Department of French

Department of French

   

Hugues Azérad specialises in comparative literature (in particular Proust, Reverdy, Joyce and Faulkner) and French poetry. He currently works on the notions of the modernist image, aesthetic experience/knowledge and utopia in literature, poetry and film.

Dr Azérad teaches French literature and language at Part I and Part II level in the French department and at Magdalene College. He is the co-editor (with Peter Collier) of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: A Critical Anthology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), and the author of L'Univers constellé de Proust, Joyce et Faulkner: le concept d'épiphanie dans l'esthétique du modernisme (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2002); of articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature in Modern Language Review, New Comparison, Journal of Romance Studies, Alizés (http://laboratoires.univ-reunion.fr/oracle/documents/402.html), La Revue française, CLC WEB (Purdue University: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol4/iss3/5/); of chapters in Joyce in Trieste (U. Press of Florida, 2007) and Romantic Border Crossings (Ashgate, 2008); of entries in the Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought (Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004), and in The Literary Encyclopedia (www.litencyc.com 'Reverdy' http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=11866 and 'Glissant': http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5745) and of language projects for Cambridge University (www.multikultura.org.uk and TeachandLearn (BBC/Open University).