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Raphaële Garrod is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford and a Fellow at Magdalen College. Her research focuses on the intersections of French European intellectual history and literature. She explores how scientific discourses of the period, such as natural philosophy, history, and medicine, informed changing worldviews, particularly in early modern texts. Her publications include 'Cosmographical Novelties: Dialectic Discovery in Early Modern French Prose' (Brepols, 2016) and 'François Rabelais: Physiology Invention: Ingenious Animation' (Oxford University Press, 2025). Garrod teaches undergraduate courses on sixteenth and seventeenth-century texts, translation, and early modern French culture, and she has co-supervised multiple D.Phil students. She is committed to close reading texts and familiarizing students with rare books. Her academic journey includes education at Paris IV, Sorbonne, and Cambridge, along with a junior research fellowship at Newnham College and work at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. She became a post tutorial fellow at Magdalen in 2018 and was co-opted into the Société d'Histoire littéraire de la France in 2024.
University of Oxford • Oxford, UK
Teaching undergraduate courses and supervising graduate students in French literature and culture.
Department of Politics and International Relations - Higher Level English requirement.