Emma Wilson, FBA (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.
[2] She was a scholarship student at Surbiton High School[3] and then studied French and Latin as an undergraduate at Cambridge.
[6] As a researcher, Wilson is author of six books and over twenty articles published in scholarly journals in the field of modern languages and film.
[9] On 6 May 2009, Wilson was awarded an Ordre des Palmes académiques Chevalier (knight) medal by the French Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Maurice Gourdault-Montagne.