Kate Rees's research interests include the work of Flaubert, the nineteenth century novel, ideas of progress and dynamism in literature, decadent writing and connections between the literature of the late nineteenth and late twentieth centuries, e.g. between Huysmans and Houellebecq.

Teaching

French language, all Prelims texts and nineteenth and twentieth century literature for Papers VIII and XI. I have also taught the Paper XII Women's Writing option.