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Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics

 

Dr Timothy Chesters

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Position(s): 
University Associate Professor
Department/Section: 
French
Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics
Contact details: 
Telephone number: 
(+44) (0)1223 333271
College: 
Location: 

Clare CollegeÌý Trinity LaneÌý ÃÜÌÒÊÓÆµ Ìý CB2 1TL

About: 

Timothy Chesters specialises in sixteenth-century French literature and thought. He is the author ofÌýGhost Stories in Late Renaissance France: Walking by NightÌý(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), as well as of a number of articles on Rabelais, Calvin, Montaigne, Ronsard, Louise Labé and early modern history of the book. He is currently writing a monograph calledÌýThe Effect of French Renaissance Poetry:ÌýLiterature and Efficacy (1520-1585), a study of the connection between poetry and natural magic.Ìý

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Dr Chesters welcomes enquiries from potential MPhil and doctoral students with research interests relating to any aspect of French Renaissance literature and culture, the history of the book, or cognitive approaches to literature.Ìý