Department of French

Department of French

   

Emma Gilby works on French thought and literature of the early modern period (especially the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries). Her publications include Sublime Worlds: Early Modern French Literature (MHRA [Legenda]), 2006), an edition of Longinus, De la sublimité du discours (L'Act-Mem, 2007) and Space: New Dimensions in French Studies (Peter Lang, 2005), which was co-edited with Katja Haustein. Recent articles look at Descartes on chance, seventeenth-century dramatic theory, versions of the Oedipus myth, and Tallemant des Réaux. She has been a CRASSH Early Career Fellow, and the recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize. She is currently writing a book called Descartes's Fictions.