Marina Perkins

Marina Perkins is a Career Development Fellow at The Queen's College, University of Oxford, specializing in early modern French literature. She teaches courses on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature, including first-year modules (Papers III, IV, VII, and X) and translation into English. Her research examines communication and power dynamics in early modern texts, particularly Michel de Montaigne's Essais, focusing on themes like civility, diplomacy, and exegesis. Her current project explores authoritative speech in seventeenth-century tragedy.

• PhD in French Literature from the University of Cambridge (Jesus College)

Her research integrates pragmatic language philosophy to analyze how discourse shapes power structures. Recent work includes studies on Montaigne's underspecification techniques and Corneille's Le Cid.

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