Dr. Suzanne Jones

Biography

Suzanne Jones is an Assistant Professor specializing in Early Modern French Literature at the University of Cambridge. She completed her doctoral studies at Keble College, Oxford, and has taught and conducted research at the University of Oxford from 2019 to 2024, primarily at St Anne's College. She has also held the position of Teaching Fellow at Durham University from 2018 to 2019 and worked as a lectrice at Université Paris Nanterre from 2016 to 2018. Her teaching interests focus on Early Modern French literature and thought, particularly works from the seventeenth century, including theatre and translation. Jones's research interests encompass Seventeenth-Century French drama, translation studies, early modern cross-Channel migration, multilingualism, print culture, intermedial translation, and the performances of French-language texts in early modern Europe. Notably, she has conducted research on Molière’s comedies for BBC Radio 3 and is engaged in a project titled 'Translating Tragedy: Politics Early Modern Cross-Channel Drama,' which explores how tragedies by writers such as Corneille and Racine navigated various boundaries, highlighting the role of intermediaries like Huguenot exiles and translators in shaping these texts.

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