Catriona Seth has been appointed Guest Professor for Transnational Research by the Jakob-Fugger-Zentrum at the University of Augsburg.

Professor Seth has often had occasions to collaborate with Professor Rotraud von Kulessa of the University of Augsburg. They are in charge of the Franco-German ANR/DFG project on Marie Leprince de Beaumont and Enlightenment historiography. They also jointly curated the anthology of freely downloadable texts on the Idea of Europe in the long eighteenth century (http://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/610/lid-e-de-l-europe-au-si-cle-des-lumi-res/e7b2d87fb8c433f98e140f94c2586ba9) which is currently being translated into English by Oxford students and their tutors.

For more information: http://www.presse.uni-augsburg.de/de/unipressedienst/2017/apr-juni/2017_078/