Emma Wilson

Emma Wilson, (born 1967) is a British academic and writer, specialising in French literature and cinema. She is Professor of French Literature and the Visual Arts at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Corpus Christi College. Early life and education Emma Wilson is the daughter of novelist Jacqueline Wilson and her former husband, William Millar Wilson, a police officer. She was a scholarship student at Surbiton High School and then studied French and Latin as an undergraduate at Cambridge. She then stayed on to do a PhD in the French department. Her thesis was entitled The pain of the pleasure of the text: Tournier, reading and sexuality. Academic career Wilson then got a post as a university lecturer at Cambridge. She is a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and Professor of French Literature and the Visual Arts at the University of Cambridge. She was previously Reader in Contemporary French Literature and Film and head of Cambridge's Department of French. In 2022, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.