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Welcome to French at Kent
The Department of French is proud to offer an exciting range of postgraduate and undergraduate degrees and a unique set of international exchange programmes. You may choose from a wide selection of French modules and you may focus your studies in those areas of language, literature, culture and society that you find most stimulating. We welcome enquiries from prospective students. French at Kent has been rated as one of the top seven departments in the UK for the quality of its research activity. The facilities and resources we offer are varied and extensive and include an excellent research library, a state-of-the-art computer network, a brand new Media Centre, live satellite TV viewing for individuals or groups, personal off-air video recording facilities, an IT (CALL) lab and self-access facilities. We pride ourselves on being a friendly department, where students are treated as individuals and where the emphasis is on small-group teaching.
Our proximity to the Channel ports and Ashford International Station means you can be in France or Belgium in under two hours and London is less than an hour away. There are many French-speaking students on campus, so you have an excellent chance to immerse yourself in the language. The University of Kent at Paris has now been launched.
Académie FrançaiseThe pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. |
André BretonWriter and poet. Best known as the principal founder of Surrealism. |
Jean-Luc GodardFrench and Swiss filmmaker. One of the founding members of the Nouvelle Vague. |
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Denis DiderotPhilosopher, art critic and writer. A prominent figure during the Enlightenment. Best known for serving as chief editor of and contributor to the creation of the Encyclopédie. |
Édouard ManetOne of the first nineteenth century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. |
Assia DjebarAlgerian novelist, translator and filmmaker. Most of her works deal with obstacles faced by women. Djebar is considered to be one of North Africa's pre-eminent and most influential writers. |
Marcel ProustFrench novelist, critic and essayist best known for his monumental À la recherche du temps perdu, which was published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927. |
Charles Baudelaire19th century French poet, critic, and translator. A controversial figure in his lifetime, Baudelaire's name has become a byword for literary and artistic decadence. |
Tour EiffelThe 19th century iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris that has become both a global icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world. |
The Department of French News
Contemporary Women’s Representations of Wounded Bodies and Minds
18th -19th November 2011
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James Fowler, The Libertine's Nemesis: The Prude in Clarissa and the 'roman libertin' (Legenda)
April 2011
What is the role of the prude in the roman libertin? James Fowler argues that in the most famous novels of the genre (by Richardson, Crébillon fils, Laclos and Sade) the prude is not the libertine's victim but an equal and opposite force working against him, and that ultimately she brings retribution for his social, erotic and philosophical presumption. Read more...
James Fowler, New Essays on Diderot (CUP)
April 2011
The great eighteenth-century French thinker Denis Diderot (1713–1784) once compared himself to a weathervane, by which he meant that his mind was in constant motion. In an extraordinarily diverse career he produced novels, plays, art criticism, works of philosophy and poetics, and also reflected on music and opera. Read more...
Thomas Baldwin, The Picture as Spectre in Diderot, Proust and Deleuze (Legenda)
April 2011
The possibility of ekphrasis, the verbal representation of visual imagery, is fundamental to all writing about art, be it art criticism, theory or a passage in a novel. But there is no consensus concerning how such representation works. Read more...
University of Kent at Paris becoming an increasingly popular destination for postgraduate students
22 February 2011
Less than two years after it was launched, the University of Kent at Paris (UKP) is becoming an increasingly popular destination for postgraduate students from around the world. Read more...