Title: Associate Professor
Research Themes:
- Eighteenth-century Medicine
- History of Infertility
- Body Studies
- Eighteenth-century literature
- Performance Studies
Current Projects:
- Cultural representations of infertility in the Eighteenth Century
- Representations of Guts and Bowels (publication underway)
- History of Pantomimes in Britain
Education and Academic Positions:
- 2006, Ph.D., University Paris 7. Dissertation Title: Medicine and Fiction in Eighteenth-Century Britain
- 2007-present, Associate Professor, Université Paris-Diderot
Administrative Responsibilities:
- In charge of the year planning for the department (with administrator Murielle Guillemont)
- Member of the Department Board (Conseil d’UFR)
- Member of the LARCA council
- Steering Committee of the (http://lapersonneenmedecine.uspc.fr/)
- Co-director of the “Early Modernities” research axis
- Director of the Fondation des États-Unis, Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris (www.feusa.org)
- Secretary of the Society of Anglo-American Studies for the 17th and 18th Century (SEAA 17-18)
Research Supervision:
- Eighteenth-Century Studies
- British Literature, 1650-1820
- Theatre Studies
- Body Studies
Selected Publications:
MONOGRAPHS:
- Détruire, prescrire, guérir : médecine et fiction dans la Grande-Bretagne du XVIIIe siècle (“La République des Lettres” series, Montréal, QC, Presses de l’Université Laval, 2011).
- The Physics of Language in Roderick Random (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2009).
EDITED VOLUMES:
- Raconter la maladie au dix-huitième siècle, Revue Dix-Huitième Siècle, eds. Sophie Vasset and Alexandre Wenger, La Découverte, 2015.
- Recycling in the 18th Century: The Afterlife of Used Things, eds. Sophie Vasset, Amélie Junqua and Ariane Fennetaux, New York, NY : Routledge, 2014.
- Medicine and Narration in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Sophie Vasset (Oxford : SVEC 2013 :04)
