| Dr Thomas Wynn |
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Lecturer in French |
| Department(s): Modern Languages (French) |
| Room: 111 (Queen's Building) |
Telephone:
+44 (0)1392 264216
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Dr Thomas Wynn welcomes enquiries about postgraduate supervision (for MRes and PhD degrees) in any of the following fields: early modern theatre, eighteenth-century drama and fiction, libertinage and erotic writing.
My research focuses on theatre, spectatorship and libertinage in early modern French literature and culture. My monograph on Sade's theatre was published in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century in February 2007, and my critical edition of François II, roi de France, arguably the first example of ‘armchair theatre' in France, appeared in the MHRA Critical Texts series. This edition forms part of a general project on armchair theatre from the mid seventeenth century to the late eighteenth century. In addition to publishing on Voltaire, erotic theatre, and film adaptation, I have also co-edited an issue of the Canadian journal L'Annuaire théâtral, devoted to Sade's theatre and the representation of Sade in contemporary theatre.
With Professor Pierre Frantz (Paris IV), I am co-director of an international research group, Dramatic Exchanges - Patrimoine dramatique du XVIIIe siècle. This network, funded by the British Academy, investigates the evolving relationship between theatrical representation and public reception in eighteenth-century France. For further details, see:http://www.crht.org/2006/12/06/projet-patrimoine-dramatique-du-xviiie-siecle/
Publications in Print
Authored Book
Edited Book
Critical Editions
- C.J.F. Hénault, François II, roi de France (London: MHRA, 2006). 166 pp. ISBN 0 947623 67 1. For further details please refer to http://www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Books/wynn.html
- (co-editor) Voltaire, ‘Poème sur la loi naturelle', in Complete Works of Voltaire, vol. 32B (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2007), pp. 1-96. ISBN 978 0 7294 0843 1 [section of one volume of Voltaire's Complete Works, 376 pp.]
- (editor) Voltaire, 'Lettre d'un Turc sur les fakirs et sur son ami Bababec', in Complete Works of Voltaire, vol. 32A (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2006), pp. 143-58. ISBN 0 7294 0842 6 [section of one volume of Voltaire's Complete Works, 505 pp.]
- (co-editor) Voltaire, ‘Tancrède’, in Complete Works of Voltaire, vol. 49B (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2009), pp.59-263. ISBN 978 0 7294 0968 1 [section of one volume of Voltaire’s Complete Works, 465 pp.]
Chapters in Books (since 2001)
- ‘Masochisme et le tableau sadien', in Lire Sade, ed. by Norbert Scippa (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2004), pp. 245-57.
Articles in Refereed Journals (since 2001)
- ‘Sade's verse', SVEC (2003:01), 427-34.
- ‘Decoration and imagination in four eighteenth-century adaptations of Gerusalemme Liberata and the Tancrède legend', SVEC (2004:07), 275-293.
- ‘Le dialogue dans le théâtre érotique du XVIIIe siècle', SVEC (2005:07), 227-234.
- 'Manon through the lens of Clouzot (1948): "images troublantes et précises"', French Cultural Studies, 17 (2006), 73-85.
- ‘A note on the authorship of Voltaire's La Fête de Bélébat', French Studies Bulletin, 101 (winter 2006), 99-101.
- ‘Un théâtre démesuré et l'individu selon Sade', L'Annuaire théâtral, 41 (May 2007), dossier «Sade et le théâtre: la scène et l'obscène», 29-39.
- «Sur la tragédie et la comédie»: un manuscrit inédit du président Hénault', Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France, 2 (2008), 259-68
Conferences Organised (since 2001)
- 'Dramatic Exchanges' at the Maison Française, Oxford.
This is the first in a series of events in Britain and France funded by a British Academy grant of almost £6,000. 8-9 February 2008
- Co-organisation (with Pierre Frantz) of conference ‘Salle, scène et coulisses - échanges' at Paris IV-Sorbonne. 25-26 April 2007
Conference Papers (since 2001)
- ‘Sade's Verse'
March 2001, Lincoln College, Oxford, Verse and Versifiers in the Eighteenth Century'.
- ‘Eighteenth-Century French Erotic Theatre'
March 2002, St. Catherine's College, Cambridge, Exposure conference
- ‘Masochism and the Sadean tableau'
March 2003, Charleston, SC, International Sade Conference
- ‘Obscenity and performance in eighteenth-century French theatre'
January 2004, Oxford, British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference
- ‘Le dialogue dans le théâtre clandestin du XVIIIe siècle'
April 2004, Lincoln College, Oxford, ‘Le Dialogue' conference
- ‘Manon Lescaut and cinematic adaptation'
November 2004, Burlington, Vermont, NEASECS conference
- ‘The Sadean curtain'
June 2005, Maison Française, Oxford, ‘Frontières des arts' conference
- ‘Sade et la théâtralité dans Quills, la plume et le sang (2001)'
March 2006, Université Jean Moulin-Lyon III, ‘Images des Lumières, écriture et écrivains du XVIIIe siècle au cinéma'
- ‘Hénault and imaginary theatre'
June 2006, Maison Française, Oxford, Cesar conference
- ‘Le théâtre à lire: François II de Hénault'
April 2007, Paris IV-Sorbonne, ‘Salle, scène et coulisses - échanges'
- ‘Theatre matters: Sade the stubborn playwright'
June 2007, the British Academy, conference on ‘Food for Thought: a Different Sade'
- ‘Teaching Sade / Sade teaching',
May 2008, IGRS seminar, London
- ‘The unspeakable queen: the problem of subjectivity in Corneille's Rodogune',
June 2008, Society for French Studies, Liverpool
I have also given papers at research seminars at the universities of Exeter, Cambridge and Oxford.
Undergraduate Teaching in 2008-09
I will be on study leave in Semester 1
- MLF 1118: Playing With Trouble, an Introduction to French Theatre (convenor and co-teacher)
- MLF 2001A: French Language
- MLF 2052: Screening the Eighteenth Century (convenor and sole teacher)
- MLF 3014: Fiction as Film (convenor and co-teacher)
Postgraduate Supervision since 2001
PhD, ‘Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and the French Revolution', Odile Jaffré-Cook, 2006 to present.
Supervision of an MA dissertation in 2007.
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