Helena Duffy

Helena Duffy is a Professor of French at the University of Wroclaw (since 2008, on leave 2016–2021). She holds a Marie-Curie Individual Fellowship (2016–2018) and the Fernandes Fellowship (2022). Her research focuses on Postmodernism, Holocaust literature and cinema, French comparative literature, and Posthumanism with ecocritical and human-animal studies angles.

Key academic roles include:

• Collegium Researcher, University of Turku, Finland (2019–2021)
• Teaching Fellow in French and Comparative Literature, Royal Holloway, University of London (2017–2019)
• Marie-Curie Research Fellow, Royal Holloway (2016–2018)

Her honors include multiple Research Excellence Awards from the University of Wroclaw (2011, 2021–2023) and a Higher Education Academy Fellowship (UK).

She leads the long-running study circle 'Narrative and Violence' (2000–2022) and reviews for journals like Journal of Holocaust Studies and presses like Cornell UP. Her work bridges literary analysis with ethical and historical inquiry.