Michael Worton at the UCL event ’Religion in education: Towards division or inspiration?’ in 2011.
Professor Michael Worton, Vice Provost (International) and Fielden Professor of French, is to retire at the end of September 2013 after 33 years at UCL. Professor Worton is an internationally regarded scholar of French literature and literary criticism, and has written extensively on French Literature, gender studies, art and critical theory. He has also been a longstanding champion of modern languages and the humanities in the higher education sector. Professor Worton joined UCL in 1980, as a lecturer in French Language and Literature. He was made a Professor of French in 1994 and in the same year he was elected Dean of the Faculty of Arts, before being appointed as Vice Provost (Academic) in 1998, a role that was expanded to include international affairs in 2004. He was instrumental in establishing the UCL Academy which opened in 2012, the first school in England with a university as sole sponsor. In addition, Professor Worton led the negotiations that saw UCL establishing its very first overseas campuses, in Australia and Qatar, as well as its ongoing partnership with Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan.
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