Charles Forsdick#
| Membership Number: | 2954 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.liv.ac.uk/info/portal/pls/portal/tulwwwmerge.mergepage?p_template=sml&p_tulipproc=staff&p_params=%3Fp_func%3Dteldir%26p_hash%3DA673606%26p_url%3DLC%26p_template%3Dsml |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2023 - present Drapers Professor of French, University of Cambridge
- 2023 - present Honorary Professor in the Centre for the Study of International Slavery, University of Liverpool
- 2005 - 2023 James Barrow Professor of French, University of Liverpool
Fields of Scholarship
- Travel literature
- French Postcolonialism
- Francophone literatures
- Contemporary French novel
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Corresponding Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities
- 2021 Fellow of the British Academy
- 2005 Philip Leverhulme Prize (by Leverhulme Trust)
- 2005 French Studies in the UK (by University of Bristol) (occasion: New Directions in French Studies conference)
- 2004 Inaugural lecture (by Centre for French and Francophone Cultural Studies)
- 2003 Postcolonialism and Comparatism (by SFPS) (occasion: Dorothy Blair memorial lecture)
- 2003 Hidden journeys: reading twentieth-century women's travel literature in French (by University of Ankara) (occasion: Seuils et Traverses IV)
