Catriona Seth

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Catriona Seth
FBA
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Seth in 2016
Born (1964-08-30) 30 August 1964 (age 60)
Worsthorne, Lancashire, England
NationalityBritish
Title Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature (2015–present)
Academic background
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Catriona Jane Seth, FBA (born 30 August 1964) is a British scholar of French literature and the history of ideas. Since 2015, she has been Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

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Early life and education

Seth was born on 30 August 1964 in Worsthorne, Lancashire, England. [1] She holds Irish and British citizenship. [2] She was brought up in England, Scotland, Switzerland, Belgium, and South America. [3] [4] She was educated at Colegio Francia in Caracas, Venezuela, at Lycée Sainte-Croix in Fribourg, Switzerland, and at Lycée français de Belgique in Belgium. [1]

Seth studied law and modern languages (French and Spanish) at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1986: as per tradition, her BA was promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Oxon) in 2001. [1] [5] [6] She then studied at Paris-Sorbonne University, completing a Maîtrise degree in 1987, a Diplôme d'études approfondies (DEA) in 1988, and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1995. [1] [3] [7] Her doctoral thesis was on Évariste de Parny, the 18th-century French poet, [6] and was supervised by Sylvain Menant. [7]

Academic career

Seth spent most of her academic career teaching in France. She completed the Agrégation in 1995, and the Habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR) in 2004. [1] From 1995 to 2000, she was a Professeur agrégé at the Académie de Rouen. [5] From 2000 to 2006, she was a tenured lecturer in 18th-century French literature at the University of Rouen. [5] From 2006, she was Professor of 18th-century French literature at Nancy 2 University. [1] When Nancy 2 University was merged with other universities to become the University of Lorraine, she continued her teaching at the new institution. [1] Between 2013 and 2014, she was also a World Leading Researcher at Queen's University, Belfast. [5] She has been a visiting professor at Indiana University (Bloomington, USA), at the Université de Gafsa (Tunisia) and at the University of Augsburg (Germany);.. [8] [9] She has been a Guest Researcher at the University of Bergamo (Italy), a Bogliasco Foundation Fellow, a Chawton House Fellow and was Senior Anniversary Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) of the University of Edinburgh in 2023. [10]

On 1 October 2015, she was appointed Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford. [11] At the same time, she was elected a University Academic Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. [5] [11]

Honours

In October 2012, Seth gave the fifth annual Burgerhartlezing (Burgerhart Lecture) under the title Nobody's Children? Foundlings, Identity and Individual Rights in the Enlightenment. [12] In March 2014, she gave the John Rule Memorial Lecture at the University of Southampton. [13]

In July 2017, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. [14] [15] She was appointed an associate member of the Académie Royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique in June 2018. [16]

In July 2018, Seth was awarded an honorary doctorate "for services to education" by Queen's University Belfast. [17]

In 2019, Seth was elected a Fellow of the Academia Europaea. [18]

Selected works

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