Professor Caroline Warman

Professor of French Literature and Thought, Fellow of Jesus College

caroline.warman@jesus.ox.ac.uk

I am interested in literature and the circulation of ideas, especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. I am currently looking at Diderot's Eléments de physiologie in the context of the thinking of his contemporaries on matter, physiology and consciousness. I want ideas and texts to be able to flow between French and English as much as they did in the period I study, and have therefore translated and edited a selection of Isabelle de Charrière's novellas (Penguin Classics, 2012), and co-translated (with Kate Tunstall) Marian Hobson's essays on the Enlightenment (SVEC, 2011) and Denis Diderot's Neveu de Rameau (OpenBook Publishers, 2014; 2nd edition 2016), which you can read for free here here. I co-ordinated the translation by 102 students and colleagues of Tolerance: The Beacon of the Enlightenment which was published on the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo assassinations. You can read the book for free here. We also co-organised (with Isabelle Moreau of UCL) a conference on the topic of 'Thinking Matter' in May 2012. I am a member of the ANR funded research project on 'Querelles' in England and France in the Early Modern Period, see here.

Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages

I am interested in literature and the circulation of ideas, especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. I am currently looking at Diderot's Eléments de physiologie in the context of the thinking of his contemporaries on matter, physiology and consciousness. I want ideas and texts to be able to flow between French and English as much as they did in the period I study, and have therefore translated and edited a selection of Isabelle de Charrière's novellas (Penguin Classics, 2012), and co-translated (with Kate Tunstall) Marian Hobson's essays on the Enlightenment (SVEC, 2011) and Denis Diderot's Neveu de Rameau (OpenBook Publishers, 2014; 2nd edition 2016), which you can read for free here here. I co-ordinated the translation by 102 students and colleagues of Tolerance: The Beacon of the Enlightenment which was published on the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo assassinations. You can read the book for free here. We also co-organised (with Isabelle Moreau of UCL) a conference on the topic of ‘Thinking Matter' in May 2012. I am a member of the ANR funded research project on ‘Querelles' in England and France in the Early Modern Period, see here.