Timothy Mathews

For many years, I was Professor of French and Comparative Criticism at University College London. As an educator and a critic, what I wanted most of all was to explore what relating to art can tell any one of us about relating to other people. I’m forever grateful to students and other educators for the way this exploration led me from French literature into Comparative Literature, and from there into translation, all of it opening myself out to my own writing. I’m now devoting myself to more collaborations, more work with translation, and above all more fascinations with art, more and different writing, more discoveries, and more gift.