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Alexandre François - Curriculum Vitae#


PROFESSIONAL
  • 2015– Directeur de Recherches, tenured position, CNRS. Dept LaCiTO (2015-18), dept LaTTiCe (2018–)
  • 2015 – 2018 Head of research unit LaCiTO-CNRS
  • 2015, 2016 Invited scholar, Max-Planck Institut für Menschheitsgeschichte, Jena (Germany)
  • 2012– Honorary Associate Professor, Linguistics. ANU, Canberra
  • 2009 – 2012 Visiting Fellow, Linguistics. ANU, Canberra
  • 2002 – 2015 Chargé de Recherches, tenured. CNRS-LaCiTO, Paris
  • 1999 – 2002 Dept lecturer, Linguistics, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle

EDUCATION
  • 2014 Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, INALCO, Paris
  • 2001 PhD dissertation, Linguistics, Univ. Paris-IV Sorbonne. (Domain: Oceanic linguistics.)
  • 1994 - 1995 Agrégation de Grammaire, national rank #1.
  • 1992 - 1994 Licence (BA) & Masters in Classical languages, Paris-IV Sorbonne
  • 1992 - 1994 Licence (BA), Linguistics (elective: African linguistics) + MA thesis, Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle
  • 1992 - 1998 École Normale Supérieure (4 years), Classics section, national rank #4

HONOURS AND AWARDS
  • 2014 “Prime d’Encadrement Doctoral et de Recherche”, CNRS
  • 2004 “Médaille de Bronze” of CNRS, Linguistics section

GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS
  • 2017–18 PI, “Legacy Material Grants”, ELDP, SOAS, London. “Legacy audio video archival in 14 languages of the world”
  • 2004–07 PI, ANR grant for Junior Researchers (80 k€). Verbal art and ethnomusicology in Vanuatu
  • 1999-2002 Allocation de Recherches (PhD grant, Ministère de la Recherche), coupled with tutoring and lecturing in linguistics, at Université Paris-3 Sorbonne nouvelle

TEACHING

Classes taught in various universities of Paris; at ANU, Canberra (2011); at LSA summer institute, Boulder (2011); at various Summer schools.

COMMUNITY SERVICE
  • Convenor of 7 research groups since 2010 (Paris; Canberra)
  • Main convenor of the Summer school on Typology, CNRS, 2014
  • Main convenor of several international conferences: ICAL11 (2009, Paris); Vanuatu languages (2011, Canberra); LACITO (2016, Paris); APLL9 (2017, Paris)
  • Member of Scientific Committees for 12 international conferences since 2011
  • Member of Editorial advisory boards for 3 journals or series (“Studies in Diversity Linguistics” (LangSci Press); Open Linguistics; Oceanic Linguistics)

LINGUISTIC FIELDWORK
  • In Vanuatu: 1997–2002 : language Mwotlap ; 2003–07: Banks islands (14 lgs); 2005–11: Torres islands (2 lgs)
  • Solomon Islands: 2005–07 Vanikoro (4 languages)

LANGUAGE SUPPORT & REVITALISATION
  • 15 books for educational purposes in several vernacular languages of Vanuatu & Solomons.
  • Online bilingual dictionaries for communities (Mwotlap, Teanu). See http://alex.francois.online.fr/

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