Qualifications
B.A. (Hons) University of Canterbury, Kent; D.Phil (Oxford), MA Status (Oxford)
Academic Background
Bookish
Undergraduate Teaching
19th and 20th Century French and Francophone Literatures; literary translation
Research Interests
As above; also biography
Publications include:
The Woman Reader (Yale, 2012)
'Epreuve avant la lettre: George Sand et l'autobiographie renversée', Littérature, 134 (2004), 121-130
Beatrice's Spell: The Enduring Legend of Beatrice Cenci (Chatto and Windus, 2003)
George Sand: A Woman's Life Writ Large (Chatto and Windus, 1999)
Negritude and Literary Criticism: The History and Theory of 'Negro-African' Literature in French (Greenwood Press, 1996)
Francophone Literatures: An Introductory Survey (Oxford: OUP, 1996)
Hobbies
Travelling
