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Prof N E CronkProfessor N.E. Cronk

Nicholas Cronk, M.A., D.Phil.
Director of the Voltaire Foundation, Professor of French Literature, and Lecturer in the History of the Book
Address:  Voltaire Foundation, 99 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6JX
Email:   nicholas.cronk@voltaire.ox.ac.uk
Tel:   01865 284602
Fax:   01865 284610

Research

Nicholas Cronk's main research interests are in the field of eighteenth-century French literarature (in particular Voltaire and Diderot) and in history of the book (in particular the illustrated book). He is also General Editor of the Complete Works of Voltaire.

Teaching

French literature, especially 18th-century litearature; history of the book in France.

Publications

Editor, with Christiane Mervaud, Les Notes de Voltaire: une écriture polyphonique, SVEC, 2003:03 (Voltaire Foundation, 2003)

The Classical Sublime: French Neoclassicism and the Language of Literature (Rookwood Press, USA, 2002)

Editor, Etudes sur le "Traité sur la tolérance", Vif (Voltaire Foundation, 2000)

Editor, Etudes sur le "Fils naturel" et les "Entretiens sur le Fils naturel" de Diderot, Vif (Voltaire Foundation, 2000)

Editor, Voltaire, Letters concerning the English Nation, World's Classics (Oxford University Press, 1994)