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Professor Patrick ffrench is a leading scholar in 20th-century French literature and film theory, affiliated with King's College London's Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures within the Faculty of Arts & Humanities. He holds the rank of Professor of French and has been a faculty member since 1999.
Education: PhD from University College London (1993), focusing on the journal Tel Quel under Annette Lavers. Postdoctoral research as a British Academy Fellow at UCL on Georges Bataille's intellectual legacy.
Research focuses on French literature, critical theory, psychoanalysis, and cinema, with notable works on Proust, Barthes, Bataille, and Deleuze. Recent projects include Roland Barthes and Film (2019) and Thinking Cinema with Proust (2018). Active in interdisciplinary research groups such as the Centre for the Humanities and Health and the Visual Culture network.
Teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses on French literature, film, and critical theory. Engaged in public discourse on French intellectual history and hosts academic events like the French & Digital Humanities Seminar.
Grants include British Academy-funded projects on Lacanian philosophy, pragmatic genealogies of concepts, and technological change in French thought. Supervises PhD students in areas like Proustian semiotics, Barthesian aesthetics, and psychoanalytic theory.
