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Dr. Jessica Goodman is an Associate Professor of French and Fellow of St Catherine's College at the University of Oxford. She specializes in eighteenth-century French literature and thought, with a focus on authorial self-fashioning, posthumous reputation, and theatrical history. Her research explores how authors constructed public images during their lifetimes and beyond, particularly through analysis of figures like Carlo Goldoni and Olympe de Gouges. Current projects include a monograph on imagined afterlives in eighteenth-century France and collaborative work on death representation in Western theatre. She teaches French language and literature at both undergraduate and graduate levels, including supervision of theses on Enlightenment-era theatre.
- Director of Studies in French at St Catherine's College
- Editor of Last Scene of All: Representing Death on the Western Stage (2022)
- Recipient of British Academy funding for outreach initiatives
Education: BA/MA in French and Italian from Worcester College, Oxford; DPhil under Alain Viala. Previously held a Junior Research Fellowship at Clare College, Cambridge.
Research interests include:
- Dialogues des morts genre
- Eighteenth-century dramatic theory
- Intellectual networks between France and Italy
- Socio-historical approaches to literature
