Title : Professor
Research Themes :
- Early Modern Drama (Shakespeare and his contemporaries)
- Early Modern travel literature
- Receptions of Persia and the East in Early Modern Literature
Current Projects :
- Three Romances of Eastern Conquest (play edition, Revels Plays Companion Library series, Manchester University Press, forthcoming)
- Volume 3 (on travels to Muscovy and Persia, co-edited with Ralph Cleminson) of Richard Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation (general editors : Dan Carey and Claire Jowitt. In preparation, contracted to Oxford University Press)
- Eastern Resonances, collective volume of essays, co-edited with Claire Gallien
Education and Academic Positions :
- 1990, Ecole Normale Supérieure
- 1993, Agrégation d’anglais
- 2000, PhD, University of Montpellier 3. Dissertation title : Aux frontières de l’humain : Figures du cannibalisme dans le théâtre anglais de la Renaissance
- 2010, Habilitation à diriger des recherches, University of Montpellier 3. Title : Etrangeté et étrangèreté dans le théâtre anglais de la Renaissance
- 1995-2000 : Allocataire Monitrice Normalienne and ATER at the University of Montpellier
- 2000-2012, Maître de conferences (Senior Lecturer), Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7
- 2012-present, Professor, Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7
Administrative Responsibilities :
- Dean of Graduate Studies, Department of English Studies, University of Paris Diderot
- Board Member, Conseil Scientifique, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris Saclay (Cachan)
- Member of the Hakluyt Society Council
- Associate editor, Cahiers Elisabéthains
- Member of editorial board, Renaissance Studies
Research Supervision :
- British Literature and history of ideas, 16th-17th centuries
- Early Modern theatre (Shakespeare and his contemporaries) and its modern adaptations
- Travel literature, particularly in connection with Persia and the Ottoman empire in the early modern period
- Literary orientalism
Selected Publications :
- Aux Frontières de l’humain : figures du cannibalisme dans le théâtre anglais de la Renaissance. Paris : Honoré Champion, 2009.
- A Knight’s Legacy : Mandeville and Mandevillian Lore in Early Modern England. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2011.
- Études Épistémè 26 (automne 2014), special issue on “Curiosité et géographie en Orient et en Occident, XVIème – XVIIIème siècles”, co-edited with Line Cottegnies et Annick Horiuchi. <https://episteme.revues.org/290>
