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DIANA HOLMES is Professor of French at the University of Leeds, where she teaches 20th/21st century French literature and film. She has published widely on women‘s writing in France from the late 19th to the 21st centuries, including monographs on Colette (1991), French Women Writers 1848-1994 (1996), Rachilde –Decadence Gender and the Woman Writer (2001), Romance and Readership in Twentieth-Century France: Love Stories (2006). She co-edited (with Carrie Tarr) A‘Belle Epoque‘? Women in French Society and Culture 1890-1914 (2005) and (with John Gaffney) Stardom in Postwar France (2007). Her second research field is cinema: she co-edits the Manchester University Press series French Film Directors in which she co-authored the volume on François Truffaut. Her current research is on popular fiction and the pleasures of reading, and includes the recent publication of a Special Issue of French Cultural Studies: Story-Telling in Contemporary French Fiction: le ‘prêt-à -penser‘ and Reading Pleasure (co-edited with David Platten, November 2010).
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