Teaching
Having taught extensively and diversely in the field of French literature(s), Prof Hutton now teaches on a broad range of Comparative Literature modules. These include: 20th/21st Century Political Drama; Good and Evil; Literature and the Bible; The Short Story; core modules on theories and practices of Comparative Literature. The most recent additions to her teaching include China Miéville and fanfiction (both as part of the Short Story module), translations of the Odyssey, and new Masters level modules emphasising practice and new readings in Comparative Literature.
Research areas
Professor Hutton has published on a wide range of contemporary French fiction and on WWII narratives (both testimonial texts and works of crime fiction). Her current research interests include: Contemporary—especially post-2000, but there are many definition of 'contemporary'—literatures; Theories and practices of '(the) contemporary'; (Contemporary) comparative projects; Practices and theories of interdisciplinarity; Metaphors used in academic disciplines.
She is a member of the Academia Europaea.
Founder and director of the Modern Languages Writers in Residence programme:
https://modlangswritersinresidence.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/
P.I. of the Leverhulme International Network for Contemporary Studies (2015-19):
https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/lincs/
Selected publications
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Open access
Reflections on the 'trans' in Jhumpa Lahiri's In Other Words (In altre parole)
Hutton, M.-A., 2 Nov 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Italian Studies. Latest Articles, 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Putting metaphor centre stage: a case study of Alison Landsberg's 'Prosthetic Memory'
Hutton, M.-A., 5 Aug 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Memory Studies. OnlineFirst, 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Figuring the guide in Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘Interpreter of maladies’, R.K. Narayan’s The guide and E. M. Forster’s A passage to India
Hutton, M.-A., 5 Mar 2020, In: Modern Languages Open. 2020, 1, p. 1-14 14 p., 4.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Introduction: a literary studies/games studies conversation
Hutton, M.-A. & Barr, M., 3 Nov 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Games and Culture. Online First, 1555412019884461.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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On writing a literary history of the Contemporary, or, what is, or was, 'the Contemporary' and should we keep calling it that?
Hutton, M. A., 1 Aug 2018, Berlin: Sternberg Press. 44 p. (Contemporary condition; vol. 8)Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Plato, new media technologies, and the contemporary novel
Hutton, M.-A., 14 Mar 2018, In: Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal. 51, 1, p. 179-195Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Shelving books? Representations of the library in contemporary texts
Hutton, M.-A., 15 May 2017, In: Comparative Critical Studies. 14, 1, p. 7-27Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Janus and the janissary: reading into Camus' 'La chute' and Hamid's The reluctant fundamentalist
Hutton, M. A., 1 Mar 2016, In: Comparative Literature. 68, 1, p. 59-74Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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French Crime Fiction 1945-2005: Investigating World War II
Hutton, M. A., 2013, Ashgate. 222 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Readings in Twenty-First-Century European Literatures
Gratzke, M. (Editor), Hutton, M. A. (Editor) & Whitehead, C. E. (Editor), May 2013, Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter Lang. 456 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book