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Dr Emma Herdman is a Lecturer in French at the School of Modern Languages, University of St Andrews. She specializes in Renaissance French literature, focusing on classical influences, themes of transgression and restraint, and avian symbolism. Her current book project, Flights of Fancy: Avian Themes in Renaissance France, explores ornithological symbolism in 16th-century texts. She teaches modules on Renaissance literature, comparative literature, and women’s voices in early modern culture.
Her research spans early modern attitudes toward alcohol, women, theft, and religious war atrocities, with a recurring interest in birds as metaphors. She supervises PhD students and actively engages in interdisciplinary projects, including roles at the St Andrews Centre for the Receptions of Antiquity and the Centre for the Public Understanding of Greek and Roman Drama. Recent contributions include an edited volume on early modern European celebrations and appearances on BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time.
