Catriona Seth
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Born | Worsthorne, Lancashire, England |
30 August 1964
Nationality | British |
Title | Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature (2015–present) |
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Discipline | French literature and History of ideas |
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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.
Early life and education
Seth was born on 30 August 1964 in Worsthorne, Lancashire, England.[1] She holds 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]
On 1 October 2015, she was appointed Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford.[10] At the same time, she was elected a University Academic Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.[5][10]
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.[11] In March 2014, she gave the John Rule Memorial Lecture at the University of Southampton.[12]
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.[13][14] She was appointed an associate member of the Académie Royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique in June 2018.[15]
In July 2018, Seth was awarded an honorary doctorate "for services to education" by Queen's University Belfast.[16]
In 2019, Seth was elected a Fellow of the Academia Europaea.[17]
Selected works
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- Catriona Seth (2006). Marie-Antoinette: Anthologie et dictionnaire (in French). Paris: Laffont.
- Catriona Seth (2008). Les Rois aussi en mouraient. Les Lumières en lutte contre la petite vérole (in French). Paris: Desjonquères.
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- Catriona Seth ed. (2011). Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses (in French). Paris: Gallimard, Bibl. de la Pléiade.
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- Catriona Seth (2014). Évariste Parny (1753-1814): Créole, révolutionnaire, académicien (in French). Paris: Hermann.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 'SETH, Prof. Catriona Jane', Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 2016 accessed 30 Aug 2017
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- ↑ http://www.presse.uni-augsburg.de/de/unipressedienst/2017/apr-juni/2017_078/
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