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Emma Gilby began her academic journey in Derbyshire before studying French and German at Gonville Caius College, Cambridge. She started her University Lectureship in 2005 and has focused on early modern literary and intellectual history, particularly the works of Descartes and Pascal. Her research interests include the intersections of rhetoric, poetics, and ecocriticism, leading to significant publications such as 'Descartes’s Fictions: Reading Philosophy Poetics' (OUP, 2019), which examines the humanist theorizing of poetics as a vital context for understanding Descartes's work. She is currently working on a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship project titled 'New Modernism: Women Making Modern Languages,' which traces the development of early linguists in a cultural comparison context. Gilby has served as a CRASSH Crausaz-Wordsworth Fellow, a Scaliger Fellow at the University of Leiden, and a Teaching Fellow at Dartmouth College. She also has editorial responsibilities for the journal 'French Studies' from 2018-2024.
Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, University of Cambridge • Cambridge, United Kingdom
Professor of Early Modern French Literature and Thought, focused on the intersection of literary theory and intellectual history.
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