François Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention: Ingenious Animation (Oxford-Warburg Studies)

François Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention: Ingenious Animation explores the medical poetics of inventive, embodied thinking or ingenuity instantiated in Rabelais's Gargantua and, mostly, his Quart livre.

Raphaële Garrod, Associate Professor of French, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford

Raphaële Garrod is tutorial fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford and Associate Professor of Early Modern French at the University of Oxford. She obtained her PhD in early modern French from Trinity College, Cambridge, and went on to several postdoctoral positions in Cambridge and Australia. She was a secondary-school teacher in France before embarking on postgraduate studies in the UK.
Her current work focuses on conceptions and representations of the human at the intersection between early modern intellectual history (especially history of science) and poetics in XVIth- and XVIIth-French and European texts.