Dr. Rebecca Sugden

Biography

Rebecca Sugden is a College Lecturer and Affiliated Lecturer in French at Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge. She completed her undergraduate studies in French and Spanish at Murray Edwards College, graduating with double starred honors in 2014. She then pursued her MPhil in European, Latin American and Comparative Literatures and Cultures from 2014 to 2015, followed by a PhD in French from St John’s College from 2015 to 2018. Rebecca's scholarly work has received several accolades, including the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Association’s Larry Schehr Memorial Award in 2019 and the Naomi Schor Memorial Award in 2016. Her teaching encompasses a wide range of topics within the French section, including Introduction to French Literature and Nineteenth-Century French Culture. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century French literature, particularly the interplay between the novel and political history. She is currently completing a book on narrative fiction and conspiracy thinking during the July Monarchy in France and is starting a new project on the cultural history of simplicity in nineteenth-century France, supported by a CRASSH Early Career Fellowship for 2022-23.

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