Rebecca Sugden

Dr Rebecca Sugden is a Lecturer and Fellow in French at Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge, specializing in nineteenth-century French literature and visual culture. She is affiliated with the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, where she teaches courses such as Fr1 – Introduction to French Literature, FrB2 – Translation from French, and MPhil in European, Latin American and Comparative Literatures and Cultures – Core Course in Critical Theory. Her research focuses on the interplay between narrative fiction and conspiracy thinking in July Monarchy France (1830-48) and cultural histories of simplicity in the nineteenth century.

• Research Fellow, Gonville & Caius College (2018-2020)
• CRASSH Early Career Fellowship (2022-23) for her next project

Her work interrogates the dialectic between 'surface' and 'depth' reading, literary theory, and the history of French thought. Awards include the 2019 Larry Schehr Memorial Award, George Sand Association Memorial Prize, and Society of Dix-Neuviémistes Publication Prize. She supervises Year Abroad Projects, Optional Dissertations, and MPhil essays on nineteenth-century French literature.

• 2019: Publication Prize for 'Terre(ur): Reading the Landscape of Conspiracy in Balzac’s Une ténébreuse affaire'
• 2018: Postgraduate Prize for 'Cette mystérieuse Révolution: George Sand’s Secret History of 1789'
• 2016: Naomi Schor Memorial Award for 'Terre(ur): Reading the Landscape of Conspiracy in Balzac’s Une ténébreuse affaire'