Robert Lethbridge

Professor Robert Lethbridge has been Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University since 3 October 2005. He is Emeritus Professor of French Language and Literature in the University of London. His current research and postgraduate teaching is now in association with Cambridge's Department of French, where he was a University Lecturer until 1994. His work is focused on late nineteenth-century France and, in particular, the relationship between literature and the visual arts in that period. He is Hon. President of the Society of Dix-neuvièmistes. He was made "Chevalier des Palmes académiques" in 1998 for services to French culture and scholarship.

CV

*University of Kent at Canterbury (B.A., 1969)
*McMaster University (M.A., 1970)
*St John's College, Cambridge (Ph. D., 1975).
*Leathersellers' Teaching Fellow in French at Fitzwilliam College
*Senior Tutor at Fitzwilliam College (1982-92)
*Chair of French Language and Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London (1994) where he was successively Head of Department, Dean of the Graduate School and Vice-Principal.
*Life Fellow of Fitzwilliam College since 1994.
*He has held Visiting Professorships at the University of California at Santa Barbara and at the University of Melbourne.
*He has a son (Jonathan) and a daughter (Tamsin).

Bibliography

*Lethbridge, Robert. "Zola: The History of Capitalism". "French Studies", Vol.57, No 3, July 2003, pp. 410-411