Catriona Seth - Biography#

Catriona Seth holds the Marshal Foch Professorship in French Literature at the University of Oxford, arguably the most prestigious post in the field, and is a Fellow of All Souls College. Her international reputation is evidenced by her distinguished career. She was a lecturer and then a professor in France before her move to the United Kingdom in 2015. She was elected to a fellowship of the British Academy and of the Académie Royale de Belgique. She was awarded an honorary doctorate from Queen's University (Belfast) and has held numerous visiting positions (including Augsburg, Germany, Bloomington, US, Belfast and Chawton, UK, or Gafsa, Tunisia). Her publications cover a wide range of approaches from textual scholarship to cultural history. She has written widely-praised single-authored monographs and produced major editions both of canonical works and of forgotten texts uncovered in the archives, along with numerous articles. She has held a variety of national and national research awards (including jointly funded Franco-German and Belgo-British projects) and supervised considerable numbers of research students. She is on several editorial committees for journals and book series. Since 2015 she has been the president of the interdisciplinary Société Française d'Etude du XVIIIe siècle. She has given many named lectures and keynotes including for the Swedish Society for 18th-century studies, the Dutch-Belgian Society for 18th-century studies, the University of Manchester, the University of Exeter, the University of Southampton, conferences in France, the U.K., Germany, Spain, the U.S., Belgium, Poland etc.