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 Robert S C Gordon FBA

The cultural history, cinema, and literature of modern Italy; Holocaust literature (Primo Levi); postwar memory and culture of the Holocaust

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Professor Derek Attridge FBA

The language of literature and literary theory: Renaissance prosodic experiments, English poetic rhythm, James Joyce and J. M. Coetzee, philosophical approaches to literature.

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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

Sharon Monteith

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