British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Professor Leslie Hill

Professor of French Studies, University of Warwick

Year Elected: 2003

He has written penetrating critical studies of a series of difficult modern writers and novelists, including Marguérite Duras, Samuel Beckett, Maurice Blanchot, and Pierre Klossowski - writers whose deepest concerns relate to philosophy as well as to literature. He has also written on Flaubert, Raymond Roussel and Roland Barthes, and his interests include the French cinema.