About
Professor in early modern British history and literature in the University of
Paris Nanterre in France. Director of the
Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre. Formerly: Editor of
ANGLES ; Secretary of the
French Shakespeare Society.
Areas of Research/Interest:
- Interpretation of violence in Shakespeare’s England (poetics, history, religion and politics);
- Links between gender/genre and performance in drama (from the early modern era to the 21st c.);
- Material and cultural history of early modern Britain;
- Divination and prophecy (from Antiquity to the 17th c.) (hermeneutics, plurilinguism);
- Religious quarrels in the Renaissance;
- Language (with particular emphasis on rhetoric), translation and politics.
I am currently working on the relationship between female kingship and violence in early modern drama.
Editorial responsibilities
- Director of the university press of Paris Nanterre;
- Member of the editorial committees of: