Professor Susan Harrow

Tel: +44 (0)117 331 8337

Fax: (0117) 3318010

E-mail: s.r.harrow@bristol.ac.uk

Room: 1.65 19 Woodland Road

Research Publications

Susan Harrow is Professor of French and, from academic year 2009-2010, Deputy Head of the School of Modern  Languages (Research).  Her research and teaching interests lie in the later-nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially poetry and the novel with a particular focus on the interrelation of literary modernism and visual culture.  She has contributed papers in these areas at numerous conferences in the USA, Canada, France, Belgium, Finland and the UK.  Her study entitled The Material, the Real and the Fractured Self: Subjectivity and Representation from Rimbaud to Réda (University of Toronto Press) appeared in 2004.

Following on from a short study of Zola (University of Glasgow, 1998), she wrote Zola, the Body Modern: Pressures and Prospects of Representation (Legenda, 2009).'   She is currently editing Sublimely Visual: The Art of the Text, a collection of essays developed from the conference she organised at Bristol in September 2008.

With Timothy Unwin (Bristol), she co-edited Joie de vivre in French Literature and Culture, a thematic festschrift in honour of Michael Freeman (Rodopi, 2009).  With Andrew Watts (Birmingham), she is presently working on a volume on literary and cultural memory in nineteenth-century France.

She served as Joint Editor of Romance Studies (Maney Publishing) between 1999 and 2008.  Beyond the University, she has served on the Executive Committees of the following scholarly societies and associations: the Society for French Studies (2002–2008), the Association of University Professors and Heads of French (2006–08) and the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes (2007–).  She is currently President of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes and President of the Society for French Studies.  

Increasingly, undergraduates are keen to extend their studies into Postgraduate work, with all the intellectual, personal and professional benefits this brings.  She would be delighted to hear from prospective postgraduates (that is, undergraduates at any stage) who are keen to pursue projects in the areas of later-nineteenth- and earlier-twentieth-century French literature, possibly with a visual culture component.  Especially exciting this coming year (2009–2010) is the launch of the Bristol MA Modern Languages (School of Modern Languages).  With her Italianist colleague, Professor Derek Duncan, she is joint convenor of the MA (pathway) Visual Culture: Text and Image. 

Her specialist Undergraduate units are all interdisciplinary in nature and involve narrative, poetry, visual culture, theatre and critical thought:

FREN 20041: Paris 1857–1897: Image and Text

FREN 30096:  Around Cubism

FREN 20040:  Surrealism: Disruptive Desire in Textual & Visual Culture