Emma Wilson, was born on 1967 and is a British academic and writer, specialising in French literature and cinema.
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Emma Wilson is Professor of French Literature and the Visual Arts at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Corpus Christi College.
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Emma Wilson is the daughter of novelist Jacqueline Wilson and her former husband, William Millar Wilson, a police officer.
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Emma Wilson was a scholarship student at Surbiton High School and then studied French and Latin as an undergraduate at Cambridge.
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Emma Wilson then stayed on to do a PhD in the French department.
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Emma Wilson is a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and Professor of French Literature and the Visual Arts at the University of Cambridge.
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Emma Wilson was previously Reader in Contemporary French Literature and Film and head of Cambridge's Department of French.
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Emma Wilson's published work includes book studies of Alain Resnais and Krzysztof Kieslowski as well as specific work on writers such as Marcel Proust, Marguerite Duras, Helene Cixous and Michel Tournier.
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Emma Wilson argues for the potential for change in the reader's identity through reading.
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On 6 May 2009, Emma Wilson was awarded an Ordre des Palmes academiques Chevalier medal by the French Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Maurice Gourdault-Montagne.