Professor C.M. Howells
Christina M. Howells, M.A. (B.A., Ph.D. London), Officier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques
Professor of French, Fellow of Wadham College
Address: Wadham College, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PN
Email: christina.howells@wadh.ox.ac.uk
Research
Professor Howells's research work centres on Continental philosophy, literary theory, and twentieth-century French literature. She is particularly interested in post-war French thought, for example Sartre, Derrida, Lacan, Lyotard, Foucault, Levi-Strauss and Levinas. She has also published with Routledge a Reader of articles by twenty-eight contemporary French women philosophers. She is currently working on ideas of subjectivity and mortality in late twentieth-century French thought.
Teaching
French Literature of 19th and more especially 20th centuries; Literary Theory; and Recent French Thought.
Graduate Teaching
Christina Howells gives seminars in Literary Theory for the MSt; she also teaches 20C French Thought for the MSt. She is happy to consider applicants for doctoral supervision in a variety of aspects of her research areas, and especially Sartre, Derrida, and theories of subjectivity.
Publications
French Women Philosophers, A Contemporary Reader: Subjectivity, Identity, Alterity (Routledge, 2004)
Derrida: Deconstruction from Phenomenology to Ethics (Polity Press, 1998)
The Cambridge Companion to Sartre (Cambridge University Press, 1992)
Sartre: the Necessity of Freedom, C.U.P. (Cambridge, 1988)