Michael Worton, CBE, is Emeritus Professor of Arts and was Vice-Provost and Fielden Professor of French Language and Literature at University College London. He has published extensively on contemporary French writers, with two books on Michel Tournier, and co-edited Intertextuality (1990), Textuality and Sexuality (1993), Women’s Writing in Contemporary France (2003), National Healths: Gender, Sexuality and Health in a Cross-Cultural Context (2004), Liberating Learning (2010) and French Studies in and for the 21st Century (2011). The second volume in the Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets series, The Dawn Breakers by René Char, is introduced and translated by him.
He was a founding member of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, and is a member of the Board of the Programme of Artistic Research of the Austrian Research Council (FWF). He is a Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur, an Officier of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques, was awarded the Medal of Honoured Worker in Higher Education by the Republic of Kazakhstan, and was the first recipient of the British Academy President’s Medal.
