Dr R.W. Scholar
University Lecturer (CUF) in French, Fellow of Oriel College
French Year Abroad Officer (on leave in 07-08)
Address: Oriel College, Oxford OX1 4EW
Homepage: http://www.oriel.ox.ac.uk/content/109
Email: richard.scholar@oriel.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 276555
Fax: 01865 276532
Research
Richard Scholar's main research interests lie in the field of early modern French literature and thought. He has related interests in comparative approaches to literature, in interdisciplinary work, and in questions of critical method and theory. His research has focused, at different times, on the work of Montaigne, Shakespeare, Descartes, Pascal, and Racine. He is currently completing a book, entitled Montaigne and the Art of Free-Thinking, with the help of a one-year Leverhulme Research Fellowship. He is a member of the interdisciplinary research group 'Frontières de la modernité', based at the Maison Française d'Oxford, and a Director of the Oxford Amnesty Lectures.
Teaching
French literature and thought, especially of the 16th and 17th centuries, and French language.
Publications
'French Connections: The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi in Montaigne and Shakespeare', in: How to Do Things with Shakespeare, ed. Laurie Maguire (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008), pp. 13-33
'Friendship and Free-Thinking in Montaigne', in: ‘Revelations of Character’: Ethos, Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy in Montaigne, ed. Corinne Noirot-Maguire with Valérie M. Dionne (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007), pp. 31-46
Editor, with William Poole, Thinking with Shakespeare: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Essays (London: Legenda, 2007)
'Introduction', in: Transmitting Knowledge: Words, Images, and Instruments in Early Modern Europe, ed. Sachiko Kusukawa and Ian Maclean (Oxford: Oxford-Warburg Studies, 2006), 1-11
'Two Cheers for Free-Thinking', in: Theory and the Early Modern, ed. Michael Moriarty and John O’Brien, Paragraph, 29 (2006), 40-53
Editor, Divided Cities: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2003 (Oxford: OUP, 2006)
Editor, Divided Cities: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2003 (Oxford: OUP, 2006)
The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi in Early Modern Europe: Encounters with a Certain Something (Oxford: OUP, 2005)
'Towards a Pre-History of the Knowledge Economy: The Case of Pascal', Seventeenth-Century French Studies, 27 (2005), 71-81
Editor, Blaise Pascal, Entretien avec Sacy sur la philosophie (Arles: Actes Sud, 2003)
'The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi: Faultlines in Foucault’s Classical Épistémè', Biblio 17, 147 (2003), 255-65
'Je Ne Sais Quelle Grâce: Esther before Assuérus', French Studies, 56 (2002), 317-27
'La Force de l’imagination de Montaigne: Camus, Malebranche, Pascal', Littératures classiques, 45 (2002), 127-38
'Hume, Backgammon, and Philosophical Melancholy', Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, (2000:08), 143-9
'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: A Case-Study in Translation?', Translation and Literature, 7 (1998), 42-59
'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: A Case-Study in Translation?', Translation and Literature, 7 (1998), 42-59
'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: A Case-Study in Translation?', Translation and Literature, 7 (1998), 42-59