Prof Terence Cave

Terence Cave CBE FBA is Emeritus Professor of French Literature, University of Oxford, and Emeritus Research Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford. His publications include The Cornucopian Text: Problems of Writing in the French Renaissance (1979), Recognitions: A Study in Poetics (1988), How to Read Montaigne (2007),  Mignon’s Afterlives: Crossing Cultures from Goethe to the Twenty-First Century (2011) and, as editor, Thomas More’s Utopia in Early Modern Europe (2008). Together with Sarah Kay and Malcolm Bowie, he is the joint author of A Short History of French Literature (2003), and he is currently a reader for the new Penguin English translation of Henrik Ibsen’s principal plays. In 2009, he won the Balzan Prize for literature since 1500 and from 2010-2013 was Director of The Balzan Interdisciplinary Seminar “Literature as an Object of Knowledge” at the St John’s College Research Centre, Oxford; he is currently helping to initiate continuation projects on cognitive approaches to literature. His recently completed book Thinking with Literature, which argues for the value of a cognitively inflected approach to mainstream literary studies, has been accepted for publication by Oxford University Press.