Official Student and Tutor in French at Christ Church College

Gresham Professor of Rhetoric, Gresham College, City of London

Research

Belinda Jack's main research interests are in Francophone Writing, Women's Writing,  Biography, and Reading.

Teaching

French language and literature, especially the Modern Period.

Selected Publications

• 'Poetry and Emotion', The Lancet, 391 (2018), 732-733
• The Woman Reader (Yale, 2012)
• 'Epreuve avant la lettre: George Sand et l'autobiographie renversée', Littérature, 134 (2004), 121-130
• Beatrice's Spell: The Enduring Legend of Beatrice Cenci (Chatto and Windus, 2003)
• George Sand: A Woman's Life Writ Large (Chatto and Windus, 1999)
• Negritude and Literary Criticism: The History and Theory of 'Negro-African' Literature in French (Greenwood Press, 1996)
• Francophone Literatures: An Introductory Survey (Oxford: OUP, 1996)