Historian of Georgian Britain, currently researching shoes. President of @BSECS.bsky.social. Views my own but not necessarily original.

Pr. of 18th-century studies at Université Paris Nanterre: literature and the sciences; translation and history thereof. Biographe officielle du Traducteur Fou™.

Showcases research in long nineteenth-century studies. Housed in the School of English @ Manchester Metropolitan University.

18th-century cultural history, French literature, art etc. Currently Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature, University of Oxford/All Souls College