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
Sections: Modern Languages, Literatures and other Media from 1830
Website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/modernlanguages/people/lh

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 Robin Milner-Gulland FBA

Russia - modern literature (particularly 20th c. poetry); medieval and modern Russian culture, language, history, art and architecture; Byzantine culture; aspects of Sussex archaeology

Professor Dame Marina Warner FBA

History; historical studies of language and literature; English language and literature

Professor Andrew J. Webber FBA

Modern German and comparative textual and visual culture; film and screen studies, urban studies, cultural theory, gender and sexuality studies, psychoanalytic studies and digital humanities

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