Academic & Teaching staff

Dr Honor Aldred

Lecturer and UG Programme Manager for French

Dr Honor Aldred

0113 343 3476

Biography

Honor graduated from the University of Sheffield in 1976. After gaining a PGCE, she taught for some years in primary, secondary and further education. For part of that time, she also worked as a free-lance translator, and was awarded a Diploma in Translation from the Institute of Linguists in 1990. She later returned to the University of Sheffield to study part-time for my PhD investigating the use of humour in the poetry of Clément Marot. She joined the Department of French at Leeds University in 2005.

Current Teaching

  • Core language courses at all UG levels
  • L2 The Short Form in French and Francophone Literature (FREN2290/2295): the Renaissance and Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron
  • L3 module 'Obscenity, Jokes and Disguise in 16th Century France (FREN3590)
  • L3 Bilingual Liaison Interpreting (FREN3070)
  • L3 Theory and Practice in French>English Translation (FREN3770
  • MA in Applied Translation Studies (French-English Specialised Translation)

Administration

Departmental Director of Learning and Teaching

Publications

Her main interests are focussed on the Renaissance period, with particular interests in satirical writing and comic theory. Her publications include:

  • 'Clément Marot's children's verses: the marriage of metre and audience', French Studies Bulletin, 89 (Winter 2003), 4-7
  • 'From Bonds of Rhétorique to Vehicle for Eloquence: Clément Marot's Petite Epistre au Roy', French Studies Bulletin, 79 (Summer 2001), 2-4
  •  The Comic Genius of Clément Marot: The Function of Humor in his Poetry (Lampeter, 2009)