Professor Patrick McGuinness has secured a one year Levehulme Fellowship for his research on Against Epiphanies: French
Poetry and the Ordinary.
Professor Valerie Worth has secured a two year Emeritus Fellowship for her research on Women & Translation in Early Modern France.
The Early Modern French Research Seminar is a termly seminar series devoted to current scholarship in sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth-century French studies.
The Medieval French Seminar meets on a fortnightly basis during term-time, bringing together medievalists, including staff members, researchers, and postgraduate and undergraduate students, with interests in fields such as literature, language, music, art
The Modern French Research Seminar runs three times a term and brings together colleagues and graduate students with interests in French from Oxford and beyond.
The Centre for Early Modern Studies is host to the largest, most vibrant early modern scholarly community in the world.
The Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment is a new and fast-expanding research centre with an annual programme of lectures, seminars and conferences on every aspect of the Enlightenment and the Eighteenth Century - from debates about tolerance and freedo
As a research department, our mission is to disseminate world-leading research into the Enlightenment, and to bring the debates of Voltaire and his contemporaries to the widest possible audience.
The inflectional morphology of Romance languages often receives attention, but genuinely comparative, interpretative, pan-Romance, overviews remain rare.
The research was being conducted in the context of an unprecedented crisis in language learning in UK schools, which is in turn undermining the health of Modern Languages departments in universities.
This project aims to map and analyse the multiple engagements of various Caribbean countries with the complex and vexed process that is globalization since 1493 (when Columbus landed in Guadeloupe).
Rabelais remains the Renaissance poet of the belly. Pregnancies and births, urination and excretion punctuate the adventures of his giants Gargantua and Pantagruel. His style fits those themes. According to settled views among critics, the Rabelaisian belly and its related style signal either the comic crowning of our lower regions in the upside-down world of carnivalesque fiction, or humanist satire wielded against diseased body-politics: old universities, the Church.
The project follows literary rivers across texts from France and the Americas, thinking about those rivers as tributaries to a wider oceanic history.
The ANR AGON project focuses on early modern disputes (cases, querelles or controversies) and their relationship to creation. It involves researchers of early modern culture in both France and England.
This 1 year project led by Patrick McGuinness, with Stefano Evangelista from the Faculty of English, was funded by the Fondation Philippe Wiener-Maurice Anspach.
This project explores the value of literature as an object of knowledge, and more specifically, the cognitive value of literature in relation to other kinds of discourse.
The project brings together literary and linguistics specialists from the UK, France, and Spain to share methodologies in an interdisciplinary interrogation of the idea and manifestations of 'voice' in French literary texts from the twelfth to fifteenth c