Dr Warren Boutcher, University of London Research Fellow (September to December 2007)
Dr Warren Boutcher is Reader in Renaissance Studies in the Department of School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, University of London. Dr Boutcher was awarded the University of London Research Fellowship at the School of Advanced Study for 4 months, between September and December 2007.
Dr Boutcher's interdisciplinary research on intellectual history constitutes a major factor of his interest. Graduate of English Literature, Dr Boutcher's interest widens to the fields of anthropology, history, classics, with an incredible linguistic dimension, having worked on multi-language resources. Dr Boutcher's interdisciplinary and intercultural experiences have shaped his research on early modern and modern texts bridging all different studies of languages (English, French, Italian, neo-Latin, Spanish and Dutch).
Dr Boutcher's work during his fellowship focused on the completion of his book The School of Montaigne. The project attempts to rethink the origins of the modern critical reader at a moment when the humanities are under pressure to re-justify themselves to society at large. The Essais will mark the threshold at which "early modern" modes of reading, writing and thinking unmistakably begin to resemble our own.
View Dr Boutcher's fellowship report.
