Professor Ann Jefferson FBA

French Language and Literature Western Europe France
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2004
Subjects
Literature, Modern languages

Current post

Emeritus Professor of French, University of Oxford; Emeritus Fellow, New College, Oxford

Past appointments

New College University of Oxford Emeritus Professor of French, University of Oxford; Emeritus Fellow

2015 -

University of Oxford Professor of French Literature

2006 -

University of Oxford CUF Lecturer in French, Faculty of Modern Languages

1987 - 2006

New College University of Oxford Professor of French, Oxford University, and Fellow and Tutor in French, New College, Oxford

1987 - 2015

New College University of Oxford Fellow and Tutor in French

1987 -

New College University of Oxford Professor of French, Oxford University, and Fellow and Tutor in French, New College, Oxford

1987 -

Publications

Genius in France: An Idea and its Uses 2015

Biography and the Question of Literature in France 2007 (forthcoming)

Nathalie Sarraute, Fiction and Theory: Questions of Difference 2000

Reading Realism in Stendhal 1988

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Cultural and political history, literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, translation, with a particular focus on postcolonial theory

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English and American literature; cultural anthropology; media history of writing and reading; individual, collective and cultural memory, with special emphasis on Holocaust, trauma and the construction of national narratives

Aleida Assmann FBA

Professor Toril Moi FBA

Feminism and feminist theory, and women writers; literary theory; literature and philosophy; 19th and 20th century European literature; Simone de Beauvoir; Henrik Ibsen; Wittgenstein, Austin and Cavell and literary studies

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