Dr. Mark Darlow

Biography

Mark Darlow specializes in eighteenth-century French theatre music, particularly opéra-comique, and the works of Rousseau and Bernardin de Saint-Pierre during the Revolutionary period. He is currently researching the posterity of French 'classical' theatre within the Enlightenment, with a particular interest in material culture and book history. His work integrates various approaches to eighteenth-century French theatre and musicology from a cultural historical perspective, and this methodology is taught as part of the core course in theory within the Faculty's MPhil course in Literature, Culture, and Thought. Darlow has served on editorial boards for Nottingham French Studies, Oxford University Studies in Enlightenment, and Journal Eighteenth-Century Studies. He is currently on the editorial boards of Coulisses, Modern Languages Open, Early-Modern French Studies, and European Drama Performance Studies. His interdisciplinary research has received support from grants by the AHRC and the British Academy. Darlow won the Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2005, the first time it was awarded to a modern linguist. He has acted as an associate researcher at the Centre de la musique baroque in Versailles and an overseas correspondent for the French government-funded Registres de la Comédie-Italienne project. His ongoing projects explore sources concerning the Comédie-Italienne and the role of women in eighteenth-century theatre. He is currently supervising PhD theses and welcomes inquiries from potential graduate students.

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