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Associate Professor of French Literature and Thought, University of Exeter

My research focuses on French literature, especially nineteenth-century novels and prose poetry. I am particularly interested in how reading literature activates (and deactivates) our empathy. My most recent book is Empathy and the Strangeness of Fiction: Readings in French Realism (Edinburgh University Press, 2020).

Experience

  • 2020–present
    Associate Professor, University of Exeter
  • 2018–2020
    Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter
  • 2013–2018
    Lecturer, University of Exeter
  • 2002–2011
    Lecturer, University of Galway
  • 2000–2002
    Lecturer, University College Dublin

Education

  • 2000 
    Trinity College Dublin, PhD

Honours

President of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes