Dr. J. Hiddleston
University Lecturer (CUF) in French, Fellow of Exeter College
Email: jane.hiddleston@exeter.ox.ac.uk
Research
Jane Hiddleston's research interests include francophone postcolonial literature, and literary theory. Her first book investigates notions of community in French philosophy and North African immigrant literature in French, and she traces a shift from an emphasis on difference and alterity to a discovery of alternative forms of relations in both genres. She has also published a study of the Algerian writer Assia Djebar, whom she situates in relation to contemporary French philosophy and postcolonial theory. More recently, she has published a student introduction to postcolonialism entitled Understanding Postcolonialism and a research monograph entitled Poststructuralism and Postcoloniality: The Anxiety of Theory. She is currently planning a monograph on francophone intellectuals at the time of decolonisation, and she is also editing a volume on Postcolonial Poetics: Genre and Form, for the new Liverpool University Press series on Francophone Postcolonial Studies.
Teaching
French language and literature, especially nineteenth and twentieth century, francophone literature and literary theory. Special authors Stendhal, Flaubert, Baudelaire, Gide, Sartre, Duras. Special subjects on postcolonial literatures and literary theory.
Graduate Teaching
Mst Literary Theory course, and Special Subject on Francophone Literature. I would be prepared to supervise Mst dissertations and DPhils in a range of subjects in francophone literature, postcolonial theory and literary theory.
Publications
Books:
Reinventing Community: Identity and Difference in Late Twentieth-century Philosophy and Literature in French (Oxford: Legenda, 2005)
Assia Djebar: Out of Algeria (Liverpool University Press, 2006)
Understanding Postcolonialism. Acumen, 2009.
Poststructuralism and Postcoloniality: The Anxiety of Theory. Liverpool University Press, 2010.
Selected Articles:
'The Specific Plurality of Assia Djebar', French Studies, 58.3 (2004),
'Feminism and the Question of Woman in Assia Djebar's Vaste est la prison', Research in African literatures, 35.4 (2004),
'Political Violence and Singular Testimony: Assia Djebar's Le Blanc de l'Algerie', Law and Literature, 17.1 (2005),
'Derrida, Autobiography and Postcoloniality', French Cultural Studies, 16.3 (2005),
'Displacing Barthes: Self, Other, and the Anxiety of Theory', Modern and Contemporary France, 15.2 (2007), 169-184
'Spivak's Echo: Theorizing Otherness and the Space of Response', Textual Practice 21.4 (2007), 623-640.
'The Perplexed Persona of Frantz Fanon's Peau noire, masques blancs', Postcolonial Text 4.4 (2008), 1-16.
'Lyotard's Algeria: Experiments in Theory', Paragraph 33.1 (2010), 52-69
'Aime Cesaire and Postcolonial Humanism', The Modern Languages Review 105.1 (2010), 87-102.
'Imprisonment, freedom and literary opacity in the work of Nawal El Saadawi and Assia Djebar', in Feminist Theory 11.2 (2010), 1-17.
'Interpretation politique et theorie postcoloniale: le moi, l'autre, et les incertitudes de la critique', Litteratures francophones et politiques ed. Jean Bessiere. Paris: Editions Karthala, 2010, 51-62.