Elected 1998
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
The history of the novel; the relation between aesthetics and politics in modern and contemporary literature; modernism and its legacies; theories of fictionality and artificial life.
The nineteenth-century French novel, especially Balzac and Flaubert; the work of Roland Barthes; narrative and feminist theory
