Caroline Warman

Professor Caroline Warman is a Professor of French Literature and Thought at the University of Oxford's Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, affiliated with Jesus College. Her research focuses on 18th and 19th century French literature, materialist thought, and the circulation of ideas during the Enlightenment. She has authored books such as The Atheist's Bible: Diderot and the Éléments de physiologie and Sade: from materialism to pornography. She translates French works into English and vice versa, including Isabelle de Charrière’s The Nobleman and Other Romances and Diderot's Rameau's Nephew. Teaching includes undergraduate courses on French literature and thought, and graduate supervision in Enlightenment and cultural history. She served as President of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2018–21), contributed to BBC Radio programs discussing Enlightenment themes, and judged the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize. Her work bridges literary analysis with historical context, emphasizing cross-cultural textual exchange.