Charlotte Ribeyrol

Charlotte Ribeyrol is an Associate Professor at Sorbonne Université, Paris, and a Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Her research focuses on the reception of classical antiquity in Victorian painting and literature, particularly exploring the interplay of color, pigments, and dyes in 19th-century British cultural production.

• Sorbonne Université (Associate Professor, current)
• Trinity College, Oxford (Marie Curie Fellow, 2016–2018)
• Institut Universitaire de France (Junior Member, ongoing)

Her work bridges literary studies, art history, and material culture, with a monograph on Hellenism in Swinburne, Pater, and Symonds (2013) and interdisciplinary projects like POLYRE (2014–2016) examining chromatic materiality. She has co-edited special issues on paganism in Victorian literature and contributed to journals such as The Journal of Victorian Culture and volumes like Pater the Classicist (OUP, 2017).

Ribeyrol’s awards include the prestigious Marie Curie Fellowship and recognition by the Institut Universitaire de France. Her recent projects analyze William Burges’s Great Bookcase and the cultural significance of color in Victorian England.