Nicholas Cronk#
| Membership Number: | 6822 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/people/nicholas-cronk/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1997 - present Director of the Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford
- 2000 - present General editor, Œuvres completes de Voltaire
- 2018 - present Professor of European Enlightenment Studies, Oxford
- 2005 - 2018 Professor of French Literature, Oxford
- 2019 - present Senior Fellow, Turin Humanities Programme, Fondazione 1563
- 2015 - 2016 Fellow of Institute in Digital Textual Studies, National
- Humanities Center, North Carolina
- 2015 Visiting Professor, ITEM/CNRS, Paris
- 2013 - 2014 Fellow, Institut d’Études Avancées, Paris
- 1985 - 2003 University Lecturer in French Literature, University of Oxford
- 1985 - present Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford
- 1982 - 1985 Junior Research Fellow, Pembroke College, Oxford
Fields of Scholarship
- Enlightenment thought
- Voltaire
- 18th-century history of the book
- Digital Humanities
- 18th-century French literature
- 18th-century correspondence
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Hon. D. Litt. (McGill)
- 2010 Prix Hervé Deluen, Académie française
- 2010 BSECS Digital Prize
- 2002 Chevalier dans l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- 2001 Officier des Palmes académiques
