Emma Bartel
Maîtresse de conférences
Présentation | Ouvrages | Autres publications | Valorisation
Présentation
- history of knowledge (17th-18th c. Britain)
- intellectual and cultural history
- women’s history
- history of science and religion
Research Supervision:
- intellectual, social and cultural history of the British Isles (1550-1800)
- women’s history
- religious history
- literary history
Research projects:
- Monograph project: Women and the Art of Meditation in Early Modern England (Manchester University Press)
- Portable Knowledge in the British Isles and the Early American Colonies (1600-1800). A project on the materiality of modes of attention through paper technologies such as pocket books, commonplace books, how-to manuals, table books, account books, almanacs and shorthand writing
- Widening the Archival Search: Women and Informal Science in the British Isles (1650-1800)
Biography:
- 2024 – : Associate Professor, Université Paris Cité
- 2024: Francis Bacon Foundation Fellow (Huntington Library, Los Angeles)
- 2023-2024: Lecturer (British History), Sorbonne Université
- 2023, Ph.D., Sorbonne Université
- 2023: Lecturer at the American University of Paris
- August 2022: Fellowship at la Maison Française d’Oxford (Oxford, UK
Locke seminar (co-convener)
https://philosophie.pantheonsorbonne.fr/evenements/seminaire-locke-2025-2026
Paris Early Modern Seminar (coordinator between 2025-2027)
Ouvrages
Autres publications
Selected Publications:
- 2023: Co-editor of the special issue Genre Trouble in Early Modern England, Sillages Critiques [Online, open access], 34 (2023) with Katie Ebner-Landy (Queen Mary University of London) https://doi.org/10.4000/sillagescritiques.14122
- 2025 Book chapter co-written with Dr Louise Fang (Sorbonne Paris Nord), ‘Playful Authorial Strategies in Mary Evelyn’s manuscripts’, in Le Jeu et ses règles en France et en Angleterre (xvie-xviiie siècle) [The Rules of the Game in the Early Modern Period], eds. Line Cottegnies, Clara Manco and Alexis Tadié, Classiques Garnier.
- 2025: Book chapter, ‘Seeing God in the Reflection of a Saucepan: Lady Mary Rich (1624-1678) and the Art of Occasional Meditation’, in Corpus Feminae: Identité auctoriale et matérialité des écritures féminines en Europe XVIe-XVIIIe siècles, ed. Aurélie Griffin, Marion de Lencquesaing et Guillaume Coatalen, Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal
- 2026: Book review, Julie Vanparys-Rotondi, La Réforme au féminin : Katherine Parr, Elizabeth Tyrwhit et Anne Askew, Revue des Sciences Religieuses, Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2023, https://doi.org/10.4000/15yy7
- 2026: (in progress) Book Chapter ‘Essex 1663: Popularizing the Practice-Based Genre of the Meditation in Early Modern Europe’ in Europe and the World: A Literary History, 1545-1683, ed. Warren Boutcher (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
- 2026: (in progress) Book chapter ‘Widening the Archival Search: Sarah Cowper, Commonplacing and Philosophical Inquiry in Seventeenth-Century England’ in Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Europe, ed. Helena Taylor (Brill, Studies in Intellectual History). Open access.
- 2027: Forthcoming monograph: Women and the Art of Meditation in Early Modern England (Manchester University Press)
