Academic Background
I read for a BA in Classics and Modern Languages (Latin and French) at St John’s College, Oxford, and completed my DPhil on Flaubert and the Literature of Classical Antiquity at St John’s. I have held teaching positions in a number of Oxford colleges since 1994.
Undergraduate Teaching
I teach all papers in the French prelims course; and in the FHS course, teach translation into and from French; the modern period of French literature (Paper VIII); and, from the modern French prescribed authors paper, Stendhal, Baudelaire and Flaubert.
Research Interests
My main research interests are in the field of the 19th-century French novel, especially Flaubert’s work. I am working on adapting my doctoral thesis, on Flaubert and classical literature, into a book. I have presented papers on Baudelaire and classical influences in his work, and I have an interest in and have lectured on, the reception of classical tragedy in 20th-century French drama.
Hobbies
I enjoy birdwatching and other nature-related observations, travel, and reading. I am currently a councillor on Oxford City Council and stood for parliament thrice earlier this century.
Publications
I have published a number of articles on Flaubert and Baudelaire over the years.
- 1999: ‘Flaubert: the classical dimension’ in New approaches in Flaubert studies, Edwin Mellen Press
- 2004: Review of Mary Orr’s Madame Bovary – representations of the masculine in French Studies, Vol. 58, no.4
- 2005: ‘Flaubert, Apuleius and Ovid: the genesis of a recurring theme’; in Downing, Harkness, Stephen and Unwin, Birth and Death in Nineteenth-Century French Culture (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007)
- 2006: ‘Cygne et symboles: imperial themes in Baudelaire’s Tableaux parisiens‘ at University of Chester Baudelaire Symposium
Links
Subject notes for courses taught at Jesus College:
- Classics and Modern Languages
- English and Modern Languages
- European and Middle Eastern Languages
- History and Modern Languages
- Modern Languages
- Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Philosophy and Modern Languages
See also Faculty of Modern Languages website and Goddads’ personal profile .