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Nicholas White specializes in Nineteenth-Century French literature, with significant focus on issues of war, friendship, love, marriage, and family, along with methods of cultural and literary history. He completed both his undergraduate degree and PhD at the University of Cambridge. In 1993, he took a faculty position at London University and returned to Cambridge in 2002, where he became a Fellow of Emmanuel College. Between 2008 and 2011, he served as Chair of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, directing policies related to teaching and research. His teaching focuses on 19th-century French literature, including the works of notable writers like Balzac, Stendhal, and Zola, and he has supervised numerous PhD theses. White has contributed over fifty journal articles, book chapters, and more than a hundred talks and presentations, and has authored and edited eleven book-length publications. He has been involved in various significant academic committees and projects, including the Cambridge Master's programme in European, Latin American and Comparative Literatures and Culture. His recent research has explored themes in French war literature and the representation of personal relationships in the 19th century.
University of Cambridge • Cambridge, United Kingdom
Professor specializing in Nineteenth-Century French Literature, involved in various academic committees, supervision of PhD students, and contribution to teaching and research policies.
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