Professor Leslie Hill FBA

French Language and Literature Critical and Cultural Theory - Modern Languages Textual Studies Film and Media History Philosophy
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2003
Subjects
Literature, Modern languages

Current post

Emeritus Professor of French Studies, University of Warwick

Past appointments

University of Warwick Emeritus Professor of French Studies

2014 -

University of Warwick Professor of French Studies

1998 - 2014

Selwyn College University of Cambridge Research Fellow in French

1974 - 1976

Publications

Marguerite Duras: Apocalyptic Desires 1993

The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Derrida 2007

Radical Indecision: Barthes, Blanchot, Derrida, and the Future of Criticism 2010

Maurice Blanchot and Fragmentary Writing: A Change of Epoch 2012

Beckett's Fiction: In Different Words 1990

Blanchot: Extreme Contemporary 1997

Bataille, Klossowski, Blanchot: Writing at the Limit 2001

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Esther Leslie FBA

Aesthetics in combination with politics; Marxism and critical theory, especially the work of Walter Benjamin and TW Adorno; the poetics of science and technology; animation; digital culture and the sensorium

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Professor Roderick Beaton FBA

Greek literature, history, and culture from the twelfth century to the present; classical reception in the formation of late medieval and modern Greek identity; the Greek novel since antiquity

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Professor Sharon Monteith FBA

American literature, history and culture encompassing film, media and memory, with particular focus on activism and social justice in the U.S. South, the civil rights movement and African American freedom struggle

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