Professor Marian Hobson FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 1999
- Subjects
- Literature, Modern languages
Current post
Emerita Professor of French, Queen Mary University of London
Past appointments
Queen Mary University of London Professor of French
1992 -
Trinity College University of Cambridge Fellow
1977 - 1992
University of Geneva University Lecturer
1973 - 1976
British Academy appointments
Member of Council
Publications
The object of art: the theory of illusion in 18th century France
Marian Hobson - Published in 1982
Jacques Derrida: opening lines
Marian Hobson - Published in 1998
Diderot, Lettre sur les aveugles, lettres sur les sourds et muets
Marian Hobson - Published in 2000 by Flammarion
Diderot and Rousseau: Networks of Enlightenment
Marian Hobson - Published in 2011 by Oxford, SVEC
Denis Diderot's Rameau's Nephew
Edited by Marian Hobson, translated by Kate E. Tunstall, and Caroline Warman - Published in 2016
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Peggy Kamuf FBA
Contemporary French philosophy, especially the work of Jacques Derrida. Translation theory and translations of many works from French, by Derrida but also by Hélène Cixous
Professor Paul Gilroy FBA
African American literature and culture; the cultural history of postcolonial societies; the sociology of ethnicity, race and racism in Britain
Professor John Barrell FBA
English Language and Literature History of a specific country Britain in the 18th & 19th C. History of Art Theory of Painting Cultural Geography
