Dr C. Warman

University Lecturer (CUF) in French, Fellow of Jesus College
Address:  Jesus College, Turl Street, Oxford OX1 3DW
Email:   caroline.warman@jesus.ox.ac.uk
Tel:   01865 279752

Research

I am interested in literature and the circulation of ideas, especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. I am currently looking at Diderot’s Eléments de physiologie in the context of the thinking of his contemporaries on matter, physiology and consciousness. I want ideas and texts to be able to flow between French and English as much as they did in the period I study, and have therefore translated and edited a selection of Isabelle de Charrière’s novellas, to be published by Penguin Classics in 2012, and also co-edited and co-translated (with Kate Tunstall) Marian Hobson's essays on the Enlightenment. I am co-organising (with Isabelle Moreau of UCL and Kate Tunstall) a conference on the topic of 'Thinking Matter' for May 2012, and I am a member of the ANR funded research project on 'Querelles' in England and France in the Early Modern Period, see here.

Undergraduate Teaching

I teach the First Year survey courses from medieval to modern. I lecture on aspects of French eighteenth and nineteenth century literature and thought, including the Novel 1700-1900, the Encyclopédie, Nineteenth Century French Thought, Literature and Philosophy in the Revolution, Women's Writing, etc. I give tutorials on prescribed authors Voltaire and Diderot, and special subject Rousseau. I teach translation into and out of French.

Graduate Teaching

I welcome applications at either masters or doctoral level relating to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, especially any aspect of thought or cultural history. See Masters in European Enlightenment.

Other

I was a judge of the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation prize in 2006 and 2007, see here. I have been a guest on Melvyn Bragg's Radio 4 programme In Our Time (on 'Materialism' and 'The Encyclopédie') and co-wrote and co-presented (with Kate Tunstall) four short programmes on Diderot as part of Radio 3's Essay: Enlightenment Voices series, see here. I am a member of OUCHE!, the Oxford University Campaign for Higher Education.

Publications

Sade: from materialism to pornography, SVEC 2002:1 (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2002).

(Translator and Editor) Isabelle de Charrière, The Nobleman and Other Romances (New York, Penguin Classics, 2012).

(Co-Translator and Co-Editor with Kate Tunstall) Marian Hobson, Diderot and Rousseau : Networks of Enlightenment SVEC 2011:4 (Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2011).

(Co-Editor with Mark Darlow) The Discursive Culture: reaction and interaction, text and context, SVEC 2007:06 (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2007).

« L’âme et la vie de l’organe dans la pensée vitaliste de Bordeu, Diderot et Bichat » in Repenser le vitalisme, ed. Pascal Nouvel (Paris : Presses universitaires de France, 2011), p.157-165.

« ‘Un petit homme court et gros, âgé de trente-cinq ans, d’une vigueur incompréhensible, velu comme un ours’: les figures du philosophe chez Sade » in Les Figures du philosophe dans les lettres anglaises et françaises (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles), ed. Alexis Tadié (Paris : Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest, 2010), p.189-199.

“Intimate, deprived, uncivilised: Diderot and the publication of the private moment” in Representing private lives of the Enlightenment, ed. Andrew Kahn, SVEC 2010:11 (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2010), p.35-51.

“From pre-normal to abnormal: the emergence of a concept in late eighteenth-century France,” in The natural and the normal in the history of sexuality, ed. Peter Cryle and Lisa Downing, Special Issue of Psychology and Sexuality, 1:3 (September 2010), p.200-213.

« Les Eléments de physiologie de Diderot : inconnus ou clandestins? Le cas de Garat », in Les Lumières en mouvement : la circulation des idées au XVIIIe siècle, ed. Isabelle Moreau (Lyon, ENS, 2009), p.65-87.

‘« La cristallisation à la mode », ou, vocabulaire de la matière amoureuse’ in Stendhal et la femme, ed. Lucy Garnier, special issue of L’Année stendhalienne 8 (2009), p. 35-50.

‘From Lamarck to Aberration: Nature, Hierarchies, and Gender” in Femininity and the construction of Sexual Pathologies, 1730-1920, ed. Peter Cryle and Lisa Downing. Special Issue of the Journal of the History of Sexuality, vol.18, issue 1 (Jan 2009), p.8-25.

‘Chains of influence, chains of allusion: case studies of clandestine rhetoric in and around the Encyclopédie,’ The Discursive Culture: reaction and interaction, text and context, ed. and introduction Mark Darlow and Caroline Warman, SVEC 2007:6, p.65-82.

“The ironic encounters of the Marquis de Sade and Jane Austen” at http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2007/sade/warman.html
‘What’s behind a face? Lavater versus the anatomists,’ Physiognomy in Profile: Lavater’s Impact on European Culture, ed. Melissa Percival and Graham Tytler (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005), p.94-108.

‘Sade, interprète de la science matérialiste,’ Les Réécritures littéraires des discours scientifiques, ed. Chantal Foucrier (Paris : Michel Houdiard, 2005), p. 45-51.

‘René and the mal du siècle: a literary role model for the negotiation of problematic sexual identity in nineteenth-century Europe – the cases of Custine and Amiel’ in Michael Worton and Nana Wilson-Tagoe, eds., National Healths: Gender, Sexuality and Health in a Cross-Cultural Context (London: UCL Press, 2004), p.201-210.

‘Indices de la clandestinité,’ in Sade en toutes lettres. Autour d’Aline et Valcour, ed. Michel Delon and Catriona Seth (Paris: Desjonquères, 2004), 70-77.

‘Matérialisme et éthique: Sade animateur de la vertu newtonienne,’ in Lire Sade, ed. Norbert Sclippa (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2004), 93-105.

‘Modèles violents et sensations fortes dans la genèse de l’oeuvre de Sade,’ L’épicurisme, ed. Anne Deneys-Tunney and Pierre-François Moreau, Dix-huitième siècle 2003 (35), 231-239.

‘“Broder sur des fonds connus”: Sade récrit la presse périodique,’ Réécritures 1700-1820, ed. Malcolm Cook and Marie-Emmanuelle Plagnol-Diéval, French Studies of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Vol. 4 (Oxford, Bern, Frankfurt a. M., New York: Peter Lang, 2002), 243-252.

‘Charts and Signposts: Following Vitalism and Mechanism through the Encyclopédie (1754-1772), the Encyclopédie méthodique (1787-1830) and the Dictionaire [sic] des sciences médicales (1812-1822),’ Vitalism and mechanism, ed. Mariana Saad, La Lettre de la Maison française d’Oxford 2001 (14): 85-104.

(Co-Written with George Rousseau), ‘Writing as Pathology, Poison or Cure: Henri- Frédéric Amiel’s Journal intime,’ Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 3(3): 229-262 (2002).

(Co-Written with George Rousseau), ‘Cultures of Melancholia in late Capitalism – a reflection, Response to Discussion of Rousseau and Warman by Jeanne Wolff Bernstein,’ Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 3(3): 273-279 (2002).

(Co-Written with George Rousseau), “Made from the Stuff of Saints: Chateaubriand’s René and Custine’s search for a homosexual identity,” GLQ 2001 (7) 1: 1-29.

‘From extremes to rigidity: the mechanism of the passions in mid-eighteenth-century French thought,’ Passion, ed. Ted Nye, SVEC 2001 (12): 393-397.

‘Snakes and Ladders Sade-style,’ Games, ed. Ted Nye, SVEC 2000 (8): 169-173.

‘The Jewels of Virtue: Sade’s claim to the legacy of materialism,’ Sade and his legacy, ed. John Phillips, Paragraph 2000 (23) 1: 87-97.