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Alicia Montoya is a Professor of French Literature Culture at Radboud University, specializing in eighteenth-century studies. She is the author of 'Medievalist Enlightenment: Charles Perrault Jean-Jacques Rousseau' (Cambridge, 2013) and 'Marie-Anne Barbier et la tragédie post-classique' (Paris, 2007), and has co-edited volumes such as 'Lumières et histoire / Enlightenment History' (Paris, 2010). She currently serves as the Principal Investigator for the NWO-funded Civic Fictions project and was formerly the PI for the ERC-funded MEDIATE project from 2016 to 2022. Montoya is a recipient of the 2017 Ammodo-KNAW Award Humanities and is a member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities. Her research interests include Civic Fictions, book history, literary medievalism, and women's writing. Through her work, she investigates how fiction contributes to citizens' moral education and aims to empirically test modern theories about fiction's ability to foster empathy and build community, utilizing digital bibliometric methods and integrating insights from literary theory, history, and bibliography.
Applies to Research Master's in Linguistics and Communication Sciences (Centre for Language Studies/Department of Language and Communication).