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Dr Simon Kemp is an Associate Professor of French at the University of Oxford, affiliated with Somerville College and the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages. He holds a University Teaching Award for excellence in undergraduate instruction and specializes in 20th-21st century French novels, narrative theory, and crime fiction pastiche. His research explores representations of consciousness in literature and film, with a current focus on an academic trilogy on consciousness theories.
Education: B.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. His teaching focuses on post-1800 French literature and advanced translation, convening the Paper XII special subject. He supervises graduate students in French thought, women's writing, and translation theory.
Outreach roles include Admissions Director for Modern Languages and coordinator of the Opportunity Oxford humanities bridging program. He maintains the Adventures on the Bookshelf outreach blog for prospective students.
Publications include Writing the Mind (2017), French Fiction into the Twenty-First Century (2010), and over 30 articles on topics ranging from Proustian memory to cognitive narratology. His work bridges literary criticism with philosophy, neuroscience, and interdisciplinary theory.
