Georgie Walker is a first-year DPhil candidate at Magdalen College, Oxford, and one of the co-convenors for the French Graduate Seminar for 2024-2025. 

Her thesis investigates the relationship between food and feeling in seventeenth-century French literature. Descriptions of intense, complex feelings surrounding the preparation, consumption, and digestion of food abound in this literature, gesturing towards larger questions concerning the centrality of both affective and culinary epistemologies in the early modern period. By tracing these descriptions, her research will suggest how a consideration of feeling and eating shifts not only the ways in which modern scholars think about the early modern period, but also the ways in which we think about how early moderns thought.  

Prior to her doctoral research, she completed a BA in English and French at Wadham College, Oxford (2024), for which she was awarded the Christina Howells Prize for Best Performance in French by Wadham College. This was followed by an MSt in French at Magdalen College, Oxford (2025), which was fully-funded by the Magdalen College Modern Languages Scholarship. Her doctoral research is funded by the Leon E. and Iris L. Beghian Graduate Scholarship.