Judith Still

Judith Mary Still (born 1958) 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 particular the work of Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray)". 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 (2013, Edinburgh UP: ) Derrida and other animals: the boundaries of the human (2015, Edinburgh UP: ) Enlightenment hospitality: cannibals, harems and adoption (2011, Voltaire Foundation: ) Feminine economies: thinking against the market in the enlightenment and the late twentieth century (1997, Manchester UP: ) Justice and difference in the works of Rousseau: bienfaisance and pudeur (1993, Cambridge UP: )