Georgie Walker is a second-year DPhil candidate at Magdalen College, Oxford, and is the graduate co-convenor for the Early Modern French Seminar.

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). This was followed by an MSt in French at Magdalen College, Oxford (2025), funded by the Magdalen College Modern Languages Scholarship. Her doctoral research is funded by the Leon E. and Iris L. Beghian Graduate Scholarship. 

She co-convened the Oxford French Graduate Research Seminar 2025-2026, and has run reading groups on Walter Benjamin's Illuminations, Jacques Rancière's Aesthesis and Iris Murdoch's Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals. She enjoys reviewing for both academic and non-academic publications, including French Studies. Her broader preoccupations include: critical posthumanism; contemporary food anthropology and criticism; psychoanalysis; and architectural criticism. 

Teaching

French Sole Prelims Paper XIII: Key Texts in French Thought (2026-2027)

FHS Paper IIA: Translation From French into English (2026-2027) at Trinity College, Oxford