I held the Established Chair of French Studies from 1990 to 2011. My research derives from specialist bases in French Studies, but is also cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary. In general, I am interested in the relations of history, politics and narrative form - the operations of ideology in prose fiction, as they manifest themselves in particular texts. In French Studies, I work ...

I was appointed to the University of Birmingham in 1995. My main areas of interest are all aspects of contemporary French politics and society.

I have published widely in various genres of Medieval literature: epic, romance and translation from Latin to Medieval French, with a particular interest in the translation by Jean de Meun of the Letters of Abelard and Heloise. Latterly I have been working with Prof Glyn Burgess on publishing editions of Old French narrative lays.

I work on Francophone Caribbean literature and culture, postcolonial theory, biopolitics, intercultural studies and contemporary literary theory.

Research blog: The Open Boat. A blog on Caribbean literatures and diasporas.

I hold a Personal Chair in French Cultural History. My main research areas are 20th-century Cultural History (especially Jean Paulhan and the Nouvelle Revue française), the life and work of Armand Petitjean, and Franco-British Inter-Cultural Studies, with a particular focus on the French presence in London.

I have research interests in Zola’s fiction, French Cinema and  screen adaptation. My publications include studies on Zola, various aspects of the cinema and  together with Ron Hallmark and Ian Pickup, I have published books and articles  on studying in France.

I first came to Birmingham as a lectrice as part of the on-going exchange with the University of Nancy II, Lorraine (France). I am a specialist in the works of Julien Gracq, one of the foremost French literary figures of the 2^nd half of the 20^th century, and also of J.M.G. Le Clézio, the 2008 Nobel prize winner. I am now the longest serving member of the Department of French Studies.

I am Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality. My work is located at the intersection of sexuality and gender studies, cultural studies, and critical theory. My research has a European, especially French, bent and also focuses on comparative European and North American contexts. My most recent publications have been on the gendering, sexualization, and othering of the figure of the ...

I teach on numerous French language programmes, including final year translation, and lecture on French women’s writing (twentieth century onwards). I am currently Programme Lead for French Studies.

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I completed my first degree and MA at the University of Warwick, before moving to Wadham College, Oxford to write my doctoral thesis under the supervision of Professor Malcolm Bowie. I joined the University of Birmingham in September 2005, having previously held temporary posts at Keble College, Oxford and the Universities of Leeds and Exeter.

I first came to Birmingham as a Colloquial Assistant (lectrice), as part of the University’s long-standing exchange with The Université Lumière Lyon 2.   After a few months back in France, I decided to return to Birmingham and the Department of French Studies, again as a Colloquial Assistant.  I have not left since.  

 
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Lecturer in French, specialising in Francophone Postcolonial literature, film and culture

I am passionate about the history, literature and culture of France under the ancien régime. My main areas of research interest are French Enlightenment philosophy - particularly the work of Montesquieu - and relations between France and its colonies in the New World from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. I also work on exchanges of texts and ideas between England and ...

My work focuses on French, European and women's film-making, on French and feminist thought (existentialist and post-structuralist theory) and on film theory and aesthetics.

I am a twentieth century specialist with particular interests in the inter-war and Second World War periods, gender, and translation studies.

Since I retired as a Senior Lecturer in the Department, I have been focusing on full-time research into the lives of women in seventeenth-century France. 

• Awarded the Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques
• Awarded the Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
• Given the Docteur honoris causa (Université de Toulouse - Le Mirail) in 2010

Professor Peter ...

I came to the University of Birmingham as an undergraduate back in 1987 (don’t do the maths!) and I have never left. I have been with the department of French Studies since 1996 and currently hold the position of Teaching Fellow.

I came to Birmingham in 2006, and am based in the Department of Modern Languages. Among a range of teaching and research interests, I am particularly keen to promote the study of French literature and the visual arts, and the interactions between them.

I have been Lecturer in French Studies at Birmingham since 2007. My key teaching and research interests are in nineteenth-century French literature and film adaptation. I am also responsible for the French Year Abroad programme.

In the French department I taught on undergraduate and postgraduate courses on literature and cinema, including a final-year option on Godard, Resnais and Rohmer. I was Head of Department from 1997 to 2002. In my retirement I have continued to edit Benjamin Constant’s Correspondance généralewith Dr C P Courtney (Christ’s College, Cambridge) and Dr Adrianne J Tooke ...