Personal Chair: Marion Schmid

Marion Schmid has been made a Personal Chair in French Literature and Film.

She is a graduate of the Sorbonne Nouvelle and the University of Cambridge, and is a former Junior Research Fellow at Christ’s College, Cambridge.

She joined the French section at Edinburgh in 1998.

She has held a visiting post at the Université François-Rabelais in 2003 and was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in 2005 to work on a project on the influence of the Decadent movement on Marcel Proust.

She is a member of the international Proust research group at L'Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes in Paris and British Correspondent for the ‘Revue d’histoire littéraire de la France’.

She is also a member of the editorial board of French Studies, of the advisory board for the monograph series Recherches proustiennes and of the Academic Council for the Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate.

Her main research interests lie in the interface between literature and other media, in particular the problem of literary adaptation to the screen and the stage, in European cinema as well as in Decadence and the fin-de-siècle.

She is the author of Chantal Akerman (2010), Proust dans la décadence (2008), Proust at the Movies (2005, co-authored with Martine Beugnet) and Processes of Literary Creation: Flaubert and Proust (1998).