University of Warwick

Post-Doc, History

Research Fellow 'Europe's Asian Centuries: Trading Eurasia 1600-1830'

About

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Intellectual, Cultural, and Economic History of the eighteenth century, especially in France: Enlightenment literature and thought, social and political philosophy, political economy, gender and the Enlightenment; trade, commercial culture, the East India Companies. My current research focusses on the introduction of fine Asian manufactured goods, especially Indian cottons, into France.





ACADEMIC PROFILE:

Research Fellow, Centre for Global History, History Department, Warwick University (2010-2014)

Heath Harrison Teaching Fellow, University of Oxford (2007-2009)

D.Phil, University of Oxford: ‘The Eighteenth-Century Luxury Debate: the case of Voltaire’ (2007-2010). Supervisor: Dr. Jonathan Mallinson, examiners: Professor Nicholas Cronk (Oxford), Professor John Robertson (Cambridge)

M.St., University of Oxford: ‘Women and the Luxury Debate: the case of Françoise de Graffigny’ (2006-2007)

B.A., University of Oxford and Université Toulouse le Mirail: Modern History and French (2002-2006)




SELECTED PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS:

International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Congress, Graz, Austria, and Conference 'New Global Connections: India and Europe in the Long Eighteenth Century', Queen's University, Belfast: 'Intellectual History as Global History: Voltaire's Fragments sur l'Inde and the problem of Enlightened commerce'. Pending publication.

Princeton University, NJ, USA: 'The Ethics of Progress and Consumerism – Debates in 18th-Century Political Economy' (April 2010)

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM, USA: 'Mandeville, Du Châtelet and Voltaire: The Intellectual Foundations of Voltaire’s Defence of Luxury and Commercial Society’ (March 2010). Article forthcoming in European History of Ideas.

SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century): 'Materialism and Morality: Diderot and Sade in Light of the Luxury Debate' (2008:06, pp. 217-226)

'Françoise de Graffigny', The Literary Encyclopedia (www.litencyc.com)

French Studies: Reviews A l’Ombre des Lumières: Littérature et pensée françaises du XVIIIe siècle, ed. by Trude Kolderup & Svein-Eirik Fauskevag (Paris: Solum & L’Harmattan, 2009) and Guillaume-Thomas Raynal: Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes. Édition critique. Tome I. Sous la direction d'Anthony Strugnell. Ferney-Voltaire: Centre International d’Etude du XVIIIe Siècle, 2010. 

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