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Dr Roland-Francois Lack
Senior Lecturer
SELCS
Faculty of Arts & Humanities
- Joined UCL
- 1st Jan 1996
Research summary
Cinema and place (see my website: http://www.thecinetourist.net); French and Swiss film; nineteenth-century poetry and poetics.
Teaching summary
at MA level:
The French New Wave
Poetry of Place and Displacement (Mirrlees, Eliot, Sitwell, Césaire)
Advanced Translation
Undergraduate courses:
The Swiss New Wave: Cinema in French-Speaking Switzerland 1966-1980
Jean-Luc Godard: Histoire(s) du cinéma
French Film History: Spectacle and Melodrama 1919-1930
Nineteenth-Century French Literature
Introduction to French Film
European Art Cinema
London on Film
Education
- University College London
- Doctorate, Doctor of Philosophy | 1991
- University College London
- First Degree, Bachelor of Arts (Honours) | 1985
Biography
born in London: French mother, English father.
educated: UCL - BA in French 1981-1985; PhD 1985-1991
post-doctoral research fellow at the Institute of Romance Studies, London, 1991-1992; lecturer in French at the University of Sussex 1994-1996; lecturer and then senior lecturer in French, UCL, 1996 to the present