Prof Charles Forsdick BA (Oxford), PhD (Lancaster), FBA, MAE

James Barrow Professor of French School of Histories, Languages and Cultures

Research

Research Grants

Representing the BUMIDOM: French Caribbean Migration in Literature and Culture

LEVERHULME TRUST (UK)

October 2020 - July 2023

The Culture of Spanish Verse in the Late Middle Ages

LEVERHULME TRUST (UK)

January 2011 - November 2013

The Antislavery Knowledge Network: Community-Led Strategies for Creative and Heritage-Based Interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa

ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL

October 2017 - March 2022

Translating Cultures leadership fellowship (Phase II)

ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL

September 2015 - March 2021

‘Dark tourism’ in comparative perspective: sites of suffering, sites of memory

ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL

March 2016 - February 2018

1001 Re-tellings: Emily Ruete’s Memoiren einer arabischen Prinzessin in a literary context

LEVERHULME TRUST (UK)

October 2011 - September 2012

Toussaint Louverture as transnational figure: representations of the Haitian revolutionary in world literature and history.

BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)

February 2005 - July 2005

New Approaches to Twentieth-Century Travel Literature in France.

ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL

March 2001 - September 2003

International colloquium for 20th/21st century French studies: 'French in/and other disciplines'.

BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)

April 2002 - May 2002

The travelling revolutionary: twentieth-century translations of Toussaint Louverture.

BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)

June 2004

Toussaint Louverture as transnational figure: representations of the Haitian revolutionary in world literature and history.

BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)

September 2004 - September 2005

Translating Cultures leadership fellowship

ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL

September 2012 - August 2015

Exoticism, hybridity and the persistence of Polynesia.

BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)

March 2003

Critical edition of codex MP4

DISCANTUS MORE HISPANO SL (SPAIN)

January 2012 - May 2012

Representations of India in French texts 1754-1815.

LEVERHULME TRUST (UK)

September 2005 - August 2007

'The Bloody Writing is for ever torn': Domestic and International Consequences of the First Governmental Efforts to Abolish the Atlantic Slave Trade

BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)

August 2007

Forbidden Journeys: The Travel Writing of Ella Maillart

BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)

April 2007 - December 2007

'Descendre dans l'intraduisible, en eprouver la secousse': Bouvier and Barthes in China and Japan.

BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)

July 2005

Phillip Leverhulme Prize

LEVERHULME TRUST (UK)

October 2006 - September 2009

The twentieth-century review in French.

BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)

June 2003

Exoticism: from theory to practice - Victor Segalen's Essai sur l'exotisme and Equipée.

ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL

January 2006 - May 2006