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 Charles Forsdick FBA
Francophone postcolonial studies, particularly postcolonial literature; French colonial history (including Haiti); the transatlantic traffic in enslaved Africans; travel writing and exoticism; translation studies; world literature and graphic fiction
Professor Patricia Waugh FBA
Modern literary studies and intellectual history, with specific interests in the modern and contemporary novel; literature, science and medicine; cultural theory and modernist aesthetics
Professor John Kerrigan FBA
Shakespeare and drama; seventeenth-century Anglophone literature; British and Irish poetry since Yeats
