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MA Hons (Edin.), Ph.D.(Edin.), Officier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques
BS8 1TE
Susan Harrow is Ashley Watkins Professor of French. She joined Bristol in 2007 from an established professorship at the University of Sheffield. Her research and teaching interests lie in the later-nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially poetry and the novel with a particular focus on the interrelation of literary modernism and visual culture. The author of four monographs, she published The Material, the Real and the Fractured Self: Subjectivity and Representation from Rimbaud to Réda (University of Toronto Press, 2004) and has recently published Colourworks: Chromatic Innovation in Modern French Poetry (2020 with Bloomsbury Academic Press: <https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/colourworks-9781350182202/>). Following Zola; La Curée (University of Glasgow, 1998), she published Zola. the Body Modern: Pressures and Prospects of Representation (Legenda, 2010). She is currently developing a project on epistolarity and the letters of selected French writers, supported by a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship. She is a Strategic Reviewer at AHRC and a member of the REF 2021 Sub-Panel for Modern Languages and Linguistics and an Interdisciplinary Advisor to the Sub-Panel. She served as President of the Society for French Studies (2010-12), the longest-established and largest association in French studies. In 2011 she was awarded the rank of Officier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques for services to French culture.
Increasingly, undergraduates are keen to extend their studies into Postgraduate work, with all the intellectual, personal and professional benefits this brings. Susan Harrow has supervised to successful completion PhDs including studies of French modernist poetry (Max Jacob); the significance of glass in c19th literature and culture; c19th representations of the Sahara in text and image; and has co-supervised a practice-based PhD on the translation of landscape writing. Recent and current PhD co-supervision includes studies of colour in the theatre of Lorca and epistolarity in Flaubert, Joyce, and Beckett. She would be delighted to hear from prospective postgraduates (that is, undergraduates at any stage) who are keen to pursue projects in the areas of later-nineteenth- and earlier-twentieth-century French literature and inter-disciplinary studies, possibly with a visual culture component. She is convenor of the MA (pathway) Visual Culture: Text and Image.
Her specialist Undergraduate units are all interdisciplinary in nature and involve narrative, poetry, visual culture, theatre and critical thought:
REF 2021 Sub-Panel Member and interdisciplinary research advisor, Higher Education Funding Council for England
1 Jan 2020 → 31 Dec 2021
AHRC Strategic Reviewer, Arts and Humanities Research Council
1 Jan 2017 → …
Curator, Selected Essays, MHRA Legenda
1 Jan 2017 → …
Research output: Book/Report › Authored book
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Harrow, Susan R (Recipient), 16 May 2011
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
Harrow, Susan R (Recipient), 29 Jun 2022
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
Susan R Harrow (Advisor)
Activity: Consultancy types › Appointments or secondments with industry or commerce
Christophe Fricker (Participant), Susan R Harrow (Participant), Adrienne M Mason (Participant), Carol M O'Sullivan (Participant) & Rosalind Harvey (Participant)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public talk, debate, discussion
Susan R Harrow (Keynote/plenary speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference