Professor Marian Hobson FBA

History, French Language and Literature
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1999
Subjects
Literature, Modern languages

Current post

Emerita Professor of French, Queen Mary University of London

Past appointments

Queen Mary University of London Professor of French

1992 -

Trinity College University of Cambridge Fellow

1977 - 1992

University of Geneva University Lecturer

1973 - 1976

British Academy appointments

Member of Council

Publications

The object of art: the theory of illusion in 18th century France

Marian Hobson - Published in 1982

Jacques Derrida: opening lines

Marian Hobson - Published in 1998

Diderot, Lettre sur les aveugles, lettres sur les sourds et muets

Marian Hobson - Published in 2000 by Flammarion

Diderot and Rousseau: Networks of Enlightenment

Marian Hobson - Published in 2011 by Oxford, SVEC

Denis Diderot's Rameau's Nephew

Edited by Marian Hobson, translated by Kate E. Tunstall, and Caroline Warman - Published in 2016

Multimedia edition

Other Fellows of the British Academy

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

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Professor Henry Woudhuysen FBA

English literature of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, especially Sir Philip Sidney, Shakespeare, and Samuel Johnson; post-medieval palaeography; bibliography and the history of the book

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Professor Angela McRobbie FBA

Sociology of Culture, Young Women and Mass Media, Feminist Theory, Gender and Popular Culture, British Fashion Industry, Creative Economy, Fashion Start Ups and Micro-enterprises in the Urban Environment

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