Michael Hugh Tempest Sheringham FBA (1948 – 21 January 2016) was

Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature The position of Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford was founded in 1918 shortly after the end of the First World War. Ferdinand Foch, or "Marshal Foch", was supreme commander of Allied forces from April 1918 o ...

at the University of Oxford from 2004 until his retirement in 2015. He had previously acted a lecturer at University of Kent and University of Ulster

Biography

Sheringham was born in Cairo on 2 June 1948. His father, John Guy Tempest Sheringham was a civil servant, and his mother, Yvette Agnès (née Habib) was a journalist and poet. The family returned to UK in the early 1950, and settled near Reading, where Sheringham attended Wallingford County Grammar School. He then studied at University of Kent between 1966 and 1970. On 20 September 1974, Sheringham married Priscilla Monique (Cilla) Duhamel, whom he had met at the University of Kent, and they had two children together. Around the same time as his marriage, he gained his first teaching role at University of Ulster. The following year he left Northern Ireland and returned to the University of Kent, where he became a lecturer. Sheringham taught at the University of Kent (where he was Professor of French Literature from 1992 to 1995) and at

Royal Holloway, University of London Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL), formally incorporated as Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, is a public research university and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It has six schools, 21 academic departm ...

(where he was Professor of French from 1995 to 2004). He was appointed a

Fellow of the British Academy Fellowship of the British Academy (FBA) is an award granted by the British Academy to leading academics for their distinction in the humanities and social sciences. The categories are: # Fellows – scholars resident in the United Kingdom # C ...

in 2010.

at the University of Oxford from 2004 until his retirement in 2015. He was also a Fellow of

All Souls College, Oxford All Souls College (official name: College of the Souls of All the Faithful Departed) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Unique to All Souls, all of its members automatically become fellows (i.e., full members of t ...

. Sheringham died at home in Oxford from prostate cancer on 21 January 2016.

References

External links

Michael Sheringham's page at the University of Oxford
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sheringham, Michael 2016 deaths 1948 births English literary critics Literary critics of French Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford Marshal Foch Professors of French Literature Academics of the University of Kent Academics of Royal Holloway, University of London Fellows of the British Academy Officiers of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques Historians of French literature Alumni of the University of Kent