Department of French

Department of French

   

Philip Ford specialises in French and neo-Latin literature, with special emphasis on the relationship between humanism and writing, and between vernacular and Latin texts, particularly poetic ones. Publications include George Buchanan, Prince of Poets, a book on Ronsard's Hymnes (1997), an annontated edition of Jean Dorat, Mythologicum, ou interprétation mythologique de l'Odyssée X-XII et de L'Hymne à Aphrodite (Geneva: Droz, 2000), and proceedings of nine conferences organised in Cambridge on the French Renaissance. His most recent work is on the reception of Homer in the Renaissance: De Troie à Ithaque: Réception des épopées homériques à la Renaissance (Geneva: Droz, 2007). An Officier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques and Associate Fellow of the Royal Belgian Academy, he was elected to a Fellowship of the British Academy in 2009. He is currently President of the Fédération Internationale des Sociétés et Instituts pour l'Etude de la Renaissance, and Past President of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies.