
Magdalene College Ƶ CB3 0AG
Hugues Azérad specialises in comparative literature, modernisms, romanticism, aesthetics and postcolonial theory.
He is the author ofL'Univers constellé de Proust, Joyce et Faulkner: le concept d'épiphanie dans l'esthétique du modernisme(Lang, 2002); of articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature in, among others,French Studies,Dalhousie French Studies,Modern Language Review,Journal of Romance Studies,Irish Journal of French Studies,(Purdue University),New Comparison,; of chapters in, among others,Joyce in Trieste(U. Press of Florida, 2007);Romantic Border Crossings(Ashgate, 2008);MakingSense: For an Effective Aesthetics(Lang, 2011);American Creoles: The Francophone Caribbean and the American South(Liverpool UP, 2012);Proust and the Visual(UP Wales, 2013);Thinking Poetry(Palgrave, 2013);Proust in Context(CUP, 2013);New Ƶ Companion to William Faulkner(CUP, 2015);Édouard Glissant, l’éclat et l’obscur, (Presses universitaires des Antilles, 2020).
He is the co-editor (with Peter Collier) ofTwentieth-Century French Poetry:A Critical Anthology(Ƶ University Press, 2010); (with Emma Wagstaff, Michael G. Kelly and Nina Parish) of adouble issue ofFrench Forum,"Poetic Practice and the Practice of Poetics in French since 1945” (2012), and ofChantiers du poème. Prémisses et pratiques de la poésie moderne et contemporaine(Lang,2013); (with Michael G. Kelly) of a special issue ofL’Esprit Créateur,"La Poésie à l’œuvre: Poetry, Philosophy, Politics” (2015);(with Loïc Céry, Sylvie Glissant, Dominique Aurélia and Laura Carvigan-Cassin) of(Editions de l’Institut du Tout-Monde, 2020);(with Loïc Céry) ofLes Pédagogies d'Édouard Glissant(Éditions de l'Institut du Tout-Monde, 2023). 330 pp.
He is co-editor (with Marion Schmid) for the book seriesEuropean Connections: Studies in Comparative Literature,(Peter Lang, Oxford)and the editor of the modern and contemporaryFrench poetry and fiction sections of
He is currently subject consultant for, aimed at providing supercurricular resources to school-aged students looking to go beyond the school curriculum and discover their passion for a subject.
In 2010, he co-organized an international conference "", held in London and Ƶ.
In 2013, he co-organized (with Michael G. Kelly) a, which is part of the AHRC Poetry network.
In 2020, he organised a study-day on Édouard Glissant andLe Discours antillais.
He was the 2017 winner of Best Undergraduate Supervisor Award (Arts and Humanities) (CUSU Student-Led Teaching Awards). In 2019, he was short-listed for the same award.
Nineteenth-century to twenty-first-century French and Francophone literature, culture, and thought.
Modernisms, world literature, poetry, world cinema.
Visual culture.
Language (culture and grammar modules, documentaries and translation, Outreach workshops).
MPhil in European Literature and Culture (ELAC) (MMLL/ English Faculty).
PhD supervision in French and comparative literature.
Comparative literature (Nerval, Proust, Reverdy, Joyce, Faulkner, Bonnefoy, Glissant, Césaire, Benjamin, Adorno, Rancière, Ricœur, Wynter).
Modernisms, Caribbean modernisms, world literature, aesthetics, postcolonial theory, utopian studies, eco-criticism.
Visual culture and poetry.
He currently works on a book about Glissant, politics, aesthetics and literary theory.
Édouard Glissant and Félix Guattari; Caribbean/Planetary Modernisms; Aesthetics/politics of the image in world cinema.
(selection):
“Ę”, in special issue of Contemporary French & Francophone Studies: SITES, Caribbean Generations, ed. by Maeve McCusker, Laura Kennedy, and Martin Munro (Summer 2024), 426-444.
“” (with Marion Schmid), in Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, 47.2 (Spring 2024), 8-19.
“Apprendre avec Édouard Glissant: Pour une pédagogie de l'errance”, in Pédagogies d'Édouard Glissant, ed. Hugues Azérad and Loïc Céry (Éditions de l'Institut du Tout-Monde, 2023), 45-69.
,French Studies, Volume 74, Issue 3, July 2020, 420-437.
"Quand le 'cri du monde devient parole'.Relire 'À partir du cri' accompagné de Sylvia Wynter,d’Edward Kamau Brathwaite et de Jacques Coursil’, inÉdouard Glissant et le Discours antillais. La source et le delta, Editions du Tout-Monde, 2020, 431-451.
"”,TRANS, 25 (2020)
“”,Dalhousie French Studies, 113 (2019), 111-122.
“”,Irish Journal of French Studies, 17 (2017), 95-124.
“”,L’Esprit créateur, 55-1 (2015), 152-66.