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REBECCA KING
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EMPLOYMENT

Oct 2013- Junior Research Fellow, Queen’s College, Cambridge

Project: ‘Monkeys and men, 1740-1840’

My project studies the image of the primate in the literature and philosophy of late eighteenth and
early nineteenth-century France. Beginning from the travel literature of the late Enlightenment, I
explore how the monkey was used as representative of the New World and as a figure to spark
polemical debate about the Old, tracing the image across the turn of the century in order to consider
the extent to which Revolution, Monarchy and Empire found their mirror image in tales of real and
fantastical beasts. I re-evaluate the use of these textual animals in the context of recent work on visual
representations of nature both in contemporary caricature and prints and on inlaid furniture,
considering how popular and elite culture used these images to different ends. My socio-historical
approach allows me to integrate my analysis into the existing narrative of the circulation of texts and
images around the Revolution, thereby contributing to both the literary and historical fields.

EDUCATION

2009 - 2013 DPhil in Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Oxford

Thesis: ‘‘Me voilà à Paris’: Goldoni in France, 1751-80’

Supervisor: Professor Alain Leroux; Examiners: Dr Edward Martin, Dr Mark Johnson
Thesis recommended for consideration in OUP Oxford Monographs series

2008 - 2009 MSt in Modern and Medieval Languages: The European Enlightenment,
University of Oxford

Distinction (ranked first of 26)

Dissertation: ‘Lost connections: love letters in Goldoni’s Trilogia di Zelinda e Lindoro’
Supervisors: Dr Kate Watson and Professor Nicholas Castle

2004 - 2008 MA (Oxon) in Modern Languages (French and Italian), University of Oxford

Congratulatory First Class Honours Degree (ranked second of 178)

Distinction in French and Italian Oral Examinations

1996 - 2003 Cardiff High School, Cardiff - 4 A-levels and 1 AS-level at A; 13 GCSEs at A*

RESEARCH ACTIVITY

RESEARCH NETWORK:
‘Animals and text’: an interdisciplinary research network for the Humanities in Oxford
Co-founder of research network for ECRs and postgraduates. Collaborated on defining theme, writing call for
interest, organising study day and seminar series, writing successful funding proposal (£1500) Project inspired
a successful Mellon Fellowship application from Senior Faculty.

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CONFERENCES ORGANISED:
Opening the zoo: the animal as image in the early modern’ – Postgraduate Study Day
The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, Oxford (25 Jan 2013).
Organised as part of the ‘Animals and text’ discussion network. Collaborated on planning, inviting speakers,
defining topics, and chairing discussion.

‘Words and Numbers/Les Mots et les Chiffres’ – Oxford French Postgraduate Conference 2011
Maison Française, Oxford (18-19 Feb 2011).
Organised as part of a team of three. Collaborated on choosing conference theme, writing call for papers,
selecting abstracts, selecting keynotes, and preparing and running the event. Personally wrote a funding
proposal resulting in £600 from the Oxford Modern Languages Faculty.

‘Les théâtres et leurs querelles’

Maison Française, Oxford (13 Nov 2009).
Organised as part of an international team of four. Collaborated on writing a funding proposal resulting in
£500 from the Oxford Modern Languages Faculty; jointly prepared and ran the event.

FORTHCOMING PAPERS:
‘Understanding authority: the case of Carlo Goldoni’
To be given at Enlightenment Workshop, Oxford University (March 2014).

‘Monkeys and men: the primate as polemical figure in the New World’
To be given in panel ‘The Politics of the Beast’, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual
Meeting, Williamsburg, Virginia (March 2014).

‘’Le singe qui rit’: polemical primates, monkey-fied monarchs’

To be given at Early Modern Studies Conference, Kent University (July 2014).

PAPERS GIVEN:
‘‘Ces comédiens et leurs désirs’: Carlo Goldoni and Parisian theatre’
Early Modern French Seminar, Cambridge University (Oct. 2013).

‘’O quante favole di me si scriveranno…’ Le personnage ‘Goldoni’ et ses avatars’

‘Le personnage de l'auteur dramatique’, Université Paris X (March 2013).

‘Me voilà à Paris: Goldoni in France’

Early Modern French Seminar, Oxford University (Feb. 2013).

‘Mapping theatrical Paris in the 1750s: from author to authority’

French Postgraduate Seminar, Oxford University (May 2012).

‘Name as Personnage: identity games in French and Italian theatre, 1750-55’

‘Understanding Identity’, Enlightenment Centre, Durham (Nov. 2011).

‘L’Anonymat à la Foire au 18e siècle: comment le comprendre?’

‘L’anonymat sous l’ancien régime’, Lyon (Oct. 2011).

‘Masks and mystery: anonymity at the Comédie-Italienne’

‘Anonymity and Pseudonymity’, James Jenkins Center, Montreal University (Nov. 2010).

‘L’acteur et l’auteur au Théâtre Italien. Goldoni et les querelles de la Comédie-Italienne’

‘Les théâtres et leurs querelles’, Maison Française, Oxford (Nov. 2009).

‘“L’immortal signor”: Montesquieu in Verri’s Il Caffè’

French Postgraduate Seminar, Oxford University (Jan. 2009).

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SEMINARS:
French Early Modern Seminar, Oxford University (attended 2008-2013).
Co-convened July 2011-April 2013; organised postgrad session 2012.
French Postgraduate Seminar, Oxford University (attended 2008-2013).
Groupe de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur l’Histoire du Littéraire. Paris 3/EHESS (attended 2010–11).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING

FRENCH LITERATURE
Lectures on eighteenth-century French Theatre (2014)
Design and delivery of lecture course for second and fourth-year students, for Oxford Modern Languages
Faculty. (4 hours)

Supervisions on eighteenth-century literature (2013-14)

For second-year students, Queen’s College, Cambridge. Paired tutorials. (8 hours)

Supervisions on French literature and film (2013-14)

For first-year students, Queen’s College, Cambridge. Group seminars and paired tutorials. (6 hours)

Seminar course on ‘French Thought’ (2011-13)

For first-year students across University of Oxford Modern Languages Faculty, covering Descartes, Rousseau,
Beauvoir, Bergson. Groups of 9. (7.5 hours per year)

Tutorials on Racine, Molière and general eighteenth-century topics (2011-3)

For second and fourth-year students, Magdalen College and St Hugh’s College, Oxford. Paired and individual
tutorials. (15 hours)

Assisted revision tutorials (2012)

Revision strategies and content discussion for a range of FHS papers. For St Hilda’s College, Oxford.
Individual tutorials. (18 hours)

FRENCH LANGUAGE
French Grammar classes for first-year students, including preparation of syllabus (2009-10; 2011-12)
As University of Oxford Modern Languages Faculty Heath Harrison Graduate Teaching Fellow. Uniformly
positive student feedback. (42 hours per year)

Translation (French to English), including preparation of syllabus (2009-10)

For first and second-year students, Christ Church, Oxford. Uniformly positive feedback on both teaching and
course structure. (16 hours)

Graduate Tutor – UNIQ Summer School, Oxford University (2010-12)

One week of French grammar classes for year 12 students considering university applications,
including preparation of syllabus. (6 hours per year)

OTHER
Feb 2012 ‘Teaching Modern Languages outside Oxford’ workshop, Oxford University
Dec 2010 Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
2010 – 2012 English Lectrice – Université de Paris-Ouest, Nanterre-La Défense
2009 – 2010 Modern Languages Faculty teaching training scheme & teaching portfolio.
2006 – 2007 English Language Assistant – Collegio Vescovile Barbarigo, Padua, Italy

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PRIZES AND AWARDS

2009 - 2013 AHRC Doctoral Award (suspended 2010-11 to teach in France).

2009 - 2013 New College Martin Senior Scholarship (suspended 2010-11 to teach in France).
2009 Oxford University Gerard Davis Prize for best MSt dissertation in French literary studies.
2008 New College Society Arts Prize for best performance in Finals in an Arts subject.
2008 Oxford University Junior Paget Toynbee Prize for writing on the works of Dante.
2008 New College award for outstanding academic excellence.
2005 - 2008 New College Scholarship for double distinction in First Public Examinations.

UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION / MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE

ADMISSIONS / ACCESS
2013 Admissions interviewer – Queen’s College, Cambridge University

July 2012 Academic programme co-organiser, French – UNIQ Summer School, Oxford University
Preparation and administration of five-day academic programme for year 12 students considering
university applications. Including co-running languages admissions session.

2011, 2012 Admissions interviewer – Wilson College, Oxford University

July 2009 College mentor – Sutton Trust Summer School, Oxford University

2005 - 2006 Careers and Admissions Rep – New College Junior Common Room
Editor of Alternative Prospectus, activities organisation during interviews, open days.

2004 - 2006 Target Schools Scheme – Oxford University

Widening access school visits; participation in Modern Languages open day; e-mentoring.

COMMITTEES / REPRESENTATIVE POSITIONS

From 2014 News Officer – MHRA Executive Committee
From 2012 Member of AHRC Research Careers and Training Network.
2012 - 2014 Postgraduate representative – MHRA Executive Committee.
2009 - 2010 President – Oxford Linguists Graduate Association
2009 - 2010 Secretary – New College Middle Common Room
Including sitting on two termly college-wide committees.
2008 - 2009 MSt course representative on Faculty Board and Graduate Studies Policy Committee.

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

Broadcasting in the Humanities Workshop, Oxford University Humanities Division

One-day workshop on public engagement and communicating research using radio (June 2012).

‘The Comédie-Italienne in 18th-century Paris: typecasting before its time?’

Poster presentation, Oxford Humanities Research Briefing Poster Showcase (June 2012).

‘Fame on the Enlightenment stage: the 18th-century ancestors of Hollywood’s stars’

Franks Society (cross-disciplinary graduate talks series), New College, Oxford (Feb 2012).
Talk repeated at Radley School (Oct 2012).

AHRC Broadcast Media Training Day

One-day workshop on communicating research using radio and broadcast media (June 2011).

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OTHER TRAINING

June 2011 Vitae National GRADschool, Bournemouth

Three-day skills course for doctoral students.
Sept 2010 ‘Careers in Academia’ workshop, Vitae
Jan 2009 ‘Managing your DPhil’ workshop, Oxford University Humanities Division
Dec 2008 British Library Modern Languages Postgraduate Training Day

OTHER ACTIVITIES

2013 Freelance Italian-English translation for Interlinguæ, international translation agency.

2012 Transcription of eighteenth-century French manuscripts for Prof Ivan Fedzarin.
2008 - 2011 French-English translation of a number of published academic papers and extracts for Christian
Biaz, Alain Leroux, Sarah Santarro, Stéphanie Lucie and the Voltaire Foundation.
2004 - 2012 Participation in various student theatre productions including co-directing and performing in a
production, in French, of Molière’s Les Précieuses Ridicules.
2004 - 2007 Short-listed for Student Reporter of the Year, Guardian Student Media Awards 2006 (final 5).
Published articles in the Guardian, the Times, the South Wales Echo and the Western Mail. Extended
work experience on the above publications and the Sunday Times, ITV Wales News and Reuters
Paris TV Bureau. News Editor and Associate Editor of The Oxford Student weekly newspaper,
2005-6.

FUNDING

2013 Project funding from the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (£1500).
Awarded to interdisciplinary project on Animals and Texts, which I co-founded.
2012 Research award from Owen Taylor Research Fund, Voltaire Foundation, Oxford (£250).
Awarded to conduct DPhil research in France.
2011 Conference funding from Oxford University Modern Languages Faculty (£600).
2011-2012 Extraordinary Academic Expenses funding from New College (£300).
Awarded to attend a conference and conduct research in France.
2011 AHRC Research Training Support Grant (£300).
Awarded to give a paper at an international conference in France.
2009-2012 AHRC Doctoral Award (fees and maintenance).
2009-2012 New College Martin Senior Scholarship (£200 per annum).
Two or three scholarships awarded annually, based on academic merit.
2009 Conference funding from Oxford University Modern Languages Faculty (£500).
2009 Travel award from Christina Drake Fund, Italy Faculty, University of Oxford (£500).
Awarded to conduct MSt research in Italy.

REFEREES

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APPENDIX 1
PUBLICATIONS

RESEARCH SUMMARY:
My thesis (currently being turned into a book) deals with Goldoni’s time in Paris. Eighteenth-century French theatre is
widely imagined to have revolved solely around the Comédie-Française, but in reality, theatrical Paris was a complex
network of different scènes. Among these was the Comédie-Italianne Paris’ second institutional theatre, but all too
frequently ignored or downplayed in historical accounts. Into this context, Carlo Goldoni arrived from Venice. His
career in Paris, like the history of the Comédie-Italienne, for a long time remained under-explored, dismissed as a
failure in dramatic terms. Although more recently both the Comédie-Italienne and Goldoni’s Parisian period have
begun to attract critical attention, their relationship to the rest of the contemporary cultural field is far from being
firmly established. My doctoral research brings these two under-studied cases together to explore the status of the
Italian theatre and its authors in eighteenth-century Paris. I employ a mixture of original archive research, data
analysis, historical context, close textual reading, and sociological theory to investigate how the structure of theatrical
Paris and the careers of dramatic authors were shaped by a perpetual struggle between economic and symbolic
considerations. This new perspective on the theatrical field reinstates the Comédie-Italienne as an important institution
in its own right, whilst my rereading of Goldoni’s time in Paris explains how and why his success in the moment was
retrospectively transfigured into failure. By re-evaluating Goldoni’s motivations, and the forces that structured the
theatrical world around him, I reveal how individual career trajectories must be considered not only in the context of
the field in which they take place, but also with respect to the short, medium and long-term aims driving their subjects
at any one moment.

ARTICLES:
‘’O quante favole di me si scriveranno…’. Goldoni et ses avatars’
To appear in the proceedings of the conference ‘Le personnage de l'auteur dramatique’ (t.b.c., forthcoming
2014).

‘L’acteur et l’auteur au Théâtre Italien. Goldoni et les querelles de la Comédie-Italienne’

Revue d’Histoire du Théâtre, 255 (2014), pp.24-38.

‘Introduction’ with Samantha Butler

MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities, 14 (2013)), pp.1-12.

‘Name as Personnage: identity games in French and Italian theatre, 1750-55’

Romance Studies, 38, 1-2 (April 2013), pp.121-44.

‘L’Anonymat à la Foire au 18e siècle: comment le comprendre?’

Littératures Classiques, 24 (2013), pp.12-21.

‘Introduction’ with Andrew Stevens

MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities, 13 (2012), pp.1-15.

‘Masks and mystery: anonymity at the Comédie-Italienne’

Modern Language Notes, 12, 2 (Oct. 2011), pp.722-34.

BOOKS/EDITED COLLECTIONS:
Matthew Forsyte & Rebecca King, eds, History of New College (London: General, forthcoming Feb. 2014) –
including original research and writing of three chapters.

King, Hammat, Lucie & Roux, eds, Les Théâtres et leurs querelles (1660-1848) (= Revue d’Histoire du Théâtre,
255 (2014-1)).

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Samantha Butler & Rebecca King, eds, Genius and Misunderstanding (= MHRA Working
Papers in the Humanities, 14 (2013)), <http://www.mhra.org.uk/ojs/index.php/wph/issue/view/29>.

Rebecca King & Andrew Stevens eds, The Universe in Literature (= MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities,
13 (2012)), <http://www.mhra.org.uk/ojs/index.php/wph/issue/view/33>.

CRITICAL EDITIONS:

Voltaire’s notes to Martin’s preface to Les Souris

Œuvres complètes (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, forthcoming).

An autobiographical article by Voltaire

Œuvres complètes (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2008) 1105b, pp.43-96.

REVIEWS:

- Bruce Dumont, Le Livre en France au XVIe siècle in Journal for Sixteenth-Century Studies (forthcoming 2014).
- Jean L. Camillo, The Lumières in Theory in French Studies, 12 (2013), pp.118-19.
- Maurice Korl, L’image érotique dans la littérature du 18e in French Studies, 11 (2012), p.413.
- Ed. Alex Kral, Representing Monarchs of the Enlightenment in Modern Language Notes, 12, 2 (Oct. 2011), pp.1021-
22.
- Frantz Salter, L’Autorité de la littérature in French Studies, 10, 4 (2011), pp.733-34.
- Eliza Ruhr, Styles of Philosophy in French Studies, 9 (2009), pp.482-83.

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