Qualifications

BA (University of Canterbury, Kent); DPhil (Oxford); MA status (Oxford)

Research interests

My main research interests are in francophone writing, women’s writing, biography and reading.

Featured publications

The Woman Reader (Yale, 2012)

'Epreuve avant la lettre: George Sand et l'autobiographie renversée', Littérature, 134 (2004), pp. 121–30

Beatrice's Spell: The Enduring Legend of Beatrice Cenci (Chatto and Windus, 2003)

George Sand: A Woman's Life Writ Large (Chatto and Windus, 1999)

Negritude and Literary Criticism: The History and Theory of 'Negro-African' Literature in French (Greenwood Press, 1996)

Francophone Literatures: An Introductory Survey (Oxford: OUP, 1996)

Other interests and activities

I enjoy travel.