Prof Nicki Hitchcott

Professor in French

Director of Research

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 463636

Email

n.hitchcott@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

Room 101

Location

Buchanan

Office hours

On research leave in Semester 2 2019-2020

Biography

Professor Nicki Hitchcott joined St Andrews in October 2016, having held a personal chair at the University of Nottingham. She attended a comprehensive school before studying for her BA and PhD at UCL, and was the first person in her family to go to university.

Teaching

Honours modules: FR4161 Antillean Identities; FR4183 African Francophone Fiction.

Subhonours modules: FR2204 French Civilisation; CO1002 Staging the Political; CO3020 Literature and Cultural Memory; CO4003 Issues in Cultural Studies.

Postgraduate courses: MLitt Postcolonial and World Literatures; MSc International Development Practice. 

Research areas

Prof Hitchcott is a specialist in postcolonial literatures in French, particularly fiction from sub-Saharan Africa. Her past research has focused on West African women's writing, migrant fiction and fictional responses to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Her research has been funded by the AHRC, the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust.

From 2015 to 2018, Prof Hitchcott led the AHRC-funded project, Rwandan Stories of Change in partnership with NGO the Aegis Trust and the Genocide Archive of Rwanda. In 2018, she was nominated for the inaugural Wellcome Trust/AHRC Health Humanities Medal in the Category of Best International Research.

Prof Hitchcott has supervised 12 research degrees to completion on various aspects of postcolonial francophone studies, including African philosopy and women's documentary cinema, as well as African and Caribbean literature in French. She warmly welcomes enquiries from students interested in this area.

Selected publications

• After the Genocide in Rwanda: Testimonies of Violence, Change and Reconcilation

  Grayson, H. L. (ed.), Hitchcott, N. (ed.), Blackie, L. E. R. (ed.) & Joseph, S. (ed.), 2019, IB Tauris.

  Research output: Book/Report ? Book

• Gender-based violence in Monique Ilboudo's fiction

  Hitchcott, N., 1 Aug 2019, Art from Trauma: Genocide and Healing Beyond Rwanda. Gallimore, R. B. & Herndon, G. (eds.). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, p. 143-159

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter (peer-reviewed)

• Rwanda Since 1994: Stories of Change

  Grayson, H. L. (ed.) & Hitchcott, N. (ed.), 17 May 2019, Liverpool University Press.

  Research output: Book/Report ? Book

• The (un)believable truth about Rwanda

  Hitchcott, N., Jul 2019, In : Australian Journal of French Studies. 56, 2, p. 199-215

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• "I am Rwandan": unity and reconciliation in post-genocide Rwanda

  Blackie, L. E. R. & Hitchcott, N., 20 Jun 2018, In : Genocide Studies and Prevention. 12, 1, p. 24-37 5.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Intimate enemies: representations of perpetrators in literary responses to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda

  Hitchcott, N., 2018, Perpetrating Selves: Doing Violence, Performing Identity. Bielby, C. & Stevenson Murer, J. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 155-176

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter

• Distinguishing post-traumatic growth from psychological adjustment among Rwandan genocide survivors

  Blackie, L. E. R., Jayawickreme, E., Hitchcott, N. & Joseph, S., 2017, Varieties of Virtue Ethics. Carr, D., Arthur, J. & Kristjánsson, K. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 299-317

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter

• Looking for post-traumatic growth in perpetrators of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda: a discussion of theoretical and ethical issues

  Blackie, L. E. R., Hitchcott, N. & Joseph, S., 12 Dec 2017, In : Journal of Perpetrator Research. 1, 1, p. 64-84

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Visions of civil war and genocide in fiction from Rwanda

  Hitchcott, N., 2017, In : Research in African Literatures. 48, 2, p. 152-165

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• ?More than just a genocide country?: recuperating Rwanda in the writings of Scholastique Mukasonga

  Hitchcott, N., 4 Dec 2017, In : Journal of Romance Studies. 17, 2, p. 127-149 23 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

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