Clara Manco
Maître de conférences
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Présentation
Research themes
- Literature and history of the Restoration (1660-1700)
- Theatre history and practice, in particuliar its social and political dimensions
- Comedy studies
- Irony, satire and comic genres
- Gender in the long eighteenth century (1650-1800)
- History of emotions in the long eighteenth century (1650-1800)
Research supervision
In addition to the research themes listed above, I am happy to supervise research on translation and adaptation in the 17th and 18th centuries, including with a comparative angle (German, Italian).
Teaching
My teaching focuses on the history of gendered and racial representations in literature and the visual arts, with two specialty classes, “Representing Masculinity in the long eighteenth century”, “Generalogies of Race in British Literature, from the medieval to the ultra-contemporary”.
This year, I also teach Tristram Shandy for the agrégation (competitive national recruitment for prospective teachers).
Previously taught classes include “American Renaissance: the influence of 17th-century British over 19th-century American literatures” and “The Street in the long eighteenth century”.
I am also the coveynor of the Drama Workshop, with special attention to comedy.
Current projects
In June 2025 I co-organised, with Sorbonne Université and Sorbonne Nouvelle, a 3-day conference on Aphra Behn, followed by a performance of “The Town Fop” by students, with baroque music. A film version will soon be available.
This September, the conference “Le Non-dit / Things unsaid, things unwritten” closed a cycle started in June 2024 with “Consentir, refuser, céder / Consent, refuse, surrender”. Both conferences were organised with the IRCL in Montpellier. Papers will be published as a special issue of the journal of the Société d’Études Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles in December 2025.
My next project focuses on the history of emotions in the long eighteenth century in France and England, specifically the connections of two seemingly opposing ones, laughter and melancholy.
I am currently working on my first monograph, with the support of the SEAA 17-18.
Finally, I have the pleasure of being a member of the GIS Sociabilités network and of project DIGITENS.
Recent conferences
Nov. 2025: “Théâtre de la sidération II : Rire et comique”, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardennes.
July 2025: “Staging Silence”, University of Cambridge.
June 2025: “Traduire et adapter les plaisanteries de Molière”, University Lyon-2.
January 2025: seminar “Rethinking Literary Obscurity”, Université Paris Cité.
Biography
- Maître de Conférence / Assistant Professor at Université Paris Cité (since 2023)
- Lecturer at University of Cambridge (2018-23)
- PhD + Lecturer in Anglophone literature, Sorbonne Université (2020)
- École Normale Supérieure, Paris (until 2015)
- Lectrice at Oxford University (2014-15)
- Lecturer at Sorbonne Nouvelle (2013-14)
- Agrégation in English (2013)
- M.A. in Comparative literature, Sorbonne Université (2012)
- B.A. in German and B.A. in French literature (2006-09)
Autres publications
Publications
Edited books and special issues
- Special issue of the Revue de la Société d’Études Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, forthcoming.
- Le Jeu et ses règles dans l’Angleterre et la France des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, Line COTTEGNIES, Clara MANCO and Alexis TADIÉ eds., Classiques Garnier, Paris, 2025.
Book chapters
- “John’s Crowne’s The Destruction of Jerusalem: An adaptation of Racine’s Bérénice?”, in Le Théâtre classique français en Europe: transfert, traductions, adaptations (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle), Tristan ALONGE and Florence MARCH eds., Hermann, Paris, forthcoming.
- “Coffee-houses on the Restoration Comic Stage: Tarugo’s Wiles (1667) and other examples”, in La Représentation et la réinvention des espaces de sociabilité au cours du long XVIIIe siècle, Annick COSSIC-PÉRICARPIN and Emrys JONES eds., Le Manuscrit, Paris, 2021.
Peer-reviewed articles
- “‘The Cant he hopes will not be long unknown’: langages, pouvoir et espaces dans The Squire of Alsatia“, Revue de la Société d’Études Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, forthcoming.
- “Comedy and the Politics of Memory: Representations of the Civil War in Robert Howard’s The Committee and Thomas Otway’s The Souldiers Fortune”, Revue de la Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, 78, 2021.
- “Games and the Margins: Winning Fops and Gambling Women on the Restoration Comic Stage”, Etudes Epistémè : revue de littérature et de civilisation (XVIe – XVIIIe siècles), 39, 2021.
- “Structures comiques et double discours politique à la Restauration : l’exemple de The Surprisal de Robert Howard”, Etudes Anglaises, 72 (3), 2019.
Full list of publications