Emma Wilson (born 1967) is a British academic and writer, specialising in French literature and cinema. She is Professor of French Literature and the Visual Arts at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Corpus Christi College.
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Early life and education
Emma Wilson is the only child and daughter of novelist Jacqueline Wilson and her former husband, William Millar Wilson, a police officer. She was born in Kingston, London in early 1967. She was a scholarship student at Surbiton High School and then studied French and Latin as an undergraduate at Cambridge. She then stayed on to do a PhD in the French department. Her thesis was entitled The pain of the pleasure of the text: Tournier, reading and sexuality.