Susan Harrow

Susan Harrow is Ashley Watkins Professor of French. She joined Bristol in 2007 from an established professorship at the University of Sheffield. Her research and teaching interests lie in the later-nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially poetry and the novel with a particular focus on the interrelation of literary modernism and visual culture. The author of four monographs, she published The Material, the Real and the Fractured Self: Subjectivity and Representation from Rimbaud to Réda (University of Toronto Press, 2004) and has recently published Colourworks: Chromatic Innovation in Modern French Poetry (2020 with Bloomsbury Academic Press: ), which was awarded the R. Gapper Book Prize (2021) by the Society for French Studies. Following Zola; La Curée (University of Glasgow, 1998), she published Zola. the Body Modern: Pressures and Prospects of Representation (Legenda, 2010). She has recently completed a monograph project on epistolarity and the letters of selected French writers, supported by a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship. Her new book project is an intermedial cultural history of Guillaume Apollinaire. She has served as a Strategic Reviewer at AHRC and as a member of the REF 2021 Sub-Panel for Modern Languages and Linguistics and also as an Interdisciplinary Advisor to the Sub-Panel. She was elected President of the Society for French Studies (2010-12), the longest-established and largest association in French studies. In 2011 she was awarded the rank of Officier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques for services to French culture.