Contributors

Réception des mythes (mythes d'origine biblique, mythes gréco-romains); études de genre (gender), littérature au féminin, matrimoine; écriture de l'Histoire et des interactions sociales, de la Révolution française à nos jours; fiction et non-fiction (correspondances, journaux, écrits viatiques, essais)

Philosophie morale et politique; philosophie du droit; théories du contrat social; la question du lien social; la guerre et les théories de la guerre juste; l'amitié aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles; Grotius; Hobbes; Rousseau.
 

Title of PhD Thesis: “The Rake’s Progress: contribution to an archaeology of predation” under the supervision of Profs. Frédéric Ogée (Université Paris Cité) and Paul Baines (University of Liverpool).

Eighteenth-century fiction and visual culture

Sociology of cultural communication; communication and public safety; media communication and criminality; sociology of literature and the narrative and symbolic representations of modern identity.

Political and financial history (French revolution)

Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature, with special interests in reading habits, politics, and information exchange; expert on Samuel Pepys, the Restoration diarist and collector.

Seventeenth-century English theatre; Restoration politics; Restoration comedy; sociologie of theatre.
 

Histoire de l’art et civilisation britannique au XVIIIe siècle (historiographie, études de tableaux).
 

British aesthetics and landscape studies; digital humanities; image; virtual reality.

Eighteenth-century political culture; issues of gender; role of masculinity in debates about citizenship.

The Scottish Enlightenment and especially Adam Ferguson; ideas of empire, war and peace, democracy and commerce during the Enlightenment; Caesarism and democracy in the long nineteenth century; nineteenth-century political economy; the conceptual history of ‘ochlocracy’; the history of historiography (especially in post-Napoleonic Germany).