French Research

19th-century literature.

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17th- and 18th-century French and comparative literature; literary representations of the city in the Ancien Regime; economics and literature; Quebecois literature and film in relation to biculturalism; literary theory

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French early modern literature, history and thought.

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The theory of literature from the 18th century to the present; Psychoanalysis; Queer Theory; French queer writing.

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Contemporary French politics; fascism; political corruption; history of the French labour movement; historiography of revolution.

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20th-century French literature; critical theory, particularly Marxist theory and psychoanalysis; visual arts, including modernism, the avant-garde and contemporary art; surrealism.

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Medieval French literature.

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Modern literature, film and thought in French; postcolonial and francophone literature, especially of and about the Maghreb; literary theory; comparative literature; and intellectual and cultural history, particularly in relation to censorship and freedom of expression. Current projects include work on Assia Djebar and notions of the literary; cultural memory and the 'dark continent'; representations and 'echoes' of the Algerian war of independence; and colonial education.

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20th-century French and Francophone literature; post-war literary and critical theory; Bataille; Proust.

+44 (0)20 7848 2547

17th and 18th-century French and comparative literature.

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Old French literature; medieval Occitan literature; textual criticism (editing medieval texts); modern critical theory.

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19th to 21st-century literature; women's writing; critical theory.

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French language curriculum designed teaching; Lacanian psychoanalysis.

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French and European political thought.

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