Maria C. Scott

• Associate Professor of French Literature and Thought, University of Exeter

My research focuses on French literature, especially nineteenth-century novels and prose poetry. I am particularly interested in how reading literature activates (and deactivates) our empathy. My most recent book is Empathy and the Strangeness of Fiction: Readings in French Realism (Edinburgh University Press, 2020).

• 2020–present Associate Professor, University of Exeter
• 2018–2020 Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter
• 2013–2018 Lecturer, University of Exeter
• 2002–2011 Lecturer, University of Galway
• 2000–2002 Lecturer, University College Dublin

• 2000 Trinity College Dublin, PhD

President of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes

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