About
Professor Seth Whidden is a Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of The Queen's College. He specializes in modern French literature, with a focus on 19th-century poetry and authors such as Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, and Marie Krysinska. His research explores themes of subjectivity, authority, collaboration, and poetic form. He currently serves as Editor of Nineteenth-Century French Studies and is a member of the IHRIM research group.
Education: BA (Union College), MA (Ohio State University), AM and PhD (Brown University).
Research highlights include the 2016 Phoenix Prize for editorial work and ongoing projects on voice in French poetry. He supervises one doctoral student, Rebecca Boyd, and is affiliated with Les Amis de Jean-Baptiste Botul as the UK representative.
