Professor Marian Hobson FBA

History, French Language and Literature
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

Multimedia edition

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Professor W J T Mitchell FBA

The study of images, media & visual culture in relation to politics in both traditional & modern societies.

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Professor David Womersley FBA

English literature of the long eighteenth century, especially Gibbon, Swift, Burke and Johnson; sixteenth-century historiography and historical drama; the history of literary criticism; the theory and practice of textual editing

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Professor Joachim Whaley FBA

The Holy Roman Empire in its European context from the fifteenth century to 1806; the legacy of the Holy Roman Empire in German-speaking central Europe from 1806 to the present

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