The French Section is delighted to announce that Professor Emma Wilson has been elected as Fellow of the British Academy.

Emma Wilson researches contemporary visual culture, modern French literature and gender. She has written on contemporary women filmmakers in France, along with the uses of cinema to respond to loss and pain in her book Love, Mortality and the Moving Image. Her book on filmmaker Céline Sciamma was published last year. 

Many congratulations to Professor Wilson for this outstanding achievement.

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Five Cambridge academics elected to the British Academy in 2022