Viviane Blanchard joined King’s College London Language Centre in 2013 as a Lecturer in French Language Education. She holds a BA in Modern Languages from Université Jean Moulin Lyon III (1993), an MA in Modern Languages from the University of Surrey (1994), and a BA in History of Art from Birkbeck University (2010).

Her interest in sound art and gender studies grew out of her work in art history, leading her to pursue doctoral research on documentaires radiophoniques de création, a contemporary, predominantly female francophone practice. Her research explored its connections to the poetic work of French writers associated with écriture féminine.

Viviane’s academic interests include the use of sound as a creative medium for teaching and learning. She has been developing innovative classroom practices that integrate embodied listening, writing, visual arts, and radiophonic creations to encourage engagement with cultures and narratives that challenge mainstream norms.

She is co-founder of Coup de FLE, a collective that promotes creative language pedagogy rooted in contemporary culture, community engagement, and social causes. She is also an active member of UK CREATE (Creativity, Research & Education: Alliance for Translingual Expression), an inter-university network supporting innovation in language education.

Research, Scholarly projects and Academic Awards

As part of her AEP scholarly practice, she is currently collaborating on a creative pedagogical platform, Coup de FLE, with colleagues at King's Language Centre. She continues to be fully involved in implementing the Journaling for Life project led by Amelie Boubaker across the teams at the LC. This work complements her engagement with the UK CREATE network, promoting creative writing in French in higher education in the UK. Her future projects and interests include the development of zines as experiential tools for language teaching, learning, and assessment, and recreating the language lab experience in the classroom using advanced/AI technologies.