Nick Harrison studied at the University of Cambridge, worked as a lecturer in Tunis, Quebec and Paris, and taught at Cambridge and UCL before moving to King’s in 2005. He has carried out and supervised research in diverse areas including modern literature, film and thought in French; postcolonial and francophone literature, especially of and about the Maghreb; literary theory; comparative literature; and intellectual and cultural history, particularly in relation to censorship and freedom of expression. Authors on whose work he has written include Djebar, Chraïbi, Camus, Conrad, Fanon, Said, Sade, Breton, Cixous and Freud.
Current interests include Djebar, and notions of the literary; cultural memory and the ‘dark continent’; representations and ‘echoes’ of the Algerian war of independence; and a larger project on colonial education, with particular emphasis on issues around secularism and literary education.
He is an Advisory Editor for Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Theory, and is currently one of the editors of Comparative Literature (the journal of the American Comparative Literature Association) and of Research Monographs in French Studies (Legenda / MHRA).
Keywords: modern literature, film, post-colonial literature, francophone literature, Maghreb, literary theory, comparative literature, cultural history, censorship, freedom of expression
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