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Rebecca Sugden is a College Lecturer in French and an Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics. With an academic background in both French and Spanish, she received her BA with double starred honors from Murray Edwards College in 2014, followed by an MPhil in European, Latin American, and Comparative Literatures and Cultures in 2015. She completed her PhD in French at St John's College in 2018. Rebecca's teaching interests encompass a range of language and literature papers, including introductory courses in French literature and linguistics, translation, and the study of desires and power in nineteenth-century French culture. Her research specializes in nineteenth-century French literature, particularly exploring the relationship between the novel and political history. Currently, she is completing a book on the interplay of narrative fiction and conspiracy thinking during the July Monarchy in France, alongside initiating a 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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