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Richard Scholar is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Durham University's School of Modern Languages and Cultures and Executive Director of the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. His scholarship focuses on early modern French/European literature, world literature, translation studies, and critical methodologies.
Scholar's current Leverhulme-funded project examines the global reception of Thomas More's Utopia prior to 1627. Key research areas include:
- Transcultural adaptations of utopian literature
- Historical semantics of French-derived English words
- Montaigne's epistemological skepticism
- Early modern translation practices
His publications demonstrate consistent engagement with mobility of ideas across linguistic boundaries, particularly how politically volatile texts were adapted during religious conflicts. Recent work analyzes utopianism's capacity to generate alternative sociopolitical imaginations.
Awards include the Philip Leverhulme Prize and French knighthood (Palmes Académiques). He currently supervises doctoral projects on women in Italian utopian tradition, Rabelaisian operatic adaptations, and language standardization/gender in early modern France.
