Judith Still | |
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Born | 1958 (age 65–66) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University College London ( PhD) |
Thesis | The code of beneficence in the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau : a study of the precariousness of justice in relations between non-equals : with special reference to pudicity (1985) |
Influences | |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Nottingham |
Judith Mary Still FBA (born 1958) is Emeritus Professor of French and Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham. [1]
She has a PhD (1985) from University College London. Her thesis was The code of beneficence in the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau : a study of the precariousness of justice in relations between non-equals : with special reference to pudicity. [2]
Her research focuses on the 18th and 20th centuries, and "is informed by feminist and poststructuralist theory (in particular the work of Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray)". [1]
In 2018 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. [3] Commenting on her election, she said that she hoped to add to the Academy's diversity, as a woman and a critical theorist but also "in that I was first in my family to go to University, supported by a loving single mother and a State that gave me a full and unconditional grant throughout my studies". [4]
She is a former president of the Society for French Studies. [5]