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Queens' CollegeÌý Silver StreetÌý CAMBRIDGE Ìý CB3 9ET
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Born in Birmingham, Martin Crowley studied French and German at the University of Oxford, before pursuing an MA in Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham, and working for two years for the French publisher Larousse, as a bilingual dictionary editor. He then returned to Oxford, where he completed a DPhil in French, on the author and film-maker Marguerite Duras. After four years as Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Manchester, he came to °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼ in 2000. He has been a Visiting Research Scholar in the Department of Comparative Literature at New York University, and serves as general Editor of the journal French Studies.
Martin welcomes applications from potential MPhil and PhD students working on modern and contemporary thought and culture in the French-speaking world.
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- Modern and contemporary cultures of the French-speaking world
- Twentieth- and twenty-first-century French philosophy
- Critical theory
- Ethics and fiction
- Ecocriticism
- Testimony
- Sexuality, embodiment, and representation
- Ontologies of coexistence
- Intersections of the aesthetic, the philosophical, and the political
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Martin is currently working on a book project, entitledÌýOpaque Strategies: Culture and Conflict in Contemporary France, which uses the figure of opacity to examine the relation between social conflict and forms of cultural production in contemporary France.
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As author:Accidental Agents: Ecological Politics beyond the Human (Columbia University Press, 2022)
L'Homme sans: Politiques de la finitudeÌý(Lignes, 2009; afterword by Jean-Luc Nancy)
Robert Antelme: L’humanité irréductible (Lignes, 2004)
Robert Antelme: Humanity, Community, Testimony (Legenda, 2003)
Duras, Writing and the EthicalÌý(Oxford University Press, 2000)
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As co-author:The New Pornographies: Explicit Sex in Recent French Fiction and FilmÌý(Manchester University Press, 2007)
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As editor:Contact! The Art of TouchÌý(L'Esprit Créateur, 2007)
Dying Words: The Last Moments of Writers and PhilosophersÌý(Rodopi, 2000)
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As co-editor:Economies of ExistenceÌý(Diacritics, 2020; with Emily Apter)
Quels matérialismes? Pour quels mondes?Ìý(Lignes, 2016; with Michel Surya)
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