Professor Christopher Lloyd

Biography

After studying at Brasenose College, Oxford and Warwick University, I worked as a teacher of English for three years in French universities, before being appointed temporary lecturer in French at Durham in 1980 (subsequently gaining promotion to lecturer, senior lecturer and professor).  In 1992, I was a visiting professor in the English Department at Dijon University.  From 1997 to 2000, I was Head of the School of Modern European Languages at Durham, and from 2002 to 2006 Director of Undergraduate studies and Chair of the School’s Teaching and Learning Committee.

My teaching covers a wide range of courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level on nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and culture, as well as written French language.  I have recently supervised PhD students researching on Maupassant and Barrès and Darien, and am happy to supervise research on fin-de-siècle fiction and film and literature related to World War Two.

My research covers two main areas, reflected in the five books, three edited volumes of conference proceedings and many refereed articles which I have published, as well as unpublished lectures and conference papers: (a) the late nineteenth-century novel; (b) fiction, film and culture in France since the Second World War.

My current project is a monograph on the film director Henri-Georges Clouzot, to be published by Manchester University Press.

I am currently collaborating with Professor Margaret Atack of Leeds University on a a major three-year joint project related to cultural representations of the occupation.  Our application for funding of c. £370,000 from the Arts and Humanities Research Council was successful in June 2006.

Selected Publications

Books: authored

Books: edited

Essays in edited volumes

Journal papers: academic

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