FLORENCE LOJACONO
I have taught French in France, the West Indies, French Polynesia, Cape Verde, the United States (Middlebury College, Empire State College), Italy, and Switzerland. Currently, I am a tenured Professor of French Studies in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Spain.
At ULPGC, I served for five years as Vice-Dean for International Affairs at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting, and subsequently as Director of Internationalisation and Languages.
I am currently the Director of the Lifelong Learning Center.
Education:
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Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Haute-Alsace University, France
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DEA in Philosophy of Education, under the direction of Professor Olivier Reboul, University of Strasbourg, France
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Master’s in Philosophy, under the direction of Professor Jean-Luc Nancy, University of Strasbourg, France
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B.A. in Philosophy, University of Strasbourg, France
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B.A. in French Linguistics and Phonetics, University of Strasbourg, France
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B.A. in Italian, University of Franche-Comté, France
RESEARCH INTERESTS
The main characteristic of my research is that my themes are deeply interconnected (literature and philosophy), and my approach resists drawing artificial boundaries.
LITERATURE (XX)
My work in insular literature deals mainly with authors as J.G. Ballard (Concrete Island), René Barjavel (Le Grand Secret), Boileau-Barcejac (L'Île), Julieta Campos (El miedo de perder a Eurídice), Marc Chadourne (Vasco), Julio Cortázar (La Isla a Mediodía), Umberto Eco (L'Isola del giorno prima), Romain Gary (La Tête Coupable), Jean Giraudoux (Suzanne et le Pacifique), Michel Houellebecq (La Possibilité d'une Île), Aldous Huxley (Island), J.M.G. Le Clézio (Le Chercheur d'or, Voyage à Rodrigues, La Quarantaine), David Lodge (Paradise News), Jacques Perry (L'Île d'un autre), Jean Reverzy (Le Passage), Miquel Ángel Riera (Illa Flaubert), Georges Simenon (Long cours, Touriste de bananes, Ceux de la soif) and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (Los Mares del Sur).
The analytical concepts I employ come, among others, from the work of Albert Camus, Roger Caillois, Mircea Eliade, Jean-Paul Engélibert, Éric Fougère, Gérard Genette, René Girard, Søren Kierkegaard, Jean-Michel Racault and Jean-Didier Urbain.
PHILOSOPHY
My philosophical research in education and is drawn on the work of Alain, Gaston Bachelard, Jean-Paul Briguelli, Paul Boghossian, José Antonio Bowen, Michel Desmurget, Célestin Freinet, René Girard, Georges Gusdorf, Eugène Ionesco, Ivan Illich, Salman Kahn, Thomas Kuhn (paradigm shift), Liliane Lurçat, Jean-Claude Michéa, Jean-Claude Milner, Emmanuel Mounier, Parker Palmer, Charles Péguy, Olivier Reboul, Robert Redeker, Jacqueline de Romilly and Simone Weil,
In the area of the philosophy of technology, in addition to the previously mentioned authors, I have also drawn on the work of Günther Anders, Hannah Arendt, Jean Baudrillard, Julien Benda, Georges Bernanos, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Albert Camus, Pierre Cassou-Noguès, Guy Debord, Jacques Ellul, Samuel Fitoussi, Jean-François Fogel, Ivan Illich, Christopher Lasch, Edgar Morin (systems theory and complexity), Bruno Patino, Karl Popper and Michel Serres.