Dr Holly Langstaff
Teaching Fellow
Tel: TBC
Email: H dot Langstaff dot 1 at warwick dot ac dot uk
Room: 4.33 Humanities Building
Postal address: School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Humanities Building, University Road, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL
About
I came to the University of Warwick for my PhD on the twentieth-century writer Maurice Blanchot, which was supervised by Professor Leslie Hill. I have taught in the French department at Warwick since 2013.
I am responsible for the Widening Participation programme of the School of Modern Languages and Cultures. I work with MFL teachers in the local area to promote the study of languages to GCSE and A-Level.
Research interests
My PhD thesis examined the relationship between art and technology in the work of twentieth-century French writer Maurice Blanchot. I examined Blanchot's engagement with the question of techne in criticism and fiction over a fifty-year period, demonstrating that he is far from subscribing to the technophobia of probably the most influential thinker of technology, Martin Heidegger.
I am currently working on a new project which begins by examining some of the influences behind Blanchot's third and final novel Le Très-Haut.
Teaching
I am interested in modern and contemporary fiction, critical theory, and philosophy. Previously I have convened Modern French Thinkers, Modern Masterpieces, Aspects of French and German Literature.