University Crest School of European Languages and
Cultures
French

Members of Staff

Head of French

Dr B D Barron (MA, PhD)
Renaissance literature, especially poetry and the novella.
Tel: 0131-650 8422
Email: B.D.Barron@ed.ac.uk


Administrative Secretary

Ms Joanne Naysmith (MA Hons)
Tel: 0131-650 8420
Fax: 0131-650 8408
Email: FREJNA@srv0.arts.ed.ac.uk


Secretary

Mrs M U Accarino
Tel: 0131-650 8421
Email: M.Accarino@ed.ac.uk


Subject Convener

Dr P T Dayan (MA, DPhil)
19th Century literature, especially Mallarmé, Nerval, Lautréamont, Sand, Flaubert and Baudelaire; post-structuralist literary theory, especially Derrida.
Tel: 0131-650 8424
Email: Peter.Dayan@ed.ac.uk


Other Members

Dr K R Aspley (BA, PhD)
Surrealism; myth and legend in 20th Century French literature; African and Carribean literature in french.
Tel: 0131-650 8411
Email: Keith.Aspley@ed.ac.uk


Dr S Bainbrigge
20th century literature, Simone de Beauvoir, feminism and politics.


Mr P E Bennett (BA, MA)
Medieval literature, especially epic, romance and lyric poetry.
Tel: 0131-650 8413
Email: P_Bennett@ed.ac.uk


Dr V Desnain
17th century literature esp. theatre, Racine, contemporary women crime writers.


Prof J Duffy
20th century literature, Claude Simon, the nouveau roman, word and image studies.


Prof P France (MA, DPhil, FBA)
17th and 18th Century literature and culture; rhetoric and poetics.
Tel: 0131-650 8417
Email: P.France@ed.ac.uk


Mr G D Martin (MA, BLitt)
19th and 20th Century poetry; poetics; fantasy literature; Simone Weil; Michel Serres; works on the frontier between science and literature; Word and Image studies.
Tel: 0131-650 8409
Email: Graham.D.Martin@ed.ac.uk


Professor J P Renwick (MA, PhD, DLitt)
18th Century literature and history of ideas; cultural history; the French Revolution; moralists.
Tel: 0131-650 8418
Email: John.Renwick@ed.ac.uk


Dr I W Revie (MA, PhD)
French and European cinema; 20th Century literature and film, especially the post-war novel, poetry from Apollinaire; 17th Century poetry.
Tel: 0131-650 8415
Email: Ian.Revie@ed.ac.uk


Mr G V Rogers (BA)
Contemporary French politics, especially the concept of nationhood, and the nature of relationships between central government and local society.
Tel: 0131-650 8414
Email: FREGVRS@srv0.arts.ed.ac.uk


Dr M Schmid
19th & 20th century literature, textual genetics, Proust, Flaubert.
Email: M.Schmid@ed.ac.uk


Dr K Swarbrick (BA, PhD)
Psychoanalysis and French literature; Lacan and Freud; Rousseau
Tel: 0131-650 8419
Email: FREKSS@srv0.arts.ed.ac.uk


Dr J den Toonder
20th century literature, autobiography, the nouveau roman, québecois literature
Email: Jeanette.denToonder@ed.ac.uk


Dr R G Wakely (MA, PhD, LèsL)
History of the teaching of French; French linguistics; French as a world language.
Tel: 0131-650 8412
Email: Richard.Wakely@ed.ac.uk


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All queries concerning French at Edinburgh University should be directed to: French@ed.ac.uk

Page last updated 15 July 1999 by Kaye Brewster
Email: K.Brewster@ed.ac.uk