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Greg Kerr studied at Trinity College, Dublin where he earned a BA in European Studies and a PhD in French Studies. He also completed an MPhil in European Literature Culture at the University of Cambridge. Before coming to Glasgow, he taught at Sciences Po Paris, the University of Oxford, and Lancaster University. Between 2016 and 2017, he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at the Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française (ATILF) research laboratory of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Nancy. His primary research interests are in modern poetry in French literature, examining themes such as exile, non-belonging, and statelessness, particularly in the works of authors like Grangaud, Jabès, and Lubin. He has published works including 'Exile, Non-Belonging, Statelessness' and 'Dream Cities: Utopia Prose Poets Nineteenth-Century France'. Kerr is dedicated to supervising students on topics including 19th-20th-century French literature and urban studies, and is involved in editorial capacities for several academic journals.
University of Glasgow • Glasgow
Teaching modern French poetry and poetics, supervising student research, and leading course design.