Brasenose College, Oxford - Professor Richard Cooper
Professor Richard Cooper
Name and Title
Professor Richard Cooper
Brasenose Status
Official Fellow
Role or Position
Professor of French, Tutorial Fellow in French
Qualifications
M.A., D. Phil
Academic Background
Lecturer in French, Lancaster University (1971-77); Fellow of Brasenose and Tutor in French 1977- ; Junior Proctor (1982-83); Visiting Professor Paris-IV (1986, 1991); Visiting Professor, University of Rome-I (1988);
Professor of French 1998; Kennedy Professor, Smith College, Massachusetts
(2004); Faber Lecturer, Princeton (2005).
Undergraduate teaching
Sixteenth - Eighteenth Century French Literature.
Research Interests
Renaissance French and Italian litereature, especially Rabelais, Du Bellay, Marguerite de Navarre, Marot, Ronsard, Montaigne, fiction; Franco-Italian relations; antiquities in the
Renaissance; Court festivals and triumphal entries; Renaissance Occult
sciences; History of the Book; Eighteenth-century views of the Renaissance.
Publications include
Litteræ in tempore belli: Etudes sur les relations littéraires italo-françaises pendant les guerres d'Italie, Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1997, 414 pp.
Maurice Scève, The Entry of Henri II into Lyon, September 1548, text with an
introduction and notes, Tempe Arizona: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and
Studies, 1997, 327 pp.
Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, trans. Sir Thomas Urquhart, Wordsworth
Classics, 1999.
Jean Du Bellay, Poemata, with G. Demerson, Paris: Société des Textes
Français Modernes, 2007, 353pp
Marguerite de Navarre, Chrétiens et mondains, poèmes épars, vol. 8 of Œuvres
complètes de Marguerite de Navarre, Paris: Librairie H. Champion, 2007,
736pp.
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