Title: Professor of British literature and art history
Research Themes:
- Literature
- Art history
- History of ideas
- Landscapes and gardens
- Long 18th century (1660-1851)
Current Projects:
- Book and exhibition (2018-2019) on British portraitist Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830)
- Truth in British Art (Book project /+ anthology of artists’ writings)
Education and Academic Positions:
- 1977-1982 : Ecole Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud
- 1977-1979 : BA and Master’s in English Studies, Université Paris X - Nanterre
- 1980 : Agrégation d’Anglais (British literature)
- 1984 : PhD in British Literature, Université de Paris X - Nanterre.
Title : Henry Fielding et l’esthétique : contribution à l’analyse des trois romans de Henry Fielding à la lumière de l’Analyse de la Beauté de William Hogarth.
- 1986-1996 : Lecturer, Université Paris X - Nanterre
- 1993 : Habilitation à diriger des recherches, Université Paris X - Nanterre
- 1996- : Professor of British literature and art history, Université Paris Diderot
Administrative Responsibilities:
- 1998-2001 : President of Research Committee, English Dept., Université Paris Diderot
- 2002-2006 : Elected member of Academic Research Committee, Université Paris Diderot
- 2001-2010 : Director of the Collège Franco-Britannique, Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris
- 2007-2015 : Vice-President for international relations, Université Paris Diderot
- 2014-2017 : Member of Tate Britain Advisory Council
Research Supervision:
- Literature, art history, gardens and landscapes, UK, long 18th century (1660-1851)
Selected Publications:
- William Hogarth : Representing Nature’s Machines. In collaboration with David Bindman (University College London) and Peter Wagner (Universität Landau). Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001.
- ‘Better in France? The circulation of ideas across the Channel in the 18th century. Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, 2005.
- Jonathan Richardson : Traité sur la peinture, etc., édition critique et traduction, en collaboration avec Isabelle Baudino. Paris : Ecole Nationakle Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, 2008.
- J.M.W.Turner. Les paysages absolus. Paris : Hazan, 2010, 400p.
- Sensing the World- Taste and the senses in the Eighteenth Century (II), Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2017.
