Professor Michael Sheringham
BA, MA, PhD, FBA, Officier, Ordre des Palmes Académiques
Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature and Fellow since 2004
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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
- André 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
- André Breton: A Bibliography, London: Grant and Cutler, 1972, 120 pp
- Link to publications
Teaching and supervision
- Modern French literature and thought
Other professional memberships and roles
- Collège 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), Université Paris VII (1994–5)
Research awards and grants
- Leverhulme Research Award (2009)