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Katherine Astbury is a Professor of French Studies at the University of Warwick, with a focus on the Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods. Her work bridges cultural productions of this era with prisoner-of-war studies, particularly examining French captives in Hampshire. She collaborates with English Heritage on projects like the Portchester Castle reinterpretation and co-produced the sound installation Les Murs Sont Témoins (2019). Currently, she works with charity SV2G St Vincent and the Grenadines Second Generation on educational materials about Caribbean revolutionaries.
- British Academy Small Grant (2003-04)
- AHRC-funded projects (2013-2017, 2016-17)
- Co-edited Napoleon's One Hundred Days and the Politics of Legitimacy (2018)
Her research spans literary history, melodrama, and women writers of the 18th/19th centuries, with notable publications on Prévost, Beaumarchais, Marmontel, and Sade. She has supervised PhD students on topics ranging from émigré novels to prisoner theatre, including Abigail Coppins' ongoing work on Caribbean women prisoners. Awards include the Warwick Teaching Excellence Award (2007) and Arts Faculty Public Engagement Prize (2014). Her 2012 monograph Narrative Responses to the Trauma of the French Revolution explores how writers processed revolutionary upheaval through literature.
