Jane Hiddleston

Professor Jane Hiddleston is a leading scholar in postcolonial and francophone literatures. Currently affiliated with the University of Oxford as an Official Fellow in French and Professor of Literatures in French, her work bridges literary theory, critical thought, and multilingualism. She specializes in North African and Caribbean francophone writing, engaging deeply with themes of decolonization, identity, and migration.

• Education: BA in French and Russian (Cambridge), PhD in French (University College London)
• Positions: Junior Research Fellow (Cambridge), Lecturer (Warwick), Professor (Oxford)

Her research focuses on Assia Djebar, Aimé Césaire, and other decolonial thinkers. Recent work includes a study of Frantz Fanon's literary engagement and co-editorship of volumes on multilingual literature and Abdelkébir Khatibi. Publications span monographs and collaborations with scholars like Khalid Lyamlahy and Wen-chin Ouyang.

Key trends in her work include analyzing postcolonial theory through literary form, exploring philosophical intersections, and advocating for world literature frameworks. Her AHRC-funded research on Creative Multilingualism underscores interdisciplinary methodologies.

Awards and Grants

• Junior Research Fellow, Christ’s College, Cambridge
• Principal Investigator, AHRC-funded Creative Multilingualism project (2016-2020)

Hiddleston supervises research projects on francophone literatures and teaches courses on race and representation, literary theory, and translation. She is currently working on an intellectual biography of Aimé Césaire for Polity’s Black Lives series.