Dr. Nicholas Harrison

Biography

Nicholas Harrison studied French and German undergraduate at Cambridge before starting graduate work in English teaching positions in the University of Tunis and rural Quebec, sparking his long-term interest in the Francophone world, especially France. In 1989, he began a PhD on censorship, returning to Cambridge after years in Paris, where he worked as a lector at the ENS rue d’Ulm. In 1992, he took a Junior Research Fellowship at St Catharine's College and began working in Francophone literature from the Maghreb. After a brief stint at UCL, he joined King's College London in 2007 as a Professor of French and Postcolonial Studies. He serves as the President of the Society for French Studies from 2024 to 2026 and has been an elected member of Academia Europaea since 2016, with a recent Fellowship at the British Academy in 2023. His research spans French and Comparative Studies, colonial/postcolonial studies, film studies particularly on North African Francophone writers, literary and critical theory, censorship, and translation, focusing on the political and historical contexts of literary and cinematic works.

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