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Professor James Williams FBA

A portrait picture of Professor James Williams FBA
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2026
Subjects
Modern languages
Sections
Modern Languages, Literatures and other Media from 1830

Summary

James Williams' research interests include francophone postcolonial studies, particularly West and Central African cinema; post-war French and European film; modern and contemporary French literature; gender and sexuality; migration and diasporic cultures; Holocaust cinema; the archives.

Current post

Royal Holloway, University of London Professor of Modern French Literature and Film

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