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 Regenia Gagnier FBA

Victorian and modern British literature and culture; geopolitics of language and literature migration; world literature and political economy

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Professor James Williams FBA

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.

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Professor Edward J. Hughes FBA

Modern and contemporary French literature; French Algerian literature and culture; the depiction of social and cultural marginality in the modern French novel; sociology and literature; Proust studies

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