Professor of French

Room: Arts 1.13
Tel: +44 20 7882 8308
Fax: +44 20 8980 5400
email: e.j.hughes@qmul.ac.uk

OFFICE HOURS: Semester One, 2011-12
Professor Edward Hughes,
French department, SLLF
Monday 12.00 to 1.00
Tuesday 12.00 to 1.00
Research day: Thursday
Courses taught: FRE300 Proust; FRE452 French
III ‘Commentaire’ and Translation; FRE468: French Foundations (Mai 68)

Areas of Specialisation

Twentieth-century French literature. French colonial culture. Exoticism. Francophone literature of the Maghreb.

Publications

Books

• Marcel Proust: a Study in the Quality of Awareness (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1983)
• Albert Camus, 'Le Premier Homme'/'La Peste' (Glasgow, University of Glasgow French and German Publications, 1995)
• Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature: from Loti to Genet (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001). xii + 209 pp; second edition, 2006
• (Edited volume) The Cambridge Companion to Camus (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,  2007)
• Proust, Class and Nation (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011)
  

Articles and book chapters (since 2000)

• 'Entre la banalité et la marginalité: refus et quête du sens dans La Vie matérielle de Marguerite Duras' in Brian Stimpson ed., Lectures de Duras, Dalhousie French Studies, 50, Spring 2000, 117-27
• 'Cultural Stereotyping: Segalen against Loti', in C. Forsdick and S. Marson, eds, Segalen: Reading Diversity - Lectures du Divers (University of Glasgow French and German Publications, 2000), pp. 25-38
• 'Proust and Social Spaces', in Richard Bales ed., Cambridge Companion to Proust (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001), 151-67
• 'Marcel Proust', in Margaretta Jolly, ed., Encyclopaedia of Life Writing (London, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001), pp. 731-34
• 'Cataclysm at One Remove: the War in Le Temps retrouvé', in Elyane Dezon-Jones ed., Approaches to Teaching Proust's Fiction and Criticism (New York, Modern Language Association of America, 2003), pp. 38-43
• 'The Good Cause?', Francophone Postcolonial Studies, 1.2 (Autumn/Winter 2003), 79-82
• 'Textual and tribal assimilation: representing Jewishness in A la recherche du temps perdu', also published in Jewish Culture and History ; will also appear as book chapter in The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, Bryan Cheyette and Nadia Valman, eds., (London, Vallentine Mitchell, 2004), pp. 152-73
• Dictionnaire Marcel Proust, (Paris, Editions Champion, 2004): (7 full articles: 'Charlus', 'Doncières', 'Drame du coucher', 'Histoire', 'Mère' 'Province', 'Vice'; 20 short articles: 'Critique sociologique', 'Affaire Dreyfus', 'Exotisme', 'Hiérarchie', 'Indifférence', 'Jupien', 'Jupien (hôtel de)', 'Maison close', 'Affaire Marie', 'Maurras', Michelet', 'Orléans', 'Patriotisme', 'Perversité', 'Politique', 'Propagande', 'Saint-André-des-Champs', 'Vice', 'Voyeurisme', 'Xénophobie'; 12 notes. Total contribution: c. 30,000 words.
• 'Exotic drift: Pierre Loti between contemporaneity and anteriority' in Eastern Voyages, Western Visions: French Writing and Painting of the Orient, Margaret Topping, ed., (Oxford, Peter Lang, 2004), pp. 241-64
• 'L'ordre social dans Combray' in Marcel Proust Aujourd'hui 3, (Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2005), pp. 63-80
• 'Haunted and Haemorrhaging: the World of Mohammed Dib's La Nuit sauvage', French Studies, LIX., 1 (January, 2005), 63-69
• 'Sous un signe double': language and identity in Assia Djebar's L'Amour, la fantasia' in Richard Bales, ed., Challenges of Translation (Oxford, Peter Lang, 2005), pp. 221-35
• ‘“ Le prélude d’une sorte de [mort historique]”: Underpinning Assimilation in Camus’s Chroniques Algériennes’, in L’Esprit Créateur, 47.1 (Spring 2007), 7-18
• ‘A Witness on the Edge: Jean Genet and the Shatila Massacres’, in Daisy Connon et al., eds. Aesthetics of Dislocation in French and Francophone Literature and Art: Strategies of Representation (Edwin Mellen Press, 2009), pp. 53-68
• 'Hierarchies' in Adam Watt, ed. 'Le Temps retrouvé': Eighty Years After / 80 ans après: Critical Essays / Essais critiques (Berlin, Peter Lang, 2009), pp. 117-31
• '“Sur un point solitaire du globe”: Camus, Algeria, Conflict and Art, Expressions maghrébines, 9, no. 2 (hiver 2010), 135-50
• 'Perspectives sur la culture populaire dans l'œuvre de Proust', Morales de Proust, Cahiers de littérature française IX-X (November 2010), eds. Mariolina Bertini and Antoine Compagnon (Bergamo University Press / L'Harmattan), 69-82
• 'Pierre Michon, “Small Lives”, and the Terrain of Art', Romance Studies, 29, no. 2 (April 2011), 67-79

Other roles

Formely President of The Society for French Studies (UK and Ireland)

External Links

Edward Hughes's contribution to Professor Antoine Compagnon's 'Morales de Proust seminar at the College de France (February 2008)

Edward Hughes's discussion of the life and work of Albert Camus in 'The Philosopher's Zone', Australian Broadcasting Corporation (January 2010)