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British literary scholar (1964) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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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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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]
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]
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]
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