Decolonisation, 1918-1984, Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, pp. 9-24.
- Bigand, Karine, “The Ulster American Folk Park and Heritage Diversity in Northern Ireland”, in Laurence Gouriévidis (dir.), Museums and Migration. History, Memory and Politics, London and NY: Routledge, 2014, pp. 138-52.
- Bigand, Karine, « Représentation du conflit dans les musées en Irlande du Nord : stratégies d’exposition », in Iñaki Arrieta (dir.), Lugares de Memoria Traumática, Bilbao: Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco, 2016, pp. 49-70.
- Bigand, Karine, “Representing loyalist paramilitary heritage in non-museum exhibitions – aims, practices and challenges”, in Elizabeth Crooke and Tom Maguire (eds), Heritage after Conflict: Northern Ireland, London and NY : Routledge, 2018, pp. 66-83. https://www.routledge.com/Heritage-after-Conflict-Northern-Ireland/Crooke-Maguire/p/book/9780815386360
- Bigand, Karine, “A New Order in Post-conflict Northern Ireland – The Museum of Orange Heritage”, in Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille and Geraldine Vaughan (eds), Anti-Catholicism in Britain and Ireland, 1600–2000. Practices, Representations and Ideas, Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700–2000 Series, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp. 255-272. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030428815
- Bigand, Karine and Pillière, Linda (eds), “Introduction”, Memory and Identity: Ghosts of the Past in the English-speaking World, London: Routledge, 2022. https://www.routledge.com/Memory-and-Identity-Ghosts-of-the-Past-in-the-English-speaking-World/Pilliere-Bigand/p/book/9781032012841
ARTICLES DANS DES REVUES A COMITE DE LECTURE / ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
- Bigand, Karine, “French Historiography of the English Revolution under the Restoration – A National or cross-Channel dialogue?”, European Journal of English Studies, vol. 14-3 (décembre 2010), 249-261.
- Bigand, Karine, “How is Ulster’s history represented in Northern Ireland’s national museums ? The cases of the Ulster Folk Museum and the Ulster Museum”, E-REA, numéro Hors-Série en hommage à François Poirier, 8.3, juin 2011. Texte disponible en ligne : http://journals.openedition.org/erea/1769
- Bigand, Karine, “Peace in History and Heritage. Some thoughts on a Museum of Peace in Northern Ireland”, E-REA, numéro 10.1 (décembre 2012). Texte disponible en ligne : http://journals.openedition.org/erea/2825
- Bigand, Karine, « Marguerite Mespoulet et Madeleine Mignon en Irlande pour les Archives de la Planète : influences hors champ », Revue LISA/LISA e-journal, vol. XII-n° 3 (2014). Texte disponible en ligne. http://journals.openedition.org/lisa/5943
- Bigand, Karine, “The Representation of Irish affairs in La Gazette and in Nouvelles Ordinaires de Londres, 1649-1652”, E-REA 11.2 (juillet 2014). Texte disponible en ligne http://journals.openedition.org/erea/3664
- Bigand, Karine, “The Role of Museums in Dealing with the Legacy of the Troubles in Northern Ireland”, RISE – Review of Irish Studies in Europe, vol. 1.2, février 2017, pp. 40-53. http://www.imageandnarrative.be/index.php/rise/article/view/1432
- Bigand Karine, « L’Irlande du Nord face au Brexit : un territoire vulnérable », Recherches internationales, N° 109 – avril-juin 2017, pp. 65-82. https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01614940
- Bigand Karine, « Les Élections à l’Assemblée nord-irlandaise de 2016 et 2017 : contextes, résultats, perspectives », Revue Française de civilisation britannique, vol.XXII-4, novembre 2017. http://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/1568. DOI 10.4000/rfcb.1568
- Bigand Karine, Cate Turner and Julieann Campbell, “Engaging visitors and building trust: the Everyday Objects Transformed by the Conflict exhibition: A conversation”, Museum Ireland, vol. 30, 2024, pp. 47-56. https://www.irishmuseums.org/uploads/downloads/publications/Museum-Ireland-2023.pdf
- Bigand, Karine, “The “Northern Ireland: Living with the Troubles” exhibition at the Imperial War Museum: rebalancing voices, authority and engagement”, Études anglaises, “The North of Ireland/Northern Ireland: borders, bodies and communities”, 78.1 (2025): 29-44. https://www.klincksieck.com/livre/9782252048740/etudes-anglaises-n12025
DIRECTION DE NUMEROS DE REVUES / EDITOR OF JOURNAL ISSUES
- Bigand Karine and Barrow Logie (dir.), European Journal of English Studies, Cultural Histories, vol. 14-3, décembre 2010. Co-rédaction de l’introduction. Numéro disponible en ligne: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/neje20/14/3
- Bigand, Karine, Claire Parfait, Rose-May Pham-Dinh, Véronique Bonnet (dir.), E-Rea, Histoires fondatrices, mémoires fluctuantes, vol. 8-3, juin 2011. Co-rédaction de l’introduction. https://journals.openedition.org/erea/1832 Numéro disponible en ligne: https://journals.openedition.org/erea/1739
- Bigand Karine (dir.), “Interactions et transferts entre la France et les îles Britanniques, 1640-1660”, E-Rea, vol. 11-2, juillet 2014. Rédaction de l’introduction. Numéro disponible en ligne https://journals.openedition.org/erea/3616
Only the activities in English are listed here. See website in French for the full list.
- Bigand, Karine, “Thinking Allowed”, BBC Radio 4, about the Orange Order in Northern Ireland, 14 April 2021. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000v2qg
- Bigand, Karine, launch of the exhibition Faces and Places, Northern Ireland, 1975-2020, Ulster Museum (Belfast), 26 October 2021. In connection with the eponymous co-authored book. Exhibition on display from September 2021 to May 2022.
- Bigand, Karine, interview about Faces and Places, Northern Ireland, 1975-2020 with BBC Northern Ireland (22 December 2021) : “Northern Ireland’s changing faces and places four decades apart” https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-59653210