Department of French

Department of French

   

Laura Kirkley is a Research Fellow in French whose comparative approach also encompasses English Literature. Special interests include French and English women's writing from the eighteenth century to the present day, feminist theory and literary and cultural translation theory. Laura is editing a new edition of Isabelle de Montolieu's novel Caroline de Lichtfield and writing a monograph entitled Sojourner in a Strange Land: the Revolutionary Cosmopolitanism of Mary Wollstonecraft, which redefines Wollstonecraft as a multilingual cosmopolitan influenced by European cultural and literary exchange and French Revolutionary politics.