Research

The members of staff of the Discipline of French all conduct research in a number of different periods and areas of French cultural production. Due to these varied fields of expertise, higher-degree students can be supervised in a great number of different areas from contemporary French society and politics to the literature and social history of the 18th and 19th Centuries. Below is a list of some of the discipline's research strengths, but this list is by no means exhaustive (some more details and publications can be found in the staff pages of this site). If you are interested in pursuing postgraduate study on any French-related topic, please contact the discipline convenor for more information.

Research strengths:

• Mediaeval, 18th, 19th and 20th-century French literature
• French poetry
• History of Ideas in the 19th Century
• 20th-century continental philosophy
• Contemporary French Society
• Literature and Politics (19th and 20th Centuries)
• History of French Exploration in the Pacific (in particular the Baudin Expedition)
• Applied linguistics
• Romanticism, Surrealism, Existentialism, Post-structuralism, Crime Fiction, the Picaresque tradition, Autobiography
• Ajar/Gary, Aragon, Balzac, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Beauchemin, Breton, Camus, Céline, Chrétien de Troyes, Darrieussecq, Diderot, Djian, Duras, Ernaux, Flaubert, Furetière, Gracq, Lainé, Leiris, Maupassant, Modiano, Nerval, Pennac, Proust, Sartre, Scarron, Sue, Tournier, Stendhal