Diana Knight

Diana Marilyn Knight (born November 1949 ) is a British scholar of French literature, who specialises in 19th-century French literature, Honoré de Balzac, and Roland Barthes. is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Nottingham.

She was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 2013.

Selected works Flaubert's Characters: The Language of Illusion (1985, 2009) Feminism (1986) (ed) Women and Representation (1995) (eds, with Judith Still) Barthes and Utopia: Space Travel Writing (1997) Roland Barthes (1997) (ed) Critical Essays on Roland Barthes (2000) (ed) Balzac and the Model of Painting: Artist Stories in 'La Comédie humaine' (2007)