Professor Alison Finch

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YEAR STARTED

1972

SUBJECT

Modern and Medieval Languages

FELLOW TYPE

Emeritus

Alison Finch is a specialist in post-1800 French literature and is Honorary Professor Emerita in French Literature of Cambridge University. Professor Finch has taught and lectured in French in both Cambridge and Oxford. She has published a number of books and articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors, and covered the whole range of French literature in her latest book, published by Polity Press: ‘French Literature: A Cultural History’.

COLLEGE POSITIONS

Acting Master
01 January 2012 – 30 April 2012

Vice-Master
01 October 2008 – 30 September 2012

Director of Studies in Modern Languages
01 October 2005 – 30 September 2015

Fellow in French
01 October 2005 – 30 September 2015

Editor of Churchill Review 2010-2015 (issues 48-52)