Boris WISEMAN is a lecturer in the Department of French at the University of Durham. Field of research: 20th century literature, critical theory and French thought. Particular areas of interest: Claude Lévi-Strauss, structuralism, French ethnography, aesthetic theory.
Dr Wiseman’s research is centrally concerned with various forms of interdisciplinary connections. He specialises in the works of the French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, which he has approached specifically at the level of the latter’s ideas about art and aesthetics. He has also carried out research on issues relating to writing about the ethnographic experience.