Nicholas White

Professor Nicholas White is a leading scholar at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, University of Cambridge. He specializes in 19th-century French literature, focusing on war, friendship, marriage, and family dynamics through cultural and literary history methodologies. His research includes the Franco-Prussian War and Commune (1870-71), with a forthcoming book on this topic supported by a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship. He has supervised numerous PhD theses on themes like the sublime, ballooning history, and conspiracy narratives.

• Key Roles: Former Chair of the Faculty (2008-11), Director of the Cambridge Master's program (2018-20), Syndic of the University Library (2015-21)
• Collaborations: Led the Cambridge-Paris Sciences & Lettres network on Zola, co-organized international symposia

Recent publications examine war literature, gendered social bonds, and postwar cultural identity. He has received the Scott Moncrieff Prize for translation and contributed to major journals like Romanic Review and Cahiers naturalistes.