Department of French

Department of French

   

Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde works on French theatre in the early modern period. Her doctoral thesis, 'Mendacity and the Figure of the Liar in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy' is currently being transformed for monograph publication. Her new project examines suicide in seventeenth-century drama. She has published articles on Molière, Rotrou and Tristan L'Hermite and is currently working on a chapter on Bernard Lamy and Pierre Nicole for an edited collection entitled Guilty Pleasures: Theater, Piety and Morality in Seventeenth-Century France. Her research interests include dramatic theory, reception and audience response; theories of the comic; gender studies and translation studies.

For the last six years she has been actively involved in outreach programmes teaching French for Villiers Park Educational trust, an organisation which helps young people reach their full academic potential.