Professor Susan Harrow of the University’s Department of French has been awarded the grade of ‘Officier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques'. The Order, founded by Napoleon in 1808, to reward those who have made a major contribution to French education and culture, has three grades: Chevalier, Officier, Commandeur.
Professor Harrow’s research and teaching 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.
Professor Harrow is currently President of the Society for French Studies, the oldest and the leading scholarly association in the field. She was President of the Society of Dix Neuviémistes (2008-2011) and is a former Joint Editor of Romance Studies journal (1999-2008).
Other Bristol holders of the award at Officier level include Professor John Parkin, Professors Emeriti Haydn Mason and Timothy Unwin, and Dr Peter Hawkins.