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Details for Dr Bradley Stephens
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| Name | Dr Bradley Stephens | ||||||
| Job title | Senior Lecturer in French |
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| Department | Department of French University of Bristol |
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| Personal web page | http://www.bris.ac.uk/french/staff/stephens.html | ||||||
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| Qualifications | BA , MA, PhD (Cantab) | ||||||
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| Membership of professional bodies | Society for French Studies Society of Dix-Neuviémistes Modern Languages Association UK Society for Sartre Studies |
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| Keywords | Victor Hugo Romanticism (French) Jean-Paul Sartre Simone de Beauvoir existentialism John Steinbeck committed literature |
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| Areas of expertise | My research focuses on cultures of engagement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially French Romanticism and Existentialism. I look at how French writers and filmmakers who commit their work to principles of social freedom often do so by resisting political doctrine in favour of a more imaginative approach that promotes rather than dictates our own thinking. Recent work has explored previously overlooked connections between Victor Hugo and Jean-Paul Sartre, as well as the structural similarities between the French Romantic and Existentialist movements that they respectively personify. Current projects include continued publication of this work, along with an investigation into the cultural dialogue that opens up between France and America on the notion of engagement from the Revolution onwards. |
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