Professor Michael Moriarty

Michael Moriarty is Drapers Professor of French at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Peterhouse. He read Modern and Medieval Languages at St John’s College, and was a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, where he directed studies in Modern and Medieval Languages, from 1982 to 1995. From 1995 to 2011 he was Professor of French Literature and Thought at Queen Mary, University of London. His publications include Taste and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century France (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), Roland Barthes (Cambridge: Polity, 1991), Early Modern French Thought: the Age of Suspicion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), Fallen Nature, Fallen Selves: Early Modern French Thought II (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), and Disguised Vices: Theories of Virtue in Early Modern French Thought (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques.

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