Dr. Martin Hurcombe

Martin Hurcombe is Professor of French Studies at the University of Bristol. He is a specialist of early twentieth century French culture, history and politics with an interest in sport history, history of journalism and the relationship between war and culture. He is the author of Novelists in Conflict: Ideology and the Absurd in the French Combat Novel of the Great War and France and the Spanish Civil War: Cultural Representations of the War next Door, 1936-1945 and French Political Travel Writing in the Inter-War Years: Radical Departures, the latter co-written with Martyn Cornick and Angela Kershaw. His current research focuses on the history of sport and sports writing (particularly print journalism in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries) which will shortly be published as French Cycling and Print Journalism: The Making of a Sport Culture.