BRITTON, Celia (Margaret) 1946-

PERSONAL: Born March 20, 1946, in Middlesex, England; daughter of James Nimmo (a professor of education) and Jessie Muriel (a schoolteacher; maiden name, Robertson) Britton; companion of Lyle Conquest (a schoolteacher). Ethnicity: "White." Education: Cambridge University, degree, 1969, postgraduate diploma in linguistics, 1970; University of Essex, Ph.D., 1973. Politics: Socialist. Religion: "Atheist." Hobbies and other interests: Travel, cinema, cooking.

ADDRESSES: Home—13 Murray Pl., Stonehaven AB39 2GG, Scotland. Office—Department of French, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UB, Scotland. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Educator and author. King's College, London, London, England, lecturer in French, 1972-74; University of Reading, Reading, England, lecturer in French, 1974-91; University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, professor of French, 1991—.

MEMBER: British Academy (fellow), Society for French Studies (president, 1996-98), Association for University Professors and Heads of French.

WRITINGS:

Claude Simon: Writing the Visible, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1987.

The Nouveau Roman: Fiction, Theory, and Politics, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1992.

(Editor) Claude Simon, Longman (New York, NY), 1993.

Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory: Strategies of Language and Resistance, University of Virginia Press (Charlottesville, VA), 1999.

Race and the Unconscious: Freudianism in French-Caribbean Thought, Legend: European Humanities Research Centre (Oxford, England), 2002.

Member of editorial board, French Studies. Contributor to books, including Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume 8, 1995.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Research on patterns of community in French Caribbean fiction.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Choice, March, 1993, D. O'Connell, review of The Nouveau Roman: Fiction, Theory, and Politics, p. 1154; December, 1999, A. L. McLeod, review of Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory: Strategies of Language and Resistance, p. 714.

Comparative Literature, fall, 1990, Valerie Budig, review of Claude Simon: Writing the Visible, p. 375.

French Review, May, 2000, Marie-Agnes Sourieau, review of Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory, p. 1211.

French Studies, July, 1989, Anthony Cheal Pugh, review of Claude Simon: Writing the Visible, p. 360; April, 1994, Ann Jefferson, review of The Nouveau Roman, p. 238; July, 1995, John Fletcher, review of Claude Simon, p. 359; January, 2001, Sam Haigh, review of Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory, p. 131.

Journal of Modern Literature, fall-winter, 1989, Morton P. Levitt, review of Claude Simon: Writing the Visible, p. 412.

Modern Fiction Studies, summer, 2000, Kristen Mahlis, review of Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory, p. 553.

Modern Language Review, July, 1989, Jean H. Duffy, review of Claude Simon: Writing the Visible, p. 745; October, 1994, Jean H. Duffy, review of Claude Simon, p. 1023.

Times Literary Supplement, August 20, 1993, review of Claude Simon, p. 28.

World Literature Today, winter, 2000, Richard Watts review of Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory, p. 226.