Prof Robert Lethbridge

Career: Fitzwilliam Coll Cambridge: fell 1973-94 (Leathersellers' fell 1973-78), life fell 1994-, tutor 1975-92 (sr tutor 1982-92), master 2005-; lectr in French Univ of Cambridge 1985-94 (asst lectr 1980-85), prof of French language and lit Univ of London 1995-2005 (emeritus prof 2005-); Royal Holloway Univ of London: head Dept of French 1995-97, dean Grad Sch 1997-98, vice-princ (academic) 1997-2002, visiting prof 2003-05; dir Univ of London Inst in Paris (formerly Br Inst in Paris) 2003-05; provost Gates Cambridge Tst 2010-; visiting prof: Univ of California at Santa Barbara 1986, Univ of Melbourne 2003; hon prof Queen Mary Univ of London 2003-05; memb Society of Dix-neuvièmistes (hon pres 2001-06), Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques (France)

Books and Publications: Maupassant: Pierre et Jean (1984), Zola and the Craft of Fiction (ed 1990), Artistic Relations, Literature and the Visual Arts in Nineteenth-Century France (ed 1994), editions of novels by Guy de Maupassant (2001) and by Emile Zola (1995, 2000, 2001), 50 essays in learned jls and collective works