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Ingrid De Smet is Professor of French and Neo-Latin Studies at the University of Warwick, affiliated with the School of Modern Languages and Cultures and the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance. She has held significant leadership roles, including Director of the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance (2007–2010, 2014–2018) and School Director of Graduate Studies (2019–2023). She was Academic Director of Warwick in Venice (2015–2018) and remains an active scholar with international recognition.
Her research focuses on the intellectual culture of early modern Europe, particularly France, Italy, and the Low Countries (c. 1550–1650), with a strong emphasis on Neo-Latin literature, satire, humanism, and the Republic of Letters. She explores themes such as political polemics, print culture, gender, and the cultural history of hunting. Her work is interdisciplinary, combining literary analysis with historical and philosophical inquiry.
The trend in her publications reveals a deep engagement with Latin as a pan-European scholarly language, especially in the works of figures like Jacques Auguste de Thou. Her scholarship bridges literary criticism, intellectual biography, and cultural history, often uncovering overlooked texts and intellectual networks. She has contributed significantly to the understanding of satire, obscenity, and subversion in early modern print and manuscript culture.
Her scientific honors include being a Leverhulme Major Research Fellow, Fellow of the British Academy, and member of the Academia Europaea. She has held visiting positions at Villa I Tatti (Harvard) and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute.
- Leverhulme Major Research Fellow (2011–2014)
- Fellow of the British Academy (elected 2014)
- Member of the Academia Europaea (2019)
- Visiting Fellow, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute (2022)
- Robert Lehmann Visiting Professor, Villa I Tatti (2023)
Ingrid De Smet has supervised numerous MA and PhD students in Renaissance and Early Modern studies, with topics ranging from gender and political thought to the history of science and book history. Her research has been funded by the British Academy, AHRC, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and MHRA. She has served as editor-in-chief of RSA Texts and Studies and co-edits the Warwick Studies in Renaissance Thought and Culture series.
She is actively involved with major academic organizations, including the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (Past President 2018–2022), Society for Neo-Latin Studies, FISIER, and the Renaissance Society of America. She also serves on editorial boards of Lias, Renaissance Studies, and Chartae Neolatinae.
