Academic & Teaching staff

Dr Andy Stafford

Senior Lecturer

Dr Andy Stafford

0113 343 3498

Biography

BA, MA in Critical Theory, PhD (1995), University of Nottingham

Research interests: critical theory, especially the work of Roland Barthes; African and Caribbean literature, politics and historiography; the forme brève (essay, short-story, conte, poem), and its relations with photography; history and representation.

Member of the Editorial Board of Francophone Postcolonial Studies.

Forthcoming & recent publications

  • Roland Barthes, Notes des séminaires sur « Sarrasine » (Editions du Seuil, forthcoming); project supported by the British Academy and the Arts and Humanities Research Council
  • Photo-texts: Contemporary French Writing of the Photographic Image (Liverpool University Press, 2010)
  • 'Tricontinentalism in Recent Moroccan Intellectual History: The Case of Souffles', Journal of Transatlantic Studies 7:3 (2009), 218-32
  • (with Naaman Kessous) 'Responsables de la violence, ou Responsabilité de l'écriture? Le cas de "La nuit sauvage" de Mohammed Dib', in Naaman Kessous, Christine Margerrison, Andy Stafford and Guy Dugas (eds), Algérie. Vers le cinquantenaire de l'Indépendance. Regards critiques, (L'Harmattan, 2009), pp. 93-113 
  • '« Préparation du Romanesque » in Roland Barthes's Reading of Sarrasine', Paragraph 31:1 (2008), 95-108
  • 'Dialectics of Form(s) in Roland Barthes's Mythologies', Nottingham French Studies 47:2 (2008), 6-18
  • Roland Barthes, The Language of Fashion, trans. and ed. A. Stafford (Berg, 2006).
  • 'Non-pareille? The Modern Photo-Essay in French', in C. Forsdick & A. Stafford (eds), The Modern French Essay (2005).
  • 'The Politics and Poetics of Documentary in Alain Resnais's and Jean Cayrol's Nuit et Brouillard', Journal of Institute of Romance Studies (2003).
  • 'Frantz Fanon, Atlantic Theorist. Or: Decolonisation and Nation-State in Postcolonial Theory', in C. Forsdick & D. Murphy eds., Francophone Postcolonial Studies (2003).

Teaching interests

  • 'Black Atlantic' - undergraduate module on the Francophone African and Caribbean forme brève (short story, essay, poetry).
  • 'Camera Lucida' - undergraduate module on the French writing, theories and history of photography.