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Siobhán McIlvanney

Professor in French and Francophone Women’s Writing; Head of Department of French, King's College London

Siobhán McIlvanney is Professor in French and Francophone Women's Writing at King's College London. She was one of the earliest UK researchers to work on Annie Ernaux, completing a PhD on her in 1994 and publishing her monograph Annie Ernaux: The Return to Origins in 2001. She has published extensively in the field of French and Francophone women's writing, including co-edited volumes and a monograph on the early French Women's Press, Figurations of the Feminine in the Early French Women's Press, 1758-1848 (2019).

Books
Annie Ernaux: The Return to Origins Liverpool University Press, 2001)
Figurations of the Feminine in the Early French Women's Press, 1758-1848 (Liverpool University Press, 2019)
Quand la folie parle:The Dialectic Effect of Madness in French Literature since the Nineteenth Century (co-editor) (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014)
Women and the City in French Literature and Culture: Reconfiguring the Feminine in the Urban Environment 9co-editor) (University of Wales Press, 2019)

Experience

  • –present
    Reader in French and Francophone Women’s Writing; Head of Department of French, King's College London