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Professor Nicholas Cronk is a leading scholar in European Enlightenment Studies, serving as Professor of French Literature and Director of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford. He holds a fellowship at St Edmund Hall and is affiliated with ITEM (CNRS/ENS) as Chercheur associé. His research focuses on Voltaire’s works, the French Enlightenment, and the history of the book, with emphasis on critical editing and textual analysis.
- Academic Positions: Director of the Voltaire Foundation, Professor of French Literature, Fellow of St Edmund Hall.
- Key Roles: Editor of the Complete Works of Voltaire, specialist in Voltaire’s correspondence and poetry, and authority on 18th-century literary culture.
Research interests include Voltaire’s historical writings, the Questions sur l’Encyclopédie, the Lettres philosophiques, and the broader intellectual trends of the Enlightenment. His work bridges textual scholarship and cultural history, with notable contributions to understanding Voltaire’s authorship practices and reception across Europe.
Publications include critical editions of Voltaire’s works, monographs on Enlightenment literature, and articles on topics such as Voltaire’s marginalia, the illustrated book, and the Dictionnaire philosophique. He has been awarded the AHRC Fellowship (2015–17) for his project on Voltaire’s radical Enlightenment and the Lettres sur les Anglais.
- Awards: Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, Officier dans l’ordre des Palmes académiques.
- Grants: AHRC Fellowship, collaborative projects on digital editions of Voltaire’s works.
His editorial work at the Voltaire Foundation has produced over 50 volumes of the Œuvres complètes de Voltaire, and he pioneers digital humanities approaches to Enlightenment texts, as seen in collaborative projects like the Electronic Enlightenment database.
