Dr Ann Lewis
BA, M St. (Oxon), PhD (London)
Lecturer in French studies (18th-century literature and culture; text-and-image relations, especially illustration)
Co-convenor of the Birkbeck Eighteenth-Century Research Group
Deputy exam chair for the French sub-board
Contact details
Department of European Cultures and Languages
Birkbeck, University of London
43 Gordon Square
London WC1H 0PD
E-mail: a.lewis@bbk.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7631 6178
Profile
Dr Ann Lewis’s research and teaching interests are in the field of 18th-century French literature and culture and, in particular, the topic of sensibility, theories of reception and reader-response, and word and image relations (especially illustrations of 18th-century French fiction).
Her book Sensibility, Reading and Illustration: Spectacles and Signs in Graffigny, Marivaux and Rousseau was published by Legenda in July 2009, and her current research project, started during the tenure of her Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, focuses on the representation of the figure of the prostitute in 18th-century France, adopting an interdisciplinary perspective.
