Professor Marie-Chantal Killeen holds a dual affiliation at the University of Oxford: she is a Professor of French Literature within the Faculty of Medieval & Modern Languages and a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall. Her expertise spans multiple linguistic and cultural domains, including French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Modern Greek, Czech, Polish, Catalan, Galician, Yiddish, and Other Slavonic languages. Her research focuses on post-war French narrative fiction with particular emphasis on 20th- and 21st-century female authors like Marguerite Duras, contemporary Life writing, modern French theatre, and Quebecois literature and cinema. She explores texts that challenge interpretive frameworks, such as works featuring disembodied voices and slippery confessional genres. Her recent projects include analyzing ‘uncanny voices’ in post-1980 narratives and interrogating the Mea culpa genre's narrative reliability. Professor Killeen teaches the MSt Special Subject in Life Writing and contributes to the Key Questions core course. She has supervised graduate research on diverse topics: extreme contemporary novels, post-1968 autobiography, Holocaust literary responses, and critical studies of figures like Annie Ernaux and Sophie Calle. Her pedagogical work bridges literature from the 19th century to the present and connects French thought with literary theory. Her research themes reflect interdisciplinary engagement—contemporary French studies, gender/sexuality analysis, and visual/material culture exploration. No awards are explicitly mentioned, though her extensive publication record and supervisory roles highlight scholarly impact. She maintains affiliations with Lady Margaret Hall and the Faculty’s research initiatives, contributing to the academic community through teaching, supervision, and publication in journals like Modern Language Review and French Studies .
