Jonathan Mallinson
MA Oxford, MA PhD Cambridge, Fellow and Tutor in French
Email: jonathan.mallinson@trinity.ox.ac.uk
Departmental/faculty website: www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/pros_french
Departmental/faculty homepage: www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/mallinson
Academic positions held
Professor of Early Modern French Literature, and Fellow of Trinity College.
Academic background
After studying French and German at Pembroke College, Cambridge, I completed a Ph.D on seventeenth-century French comedy under the supervision of the late Odette de Mourgues. I held a French Government scholarship at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris), followed by a Research Fellowship, and then Teaching Fellowship at Pembroke College, before moving in 1989 to a University Lectureship and Fellowship at Trinity College, Oxford.
In 2006, I was awarded the title Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French Government for services to French culture. Since 2003 I have been General Editor of the academic monograph series SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), and I am currently President of the Association Internationale des Etudes Françaises.
Undergraduate teaching areas
I teach all the texts prescribed for study in the Preliminary Examination, and papers relating to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Final Honour School. I also give classes in French translation.
Graduate teaching areas
I have supervised postgraduate research on Voltaire, theatre and prose fiction of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, women’s writing, travel writing, and satire of the same period.
Research interests
My principal research has been in the following areas: comedy and prose fiction of the seventeenth century, eighteenth-century literature of ideas, Voltaire, Graffigny, book illustration, translation, satire, and the reception of neo-classical texts in the Enlightenment. My most recent publications have been critical editions of selected Voltaire texts for the definitive Oeuvres complètes, published by the Voltaire Foundation.