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Hugues Azérad specialises in comparative literature, modernisms, romanticism, aesthetics and postcolonial theory. He is the co-editor (with Peter Collier) of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: A Critical Anthology (Cambridge University Press, 2010); (with Emma Wagstaff, Michael G. Kelly and Nina Parish) of a double issue of FrenchForum "Poetic Practice and the Practice of Poetics in French since 1945", 2012; of Chantiers du poème. Prémisses et pratiques de la poésie moderne et contemporaine (Lang, 2013) and (with Michael G. Kelly) of a special issue of L’Esprit Créateur, La Poésie à l’œuvre: Poetry, Philosophy, Politics. He is the author of L'Univers constellé de Proust, Joyce et Faulkner: le concept d'épiphanie dans l'esthétique du modernisme (Lang, 2002); of articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature in, among others, Dalhousie French Studies, Modern Language Review, Journal of Romance Studies, Irish Journal of French Studies, CLC WEB (Purdue University), New Comparison, Cérédi; of chapters in, among others, Joyce in Trieste (U. Press of Florida, 2007); Romantic Border Crossings (Ashgate, 2008); Making Sense: For an Effective Aesthetics (Lang, 2011); American Creoles: The Francophone Caribbean and the American South (Liverpool UP, 2012); Proust and the Visual (UP Wales, 2013); Thinking Poetry (Palgrave, 2013); Proust in Context (CUP, 2013); New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner (CUP, 2015). He is co-editor (with Marion Schmid) for book series European Connections: Studies in Comparative Literature, Intermediality and Aesthetics (Peter Lang, Oxford) and is the editor of the modern and contemporary French poetry and fiction sections of The Literary Encyclopedia. He is currently subject consultant for www.myheplus.com, aimed at providing challenging resources to academically able Year 12 students.