Staff profile
Professor Thomas Wynn
Professor
MPhil (Cantab), DPhil (Oxon)
| Affiliation | Room number | Telephone |
|---|---|---|
| Professor in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures | A38, Elvet Riverside I | +44 (0) 191 33 43465 |
| Member of the Centre for Intercultural Mediation | +44 (0) 191 33 43465 | |
| Member of the Centre for Visual Arts and Culture | ||
| Member of the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies |
Biography
My office hours are 9.00-11.00 on Tuesdays. Just drop by my office (A38) or email me so that we can set up a meeting.
My research focuses on theatre, spectatorship and libertinage in early modern French literature and culture.
My monograph Sade's Theatre: Pleasure, Vision, Masochism was published in SVEC in 2007; my critical edition of François II, roi de France, appeared in 2006; and my edition of rare erotic works by Delisle de Sales and Baculard d'Arnaud was published in 2011. In 2013 SVEC published my edited volume on the representations of violence in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, featuring articles on subjects such as Sade, trauma, and the mob in the French Revolution. In addition I have produced numerous critical editions for the Complete Works of Voltaire; my edition of the comedy La Prude waspublished in April 2017.
My translation of the Marquis de Sade's controversial The 120 Days of Sodom appeared with Penguin Classics in September 2016. This volume is the result of collaboration with Dr Will McMorran (Queen Mary, London); The Economist praised this 'excellent translation', calling its introduction 'scholarly and wise'. Will and I blog at thebadbooksblog, and our translation was awarded the prestigious Scott Moncrieff prize in March 2018.
I am currently working on two books; the first is about reading theatre and closet drama in the eighteenth century; the second is about Marie-Catherine Taperet, also known as Madame Lescombat (1728-1755), who achieved immense and enduring fame for her part in the murder of her husband.
I am happy to receive applications for PhDs on topics in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French literature and culture.
Publications
Authored book
Chapter in book
- Wynn, Thomas (2022). Le crime et la poétique dans le théâtre des Lumières. In Les Lumières du théâtre. Avec Pierre Frantz. Marchand, Sophie, Delon, Michel & Bret-Vitoz, Renaud Classiques Garnier. 257-264.
- Wynn, Thomas (2022). 'Les vertus les plus hautes, les fautes les plus graves': l'affaire Lescombat. In La vertu féminine, de la cour de Sceaux à la guillotine. Gladu, Kim, Huguette Krief & Bernier, Marc André Classiques Garnier. 233-247.
- Wynn, Thomas (2020). La Fête de Bellesbat. In Voltaire: Théâtre complet: Tome 1. Classiques Garnier. 541-578.
- Wynn, Thomas (2018). Réponse à M. de La Noue, auteur de la tragédie de Mahomet second. In Complete Works of Voltaire, vol. 78c. Voltaire Foundation. 165-173.
- Wynn, Thomas (2018). Translation, ethics and obscenity. In Erotic Literature in Adaptation and Translation. Kaminski, Johannes Legenda. 13-32.
- Wynn, Thomas (2017). ‘Les Cent Vingt Journées de Sodome': art brut, art brutal. In L'Atelier des idées. Pour Michel Delon. Berchtold, Jacques & Frantz, Pierre Paris: PUPS. 549-558.
- Wynn, Thomas (2017). La Prude, ou l’homme au franc procédé, comédie, imitée de l’anglais. In Micromégas and other texts (1738-1742). Cronk, Nicholas & Wynn, Thomas Voltaire Foundation. 20c: 113-304.
- Wynn, Thomas. & Waddicor, Mark (2016). Doutes nouveaux sur le testament attribué au cardinal de Richelieu; Arbitrage entre M. de Voltaire et M. de Foncemagne A reply to Foncemagne. In Complete Works of Voltaire, 58. Cave, Christophe & Wynn, Thomas Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 58: 343-526.
- Wynn, Thomas (2014). Compliment prononcé à l’ouverture du Théâtre-Français, le 11 avril 1763. In Complete Works of Voltaire 57A. Davies, Simon & Gargett, Graham Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 57A: 341-358.
- Wynn, Thomas (2013). Violence, vulnerability and subjectivity in Sade. In Representing violence in France 1760-1820. Wynn, Thomas Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2013: 139-160.
- Wynn, Thomas & Niklaus, Robert (2012). Les Scythes. In Complete Works of Voltaire: Theatre 1766-1767. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 61B: 257-470.
- Wynn, Thomas (2012). Charlot, ou la comtesse de Givry. In Complete Works of Voltaire: Theatre 1766-1767. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 61B: 471-606.
- Wynn, Thomas (2012). Sade et la théâtralité dans Quills, la plume et le sang (2001). In Images cinématographiques du siècle des Lumières. Jomand-Bury, Régine & Nuel, Martine Éditions Kimé. 125-136.
- Wynn, Thomas (2011). Prostitutes and erotic performances in eighteenth-century Paris. In Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture: sex, commerce and morality. Lewis, Ann & Ellis, Markman Pickering & Chatto. 7: 87-98.
- Wynn, Thomas (2011). Un roi en coulisse: le François II du président Hénault. In La Scène, la salle et la coulisse dans le théâtre du XVIIIe siècle en France. Frantz, Pierre & Wynn, Thomas Paris: PUPS. 95-106.
- Wynn, Thomas (2011). Libertinage. In The Cambridge History of French Literature. Burgwinkle, William, Hammond, Nicholas & Wilson, Emma Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 412-419.
- Wynn, Thomas (2011). The commonplace of theatre as a school of virtue: the case of Voltaire’s Tancrède (1760). In Commonplace Culture in Western Europe in the Early Modern Period III: Legitimation of Authority. Joop Koopmans & Nils Holger Petersen Leuven: Peeters. 131-149.
- Wynn, Thomas (2010). L’Hôte et l’hôtesse. In Complete Works of Voltaire. Writings of 1776-1777. Cronk, Nicholas Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 78A: 293-322.
- Henderson, John S. & Wynn, Thomas (2009). Tancrède. In Complete Works of Voltaire. Gargett, Graham & Gurrado, Antonio Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 49B: 259-263.
- Mason, H.T. & Wynn, Thomas (2007). Poème sur la loi naturelle. In Complete Works of Voltaire - Œuvres de 1750-1752 (II). Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 32B: 1-96.
- Wynn, Thomas (2006). Lettre d’un Turc sur les fakirs et sur son ami Bababec. In Complete Works of Voltaire - OEuvres de 1750-1752 (I). Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 32A: 143-158.
- Wynn, Thomas (2004). Masochisme et le tableau sadien. In Lire Sade. Norbert Sclippa Paris: L'Harmattan. 245-257.
Edited book
- Wynn, Thomas (2013). Representing violence in France 1760-1820. SVEC - Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford.
- Frantz, Pierre & Wynn, Thomas (2011). La scène, la salle et la coulisse dans le théâtre du XVIIIe siècle en France. Theatrum mundi. Paris: PUPS.
- Wynn, Thomas (2011). Delisle de Sales, Théâtre d’amour & Baculard d’Arnaud, L’Art de foutre, ou Paris foutant. MHRA Phoenix Vol. 3. MHRA (Modern Humanities Research Association).
- Wynn, Thomas (2006). Francois II, roi de France. By Charles-Jean-Francois Henault. MHRA Critical Texts, Vol 8. London: MHRA (Modern Humanities Research Association).
Edited Journal
Journal Article
- Wynn, Thomas (2016). An anecdote in the creation of Sade's 'Les 120 journees de Sodome'. French Studies Bulletin Winter 37(141): 94-98.
- Wynn, Thomas (2012). Collaboration and authorship in eighteenth-century French theater. Romanic Review 103(3-4): 465-481.
- Wynn, Thomas (2011). Voltaire, Marie-Antoinette and the politics of galanterie. French Studies 65(1): 17-29.
- Wynn, Thomas (2010). The problem of names and subjectivity in Corneille's Rodogune. Romanic Review 101(4): 673-687.
- Wynn, Thomas (2008). Sur la tragédie et la comédie: un manuscrit inédit du président Hénault. Revue d’histoire littéraire de la France 2008(2): 259-268.
- Wynn, Thomas (2007). Un théâtre démesuré et l’individu selon Sade. L’Annuaire théâtral 41: 29-39.
- Wynn, Thomas (2007). Le dialogue dans le théâtre érotique du XVIIIe siècle. SVEC 2005:07: 223-230.
- Wynn, Thomas (2006). A note on the authorship of Voltaire’s 'La Fête de Bélesbat’. French Studies Bulletin 27(101): 99-101.
- Wynn, Thomas (2006). Manon through the lens of Clouzot (1948): ‘images troublantes et précises’. French Cultural Studies 17(1): 73-85.
- Wynn, T. (2004). Decoration and imagination in four eighteenth-century adaptations of Gerusalemme Liberata and the Tancrède legend. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century (SVEC) 2004:07: 275-293.
- Wynn, Thomas (2003). Sade’s verse. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century (SVEC) 2003:01: 427-434.
Translated Book
- Wynn, Thomas & McMorran, Will (trans.) (2016). Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom . Penguin Books