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Professor Charles Forsdick FBA

Francophone postcolonial studies, particularly postcolonial literature; French colonial history (including Haiti); the transatlantic traffic in enslaved Africans; travel writing and exoticism; translation studies; world literature and graphic fiction
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2021
Subjects
History, Literature
Sections
Modern Languages, Literatures and other Media from 1830

Current post

University of Cambridge Drapers Professor of French

2023 -

Previous posts

University of Liverpool James Barrow Professor of French

2001 - 2023

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