Background

Professor of French, Royal Holloway, University of London (from 1995 to 2004)

Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and latterly Professor of French Literature, University of
Kent at Canterbury (from 1974 to 1995)
Lecturer in French, NUI (from 1973 to 1974)
Undergraduate and Postgraduate, University of Kent at Canterbury (from 1966 to
1971)
Research interests
French Literature and Thought
Andr Breton and Surrealism
Modern and contemporary poetry
Autobiography and related genres
Everyday life
Archival memory
Selected publications
Everyday Life: Theories and Practices from Surrealism to the Present, Oxford
University Press, 2006 (Paperback 2009)
French Autobiography: Devices and desires. Rousseau to Perec, Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1993, 350 pp
Beckett: Molloy, London: Grant and Cutler, 1985
Andr Breton: A Bibliography, London: Grant and Cutler, 1972, 120 pp

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Teaching and supervision
Modern French literature and thought
Other professional memberships and roles
Collge de France (March 2007), ENS-Ulm (April 2007)
Pajus Distinguished Visitor in French Studies, UC Berkeley (Sept.Dec. 2006)
Vice-President/President of the Society for French Studies (from 2001 to 2004)
Visiting Professor: Paris IV (2002), Bordeaux III (2001), Universit Paris VII (1994
5)
Research awards and grants
Leverhulme Research Award (2009)