Leslie Hill is professor of French at the University of Warwick. He has written several influential books on French writers and philosophers including

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. Hill was elected to a fellowship of the British Academy in 2003. Accessed 12 September 2008

Book publications

* ''Blanchot politique: Sur une reflexion jamais interrompue'' (Geneva: Éditions Furor, 2020) * ''Nancy, Blanchot: A Serious Controversy'' (London, Rowman & Littlefield, 2018) * ''Maurice Blanchot and Fragmentary Writing: A Change of Epoch'' (London, Continuum, 2012) * ''Radical Indecision: Barthes, Blanchot, Derrida, and the Future of Criticism'' (Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 2010) * ''The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Derrida'' (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007) * ''Bataille, Klossowski, Blanchot: Writing at the Limit'' (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001) * ''Blanchot: Extreme Contemporary'' (London, Routledge, 1997) * ''Marguerite Duras: Apocalyptic Desires'' (London, Routledge, 1993) * ''Beckett's Fiction: In Different Words'' (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990)

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Academics of the University of Warwick English literary critics Literary critics of French 1949 births Living people Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Fellows of the British Academy {{UK-academic-bio-stub