Professor Edward J. Hughes FBA

Modern and contemporary French literature; French Algerian literature and culture; the depiction of social and cultural marginality in the modern French novel; sociology and literature; Proust studies

Elected 2019

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2019
Sections: Modern Languages, Literatures and other Media from 1830
Website: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/modern-languages-and-cultures/people/academics/profiles/hughes.html

Current post

Professor of French, Queen Mary University of London

Past appointments

Royal Holloway, University of London Professor of French

2002 - 2006

Royal Holloway, University of London Reader

1998 - 2002

Royal Holloway, University of London Senior Lecturer

1992 - 1998

Royal Holloway, University of London Lecturer

1991 - 1992

Birkbeck, University of London Lecturer in French

1980 - 1991

St Mary’s College of Education, Belfast Lecturer in French

1979 - 1980

Publications

Albert Camus

Edward Hughes - Published in 2015 by Reaktion Books

In collaboration with Chicago University Press

Proust, Class, and Nation

Edward J. Hughes - Published in 2011 by Oxford University Press

The Cambridge Companion to Camus

Edited by Edward J. Hughes - Published in 2007 by Cambridge University Press

Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature: From Loti to Genet

Edward J. Hughes - Published in 2006 by Cambridge University Press

Second edition

Albert Camus, ‘Le Premier Homme’/’La Peste’

Edward J. Hughes - Published in 1995 by of Glasgow French and German Publications

Marcel Proust: A Study in the Quality of Awareness

Edward J. Hughes - Published in 1983 by Cambridge University Press

Lacunary knowledge in Sebald and Proust

Edward J. Hughes - Published in 2014 by Modern Language Review

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Professor Peter France FBA

French Language and Literature

Professor Jim Reed FBA

German, Dutch and Scandanavian Languages and Literatures

Professor Richard Gray FBA

American Literature