Michael Syrotinski#
| Membership Number: | 4836 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/mlc/staff/michaelsyrotinski |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 Marshall Professor of French, University of Glasgow
- 2016 - 2017 Head of School of Modern Languages, University of Glasgow
- 2003 - 2111 Professor of French and Francophone Studies, University of Aberdeen, translated to Carnegie Professorship 2010
- 2000 - 2003 Reader in French, University of Aberdeen
- 1992 - 2000 Lecturer in French, University of Aberdeen
- 1988 - 1992 Assistant Professor of French, Illinois State University
- 1986 - 1988 Instructor of French, Yale University
Fields of Scholarship
- Francophone African literature, philosophy and film
- Twentieth and twenty-first century French literature and culture
- Psychoanalysis
- Translation and Translation studies.
- Modern continental philosophy and critical theory
- Colonial and postcolonial writing
- Comparative literature
Honours and Awards
- B.A. French (First Class) 1981 University of Kent (Prize for best performance in Finals across Arts and Humanities)
- Ph.D. French (Distinction) 1989 Yale University (Whiting Prize for best PhD dissertation in French)
- Translation and critical edition of Paulhan, Flowers of Tarbes nominated for MLA Translation Prize, 2005
