Judith Still


Judith Mary Still is Professor of French and Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham, England.
She has a PhD from University College, London. Her thesis was The code of beneficence in the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau : a study of the precariousness of justice in relations between non-equals : with special reference to pudicity.
Her research focuses on the 18th and 20th centuries, and "is informed by feminist and poststructuralist theory ".
In 2018 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Commenting on this she said that she hoped to add to the Academy's diversity, as a woman and a critical theorist but also "in that I was first in my family to go to University, supported by a loving single mother and a State that gave me a full and unconditional grant throughout my studies".
she is President of the Society for French Studies.

Selected publications