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Rebecca Ford

Assistant Professor in French and Francophone Studies, Faculty of Arts

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Expertise Summary

My research interests include the following areas: Enlightenment thought and literature; the ·¡²Ô³¦²â³¦±ô´Ç±èé»å¾±±ð; eighteenth-century science and industry (especially mineralogy, mining and metallurgy); d'Holbach; Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and his correspondance.

Teaching Summary

My teaching interests centre on eighteenth-century French literature and culture. I teach the second-year module 'Enlightenment Literature: An Introduction' (R12088) and the final-year module 'Peuple… read more

Research Summary

I am currently involved in preparing a new edition of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's Oeuvres completes, working with Simon Davies (QUB) on the Harmonies de la nature. I am also in the early stages of a… read more

Selected Publications

  • FORD, R., 2009. Nottingham French Studies. 48(3), 113-124
  • FORD, R., 2008. Images of the earth, images of man: the mineralogical plates of the ·¡²Ô³¦²â³¦±ô´Ç±èé»å¾±±ð. In: LYLE, L. and MCCALLAM, D., eds., Histoires de la terre: earth sciences and French culture 1740-1940 Rodopi.
  • FORD, R., 2011. Common sense, common place? 'Bon sens' and the '·¡²Ô³¦²â³¦±ô´Ç±èé»å¾±±ð'. In: KOOPMANS, J.W. and PETERSEN, N.H., eds., Commonplace culture in Western Europe in the Early Modern Period: legitimation of authority Peeters. 115-130
  • FORD, R., ed., 2013. Digital scholarly edition of the correspondence of Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. Electronic Enlightenment Oxford University Press.

My teaching interests centre on eighteenth-century French literature and culture. I teach the second-year module 'Enlightenment Literature: An Introduction' (R12088) and the final-year module 'Peuple and Propaganda: Representing the French Revolution' (R13159)

Current Research

I am currently involved in preparing a new edition of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's Oeuvres completes, working with Simon Davies (QUB) on the Harmonies de la nature. I am also in the early stages of a new project exploring eighteenth-century French interest in the industrial landscape.

Past Research

My PhD thesis on the ·¡²Ô³¦²â³¦±ô´Ç±èé»å¾±±ð looked at the place and function of mineralogy in the ·¡²Ô³¦²â³¦±ô´Ç±èé»å¾±±ð and especially at the role of the baron d'Holbach, principal ·¡²Ô³¦²â³¦±ô´Ç±èé»å¾±±ð contributor on mineralogy (as well as author of radical articles on religion), key materialist philosophe and translator and disseminator of much German and Swedish knowledge of mineralogy. From 2006-14 I was involved in editing the first complete edition of the correspondence of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (published online through Electronic Enlightenment).

  • 2015. Nottingham French Studies. 54(2), 181-193
  • REBECCA FORD, ed., 2015. Edinburgh University Press.
  • 2013. . In: SHAUN REGAN, ed., Reading 1759: Literary Culture in Mid-Eighteenth Century Britain and France Bucknell University Press.
  • FORD, R., ed., 2013. Digital scholarly edition of the correspondence of Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. Electronic Enlightenment Oxford University Press.
  • FORD, R., 2011. Common sense, common place? 'Bon sens' and the '·¡²Ô³¦²â³¦±ô´Ç±èé»å¾±±ð'. In: KOOPMANS, J.W. and PETERSEN, N.H., eds., Commonplace culture in Western Europe in the Early Modern Period: legitimation of authority Peeters. 115-130
  • 2010. Une correspondance amicale: Bernardin et Mesnard de Conichard. In: CATRIONA SETH and ERIC WAUTERS, eds., Autour de Bernardin de Saint-Pierre: Les écrits et les hommes des lumières à l'empire Presses des Universités de Rouen et du Havre.
  • FORD, R., 2009. Nottingham French Studies. 48(3), 113-124
  • FORD, R., 2008. Images of the earth, images of man: the mineralogical plates of the ·¡²Ô³¦²â³¦±ô´Ç±èé»å¾±±ð. In: LYLE, L. and MCCALLAM, D., eds., Histoires de la terre: earth sciences and French culture 1740-1940 Rodopi.
  • DAVIES, S. and FORD, R., eds., 2007. Correspondence between Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and Mesnard de Conichard. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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