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Name Professor Susan Harrow
Job title Ashley Watkins Chair in French Language and Literature
Department Department of French University of Bristol
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Qualifications MA Hons (Edin.), Ph.D.(Edin.), Officier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Acad?miques
Professional details
Membership of professional bodies I am a past President of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes (www.sdn.ac.uk) and a past President of the Society for French Studies (www.sfs.ac.uk).

I served as Joint Editor of 'Romance Studies' (Maney Publishing) between 1999 and 2008. Beyond the University, I have served on the Executive Committees of the following scholarly societies and associations: the Society for French Studies (2002–2008, 2009-), the Association of University Professors and Heads of French (2006–08) and the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes (2007–2010).

I was a member of the UKRI REF 2021 Sub-Panel in Modern Languages and Linguistics, and served also as an Interdisciplinary Advisor.
Keywords French literature
visual culture
literary modernism
Zola
French culture
Areas of expertise My research 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. I published 'The Material, the Real and the Fractured Self: Subjectivity and Representation from Rimbaud to Réda (Toronto UP) in 2004. Following on from a short study of Zola (University of Glasgow, 1998), I wrote 'Zola, the Body Modern: Pressures and Prospects of Representation' (Legenda, 2010).

My recent monograph on modern French poetry and related visual culture, was published by Bloomsbury Academic Press (2020). 'Colourworks: Chromatic Innovation in Modern French Poetry and Art Writing' was joint winner of the R. Rapper Book Prize, chosen from a field of 49 entries for the 'Best Book in French and Francophone Studies'.
Media experience Some BBC Radio experience.