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Dr Raphaële Garrod is an Associate Professor of French and Fellow of Magdalen College at the University of Oxford. She specializes in early modern French literature, intellectual history, and the intersections of scientific discourses with literary production. Her research focuses on the interplay between natural philosophy, medicine, and literary aesthetics in Renaissance texts, particularly the works of Rabelais. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and has held fellowships at Newnham College, the Australian Research Council Centre for the History of Emotions, and the ERC-funded 'Genius before Romanticism' project.
Her teaching encompasses undergraduate courses on French literature from the Renaissance to the 17th century, translation practices, and early modern textual analysis. She co-leads the MsT seminar on early modern invention with Wes Williams and emphasizes hands-on engagement with rare books from Magdalen College’s library. She has supervised doctoral research on topics ranging from Rabelaisian grotesque imagery to animal behavior in French thought.
Garrod’s publications include two monographs—Cosmographical Novelties (2016) and the forthcoming François Rabelais and the Physiology of Invention—as well as edited volumes on Descartes, natural history, and Jesuit emotional pedagogy. Her current project, Rabelais's Chairetic Arts—Thinking with Cases, explores the role of chance and contingency in Renaissance narratives.
