Dr Jane Hiddleston

"My research focuses on francophone postcolonial literature, which means novels, poems and essays by writers from the colonies and ex-colonies. Although many of France’s colonised territories achieved independence in the 1950s and 60s, there are still a number of overseas regions and territories, such as Martinique and Guadeloupe in the Caribbean. Colonialism and its aftermath still have a huge impact on contemporary French and francophone culture and politics."

Dr Jane Hiddleston studied French and Russian at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, before completing her Masters and PhD in French at University College London. She is a specialist in francophone postcolonial literature and literary theory, and she has written two books: Reinventing Community: Identity and Difference in Late Twentieth-Century Philosophy and Literature in French, and Assia Djebar: Out of Algeria. She is currently working on a research project on the interaction between postcolonial and poststructuralist theory, and she is also writing a students' introduction to postcolonialism.

Dr Hiddleston teaches all areas of nineteenth and twentieth century literature to undergraduates, as well as offering prose and translation classes to first and final year students. She also teaches a Special Subject on Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, an Mst Option on Francophone Literature, and an Mst course in Literary Theory.