In recent years the Department has appointed Special Professors from France, the US, Switzerland and the UK. Special Professors normally visit the Department once a year over a period of three years, giving public lectures, research seminars and leading research workshop and reading sessions. They have also been keynote speakers at conferences organized by the Department.
Special Professor 2010-13
David Macey (Leeds)
Special Professor 2006-2009
Michel Jeanneret (Université de Genève, Johns Hopkins University)
Special Professor 2003-2006
Françoise Lionnet (UCLA)
School of Modern Languages Special Professor 2003-2006
Luce Irigaray (CNRS, France)
Special Professor 2000-2003
Peggy Kamuf (University of Southern California)
Special Professor 1998-2001
Jean Emelina (Sophia-Nice)
Public lectures given by Special Professors and other visiting scholars
2008-2009
School of Modern Languages and Cultures Annual Lecture
Tuesday 14 October
‘Beauvoir and the Refusal of Myth’
Michèle Le Doeuff (CNRS)
2006-2007
Tuesday 1 May
‘Rêver l’auteur : pourquoi les biographies d’écrivain?’
Prof Michel Jeanneret (Université de Genève, Johns Hopkins University)
2005-2006
In collaboration with English Studies and Critical Theory
Thursday 11 May
‘“Why Emma Bovary had to be Killed”: Some Reflections on Literature, Medicine and Democracy’
Prof Jacques Rancière (Université de Paris-VIII)
School of Modern Languages Special Lecture
Thursday 8 June
‘A New Genealogy of Modernism: Idealism Reconsidered’
Prof Toril Moi (Duke University)
2004-2005
Wednesday 1 December
‘Translating Grief’
Prof Françoise Lionnet (UCLA)
Wednesday 18 May
‘Why and How to Return Home’
Prof Luce Irigaray (CNRS, France)
2003-2004
Wednesday 10 March
‘From Simone de Beauvoir to Coline Serreau by way of Edward Said: Transitional Feminism in France?’
Prof Françoise Lionnet (UCLA)
Thursday 13 May
‘How to meet in difference?’
Prof Luce Irigaray (CNRS, France)
2002-2003
Friday 13 December
‘Being with the Other’
Prof Luce Irigaray (CNRS, France)
Tuesday 18 March
‘Panic and Paine’
Prof Peggy Kamuf (University of Southern California)
2001-2002
Anniversary Lecture – 40 Years of Nottingham French Studies
Monday 26 November
‘Bazin’s Rib: French Women Film-makers and the Evolution of the Auteur Concept’
Prof Colin Nettelbeck (University of Melbourne)
2000-2001
Friday 23 February
‘Beginning to Read’
Prof Peggy Kamuf (University of Southern California)