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Dr BRUNO TRIBOUT The University of Aberdeen School of Language & Literature Lecturer work +44 (0)1224 272676 pref b.tribout@abdn.ac.uk pref Department of French School of Language & Literature University of Aberdeen A25 Taylor Building Old Aberdeen AB24 3UB

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Biography

I joined the Department of French at the University of Aberdeen in 2011, having previously taught in Canada and Ireland.

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Research Interests

Seventeenth-century French literature and culture, with a particular focus on:

• History of historiography
• Memoirs and life-writing
• Moral and political thought

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Research Grants

I have received research funding from: the Chancellerie des Universités de Paris/ Ministère de l’Éducation Nationale, France (2001; 2004); the Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture (2005); the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2006); the British Academy (2010) and the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (2011). I received a junior research fellowship from the Marsh’s Library, Dublin (declined as non-cumulative with permanent post - 2008). I was awarded the annual prize of the SATOR (2004) and the annual prize of the Association Internationale des Études françaises (2007).

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Teaching Responsibilities

I currently teach an Honours option course on early-modern French literature (‘Thought and Laughter’: Cyrano, Molière, La Fontaine, Voltaire, Diderot) and contribute to second year literature and culture courses as well as to the postgraduate MLitt in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies.

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Selected publications

Authored book

Les Récits de conjuration sous Louis XIV (Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, Éditions du CIERL, ‘Les collections de la République des Lettres’, 2010), x-657 pp. [Reviewed in: XVII^e siècle, 257 (2012), 745-48]

Critical editions

Trois conjurations du Grand Siècle (Paris: Hermann, ‘Bibliothèque des Littératures Classiques’, 2014) – in preparation

Contribution to the critical edition of Recueil de lettres nouvelles dit « Recueil Faret », ed. by Éric Méchoulan et al. (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, ‘Collection Textes rares’, 2008), 381 pp.

Edited book

(co-edited with Ruth Whelan) Narrating the Self in Early Modern Europe (Oxford: Peter Lang, ‘European Connections’, 2007), 333 pp.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

‘Retz et Mazarin : polémique et politique dans les Mémoires de Retz’, Studi francesi, 170 (2013) [forthcoming]

‘Écrire la Fronde pour Louis XIV: histoire épidictique et perspective critique dans le De rebus gallicis (1665) de Benjamin Priolo’, in two parts: part 1 in XVII^e siècle, 257 (2012), 693-704; part 2 in XVII^e siècle, 258 (2013) [forthcoming]

‘L’image de Mazarin dans De rebus gallicis de Benjamin Priolo’, Seventeenth-Century French Studies, 34/2 (2012), 102-14

‘Della Clemenza in tre testi di Shakespeare, Lope de Vega e Corneille, l’esame di una virtue del principe tra interesse personale e misericordia magnanimità’, Prometeo, 103 (2008), 22-29

‘La prudence dans les Mémoires de Retz’, Littératures classiques, 57 (2006), 99-119

‘Révolutions temporelles et conspirations politiques: la figuration du temps dans quelques récits de conjuration sous Louis XIV’, XVII^e siècle, 229 (2005), 693-712 [awarded the prize of the Association Internationale des Études Françaises in 2007; revised version published in Cahiers de l’Association Internationale des Études Françaises, 60 (2008), 409-27]

‘Des diables au seuil de la conscience moderne: raconter l’expérience de soi dans un fragment des Mémoires de Retz’, Intermédialités, 2 (2003), 77-99

‘Des récits de conjuration entre histoire et fiction’, Dalhousie French Studies, 65 (2003), 84-100

Chapters in books

‘Fronde et faction: les leçons de la guerre civile dans la première historiographie de la Fronde (1653-1665)’ [forthcoming]

‘Clémence et paradoxes de la “modernité” politique: en relisant Le Comte d’Essex et Cinna’, in Theatre, Fiction, and Poetry in the French Long Seventeenth Century, ed. by William Brooks and Rainer Zaiser (Oxford: Peter Lang, ‘Medieval and Early Modern French Studies’, 2007), pp. 301-14

‘Mémoires et imagination: remarques sur les fonctions d’une “reine du monde” chez Retz’, in Narrating the Self in Early Modern Europe, ed. by Bruno Tribout and Ruth Whelan (Oxford: Peter Lang, ‘European Connections’, 2007), pp. 101-20

‘Le corps funèbre dans La Mort de Pompée de Pierre Corneille’, in Représentations du corps dans la littérature d’Ancien Régime, ed. by Isabelle Billaud and Marie-Catherine Laperrière (Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 2007), pp. 215-27

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