Judith Still

Judith Mary Still is Emeritus Professor of French and Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham.
She earned her PhD from University College London in 1985 with a thesis titled The code of beneficence in the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau : a study of the precariousness of justice in relations between non-equals : with special reference to pudicity.
Her research focuses on the 18th and 20th centuries, and "is informed by feminist and poststructuralist theory ".
In 2018, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Reflecting on her election, she expressed her hope to contribute to the Academy's diversity, as a woman and a critical theorist but also "in that I was first in my family to go to University, supported by a loving single mother and a State that gave me a full and unconditional grant throughout my studies".
She is also a former president of the Society for French Studies.

Selected publications

Derrida and hospitality: theory and practice
Derrida and other animals: the boundaries of the human
Enlightenment hospitality: cannibals, harems and adoption
Feminine economies: thinking against the market in the enlightenment and the late twentieth century
''Justice and difference in the works of Rousseau: bienfaisance and pudeur''