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Tim Chesters is a specialist in sixteenth-century French literature and thought. He is the author of听Ghost Stories in Late Renaissance France: Walking by Night听(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), as well as of a number of articles on early modern French demonology, Ronsard, and Montaigne. Other research interests and publications bear on attitudes to the French Renaissance among nineteenth-century writers and thinkers (with a particular emphasis on Flaubert), and on cognitive approaches to literature, especially in Renaissance contexts. He has reviewed for听French Studies,听Modern Language Review, and the听Times Literary Supplement.
Dr Chesters听welcomes inquiries from potential听MPhil听and PhD students听with research interests relevant to听his听interests.