Professor A.M. Jefferson
Ann Jefferson, M.A., D.Phil, FBA. Officière dans l’ordre des palmes académiques
Professor of French, Fellow and Tutor of New College
Address: New College, Holywell Street, Oxford, OX1 3BN
Email: ann.jefferson@new.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 279521
Fax: 01865 279521
Research
Ann Jefferson's research interests lie in the field of C19th and C20th fiction, autobiography, criticism and theory. Her publications include books on the Nouveau Roman, Nathalie Sarraute, and Stendhal. Her most recent book is Biography and the Question of Literature in France(2007), and she is currently working on the history of the idea of genius in France. She has supervised doctoral theses on Michel Leiris, Nathalie Sarraute, Céline, Beckett, Marguerite Duras, Mikhail Bakhtin, Christine Brooke-Rose, the essay as form, the relations between the nouveau roman and the nouvelle vague, the realist novel, and a number of topics in literary theory.
Teaching
French Language and Literature, especially C19th and C20th French prose. She lectures on topics in the C19th and C20th.
Graduate Teaching
C20th Life-writing
Publications
Biography and the Question of Literature in France (Oxford University Press, 2007)
Nathalie Sarraute, Fiction and Theory: Questions of Difference (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Editor, Nathalie Sarraute, Œuvres complètes, under the general editorship of Jean-Yves Tadié in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, a revised and expanded edition of this volume is currently forthcoming (Gallimard Pléiade, 1996)
Reading Realism in Stendhal (Cambridge University Press, 1988)
With David Robey and others, Modern Literary Theory: A Comparative Introduction (Batsford, 1982, revised and enlarged edition, 1986)
The Nouveau Roman and the Poetics of Fiction (Cambridge University Press, 1980)