Catriona Seth

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Professor
Catriona Seth
Seth in 2016
Born (1964-08-30) 30 August 1964 (age 59)
Worsthorne, Lancashire, England
NationalityBritish
TitleMarshal Foch Professor of French Literature (2015–present)
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
Discipline
History of ideas
Sub-discipline
Institutions

Catriona Jane Seth,

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Early life and education

Seth was born on 30 August 1964 in

British citizenship.[2] She was brought up in England, Scotland, Switzerland, Belgium, and South America.[3][4] She was educated at Colegio Francia in Caracas, Venezuela, at Lycée Sainte-Croix in Fribourg, Switzerland, and at Lycée français de Belgique in Belgium.[1]

Seth studied law and modern languages (French and Spanish) at

doctoral thesis was on Évariste de Parny, the 18th-century French poet,[6] and was supervised by Sylvain Menant.[7]

Academic career

Seth spent most of her academic career teaching in France. She completed the

Queen's University, Belfast.[5] She has been a visiting professor at Indiana University (Bloomington, USA), at the Université de Gafsa (Tunisia) and at the University of Augsburg (Germany);.[8][9]. She has been a Guest Researcher at the University of Bergamo (Italy), a Bogliasco Foundation Fellow, a Chawton House Fellow and was Senior Anniversary Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) of the University of Edinburgh in 2023.[10]

On 1 October 2015, she was appointed

Honours

In October 2012, Seth gave the fifth annual Burgerhartlezing (Burgerhart Lecture) under the title Nobody's Children? Foundlings, Identity and Individual Rights in the Enlightenment.[12] In March 2014, she gave the John Rule Memorial Lecture at the University of Southampton.[13]

In July 2017, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[14][15] She was appointed an associate member of the Académie Royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique in June 2018.[16]

In July 2018, Seth was awarded an honorary doctorate "for services to education" by Queen's University Belfast.[17]

In 2019, Seth was elected a Fellow of the Academia Europaea.[18]

Selected works

References

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    Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 2016 accessed 30 Aug 2017 Archived 21 June 2020 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Seth, Catriona". European Union Democracy Observatory on Citizenship. European University Institute. Archived from the original on 30 August 2017. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
  3. ^ a b "Professor Catriona Seth". Find An Expert. University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 23 June 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
  4. ^ "An interview with Prof. Dr. Catriona Seth". eMAG. Sprachenzentrum Universität Augsburg. 26 July 2017. Archived from the original on 30 August 2017. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Professor Catriona Seth". All Souls College. University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 30 August 2017. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
  6. ^ a b "Curriculum vitae: Catriona Seth" (PDF). Conseil Franco-Britannique. June 2015. Archived (PDF) from the original on 31 August 2017. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
  7. ^ a b Seth, Catriona (1995). Évariste Parny (1753-1814). theses.fr (These de doctorat). Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
  8. ^ "An interview with Prof. Dr. Catriona Seth – eMag Uni Augsburg". 26 July 2017. Archived from the original on 30 August 2017. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
  9. ^ "Erstmals zwei Gastprofessuren für transnationale Forschung am Jakob-Fugger-Zentrum". Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
  10. ^ "Professor Catriona Seth | IASH".
  11. ^ a b "Appointments - Marshal Foch Professorship of French Literature". Oxford University Gazette. 146 (5107). University of Oxford. 1 October 2015. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
  12. ^ "Burgerhartlezing 2012" (PDF). Werkgroep 18e Eeuw. 4 October 2012. Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 December 2013. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
  13. ^ "John Rule Memorial Lecture - Event". Department of History. University of Southampton. Archived from the original on 30 August 2017. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
  14. ^ "Elections to the British Academy celebrate the diversity of UK research". British Academy. 2 July 2017. Archived from the original on 23 July 2017. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
  15. ^ "Professor Catriona Seth". The British Academy. Archived from the original on 17 April 2023. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
  16. ^ "Catriona Seth elected to Académie Royale de Belgique". British Academy. Archived from the original on 1 July 2018. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
  17. ^ "Leading Malaysian Scientist and Professor in literature honoured by Queen's University". Queen's University Belfast. 19 April 2016. Archived from the original on 20 October 2018. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  18. ^ "Academy of Europe: Seth Catriona". Archived from the original on 26 September 2021. Retrieved 21 November 2019.