Jenny Mander

Jenny Mander is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of French at the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics. She is affiliated with Newnham College and has been actively engaged in research on 18th-century French literature, critical theory, and colonial historiography.

Her research primarily investigates

• 18th-century French thought and fiction
• Critical theory and narratology
• Colonialism and postcolonial critique
• Translation theory and multilingual traditions

Jenny Mander's recent publications and conference involvement focus on the

• Decolonial reassessment of Enlightenment texts
• Cognitive approaches to narrative structures
• Intertextual and multilingual dimensions of early European novels
• Historical linguistics and translation loss
• Comparative syntax of Romance languages
• Digital methodologies in colonial text analysis

Her work on Raynal's Histoire des deux Indes and its critical editions underscores her commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship.

Professor Mander supervises graduate students in the Faculty and contributes to the

• Cambridge Language Sciences network
• Cambridge Film and Screen research initiatives
• Cambridge Italian Research Network (CIRN)
• Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group (CELC)

She co-organized the 2010 international conference on Raynal's Histoire philosophique des deux Indes and continues to explore colonial representations in Enlightenment literature.