Professor Hugues Azerad

Professor Hugues Azérad is Director of Studies in History and Modern Languages at Magdalene. He specialises in comparative literature, modernism, romanticism, aesthetics and postcolonial theory.

He is the author of L'Univers constellé de Proust, Joyce et Faulkner: le concept d'épiphanie dans l'esthétique du modernisme (Peter Lang, 2002), and has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature. His articles have appeared in French Studies, Dalhousie French Studies, Modern Language Review, Journal of Romance Studies, Irish Journal of French Studies, CLCWeb (Purdue University), New Comparison, and Cérédi, among others.

His book chapters feature in numerous edited volumes, including Joyce in Trieste (University Press of Florida, 2007), Romantic Border Crossings (Ashgate, 2008), Making Sense: For an Effective Aesthetics (Lang, 2011), American Creoles: The Francophone Caribbean and the American South (Liverpool University Press, 2012), Proust and the Visual (University of Wales Press, 2013), Thinking Poetry (Palgrave, 2013), Proust in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2013), The New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner (CUP, 2015), and Édouard Glissant, l’éclat et l’obscur (Presses Universitaires des Antilles, 2020).

He is co-editor (with Peter Collier) of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: A Critical Anthology (Cambridge University Press, 2010), and has co-edited several special issues and volumes, including:

• (with Emma Wagstaff, Michael G. Kelly, and Nina Parish) a double issue of French Forum, “Poetic Practice and the Practice of Poetics in French since 1945” (2012)

• Chantiers du poème. Prémisses et pratiques de la poésie moderne et contemporaine (Lang, 2013)

• (with Michael G. Kelly) a special issue of L’Esprit Créateur, “La Poésie à l’œuvre: Poetry, Philosophy, Politics” (2015)

• (with Loïc Céry, Sylvie Glissant, Dominique Aurélia, and Laura Carvigan-Cassin) Édouard Glissant et Le Discours antillais: La source et le delta (Éditions de l’Institut du Tout-Monde, 2020)

• (with Loïc Céry) Les Pédagogies d'Édouard Glissant (Éditions de l’Institut du Tout-Monde, 2023), available here

He is co-editor (with Marion Schmid) of the book series European Connections: Studies in Comparative Literature, Intermediality and Aesthetics (Peter Lang, Oxford), and serves as section editor for modern and contemporary French poetry and fiction for The Literary Encyclopedia.

He is currently a subject consultant for MyHE+, a platform providing supercurricular resources for school-aged students interested in extending their academic interests.

He received the CUSU Student-Led Teaching Award for Best Undergraduate Supervisor in Arts and Humanities in 2017.