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books, three edited volumes of conference proceedings and many refereed articles which I have published, as well as unpublished lectures and conference papers: (a) the late nineteenth-century novel; (b) fiction, film and culture in France since the Second World War.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
- 2007 Henri-Georges Clouzot, Manchester University Press, ix + 192 pp. (Additional information)
- 2003 Collaboration and Resistance in Occupied France: Representing Treason and Sacrifice, Palgrave Macmillan, 288 pp. (Additional information) (View publication online)
- 1996 Mirbeau's Fictions, Durham Modern Languages Series, 115 pp. (Additional information)
- 1994 Marcel Aymé: Uranus and La tête des autres, University of Glasgow, 80 pp. (Additional information)
- 1990 J.-K.Huysmans and the Fin-de-siecle Novel, Edinburgh University Press, 192 pp. (Additional information)
- 1989 Maupassant: 'Bel-Ami', Grant & Cutler, 93 pp. (Additional information)
Books: edited
- 1997 (co-edited with Whyte, P. J.) La Culture Populaire en France, Durham Modern Languages Series. (Additional information)
- 1995 Epidemics and Sickness in French Literature and Culture, Durham Modern Languages Series. (Additional information)
- 1994 (co-edited with Lethbridge, R.) Maupassant conteur et romancier, Durham Modern Languages Series. (Additional information)
Essays in edited volumes
- 2007 'Women's Resistance Narratives in France: Redefining Gender and Genre', in D. Hipkins & G. Plain eds., War-torn Tales: Literature, Film and Gender in the Aftermath of World War II, Oxford, Peter Lang, 2007
- 2005 'Inventing the French Resistance: Heroes, Traitors and Fakers in the Resistance Novel and Memoir', in Knight, P. & Long, Jonathan J. (eds.), Fakes and Forgeries, Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 107-117 (Additional information)
- 2003 'Divided Loyalties: Singing in the Occupation', in Dauncey, H. & Cannon, S. (eds.), Popular Music in France from Chanson to Techno, Ashgate, pp. 153-170 (Additional information) (View publication online)
- 2003 'Huysmans et l'humour fin-de-siècle', in de Gregorio Cirillo, V. & Petrone, M. (eds.), J.-K. Huysmans: La Modernite d'un anti-moderne. Actes du colloque international (7-8 mai 2001), L'Orientale Editrice, pp. 31-48 (Additional information)
- 2001 'Huysmans auteur comique', in Bertrand, J.-P., Duran, S. & Grauby, F. (eds.), Huysmans à côté et au-delà, Peeters/Vrin, pp. 361-378 (Additional information)
- 2000 'Eliminating the Detective: Boileau-Narcejac, Clouzot and Les Diaboliques', in Mullen, A. & O'Beirne, E. (eds.), Crime Scenes: Detective Narratives in European Culture since 1945, Rodopi, pp. 37-47 (Additional information)
- 2000 'From Catastrophe to Utopia: the wartime novels of René Barjavel', in Thomas, N. E. & Le Saux, F. (eds.), Utopias, Durham Modern Languages Series, pp. 161-174 (Additional information)
- 2000 'Dracula et les métamorphoses du vampire', in Montandon, A. (ed.), Mythes de la décadence, Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, pp. 335-344 (Additional information)
- 1998 'Criminalité et liberté dans Le Chemin des écoliers', in Cresciucci, Alain (ed.), Littératures contemporains, pp. 127-139
- 1998 'Marcel Aymé's 'La Carte'', in Flower, J.E. (ed.), Short French Fiction: Essays on the Short Story in France in the Twentieth Century, Exeter University Press. (Additional information)
Journal papers: academic
- 2007 'Irène Némirovsky's Suite franÇaise and the Crisis of Rights and Identity', Contemporary French Civilization 32, pp. 161-182 (Additional information) (View publication online
- 2001 'Comic Songs in the Occupation', Journal of European Studies 31, pp. 370-393 (Additional information) (View publication online)
- 2001 'Jean Moulin and the Resistance', Modern & Contemporary France 9, pp. 373-377 (Additional information)
- 2001 'Mirbeau traduit en anglais', Cahiers Octave Mirbeau 8, pp. 385-395
- 1998 'Maupassant et les stéréotypes nationaux', Dix-neuf/Vingt 6, pp. 9-24
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Grants Awarded and Grant Applications
- 2006: AHRC Research Grant £366K [co-investigator with Professor Atack in Leeds]
- 2000: British Academy Travel Award