Professor Celia Britton FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Emeritus Fellow
- Year elected
- 2000
- Year of death
- 2024
- Subjects
- Literature, Modern languages
Summary
Celia Britton is currently an Emeritus Professor at University College London (www.ucl.ac.uk/selcs). Previously she taught at KCL, Reading University and Aberdeen University. For about the first twenty years of her career she specialized in the avant-garde French novel of Nathalie Sarraute, Claude Simon, Michel Butor, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Marguerite Duras; she also published a number of articles on French cinema and literary theory and poststructuralism. Subsequently she has worked mainly on French Caribbean literature, in particular the novels and essays of Edouard Glissant, but also Maryse Condé and other writers from Martinique and Guadeloupe. She is also interested more generally in postcolonial theory, and in 2002 published a book on the influence of Freudianism in French Caribbean thought.
Last post
Emeritus Professor of French, University College London
Past appointments
University College London Emeritus Professor of French, University College London
2003 -
University of Aberdeen Carnegie Professor of French
1991 - 2002
University of Reading Lecturer in French
1974 - 1991
King's College London University of London Lecturer in French
1972 - 1974
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Maria Cristina Fumagalli
The literatures, cultures and visual arts of the Caribbean and its diasporas in a global context.
Professor Peter Boxall
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.
Professor Judith Butler FBA
Feminist and queer theory, focusing on gender, sexuality and the psychosocial formation of the subject, moral and social philosophy, literary theory, and 19th and 20th century European philosophy
