Prof. A.C. Montoya (Alicia)

Professor - Department of Modern Languages and Cultures
Professor - Radboud Institute for Culture and History

Chair: French Literature and Culture

Contact

alicia.montoya@ru.nl
024-3612152

Visiting address

Erasmusplein 1
6525 HT NIJMEGEN

Postal address

Postbus 9103
6500 HD NIJMEGEN

Working days Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday

Alicia Montoya is Professor of French Literature and Culture, specializing in eighteenth-century studies. She is the author of Medievalist Enlightenment: From Charles Perrault to Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Cambridge 2013), Marie-Anne Barbier et la tragédie post-classique (Paris 2007, winner of the Keetje Hodson Prize of the Royal Dutch Society for Arts and Sciences) and the co-editor of several volumes, including Lumières et histoire / Enlightenment and History (Paris 2010). She is currently Principal Investigator on the ERC-funded MEDIATE project, and the recipient of the 2017 Ammodo-KNAW Award Humanities.

Research theme

Civic Fictions

Research group

DARIAH-EU Working Group 'Women Writers in History'

Tags: Enlightenment and eighteenth-century studies, Book history, Literary medievalism, French literature

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Key publications

Montoya, A.C. (2023). Civic Fictions. Modelling book-reader interactions in the Age of Revolution. Digital Enlightenment Studies, 1 (1), 59-80. doi: 10.61147/des.7 Full text
Montoya, A.C., Hulsbosch, M., Blom, H.M.C.W., Chayes, E., Jagersma, R., Reboul, J. & Wilde, A. de (2022). MEDIATE database (ongoing). MEDIATE [Dataset]. Full text
Montoya, A.C. (2021). Enlightenment? What Enlightenment? Reflections On Half A Million Books (British, French, And Dutch Private Libraries, 1665-1830). Eighteenth-Century Studies, 54 (4), 909-934. doi: 10.1353/ecs.2021.0097
Montoya, A.C. (2020). Shifting Perspectives and Moving Targets: from Conceptual Perspectives to Bits of Data in the First Year of the MEDIATE project. In S. Burrows & G. Roe (Eds.), Digitizing Enlightenment. Digital Humanities and the Transformation of Eighteenth-Century Studies (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment) (pp. 195-218). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press Full text
Montoya, A.C. (2018). Marie Leprince de Beaumont (1711 – 1780): A popular religious pedagogue. In U. Lehner (Ed.), Women, Enlightenment and Catholicism. A transnational biographical history (pp. 22-34). London: Routledge doi: 10.4324/9781315123394-3
Montoya, A.C. & Jagersma, R. (2018). Marketing Maria Sibylla Merian, 1720 – 1800. Book Auctions, Gender, and Reading Culture in the Dutch Republic. Book History, 21, 56-88. doi: 10.1353/bh.2018.0002 Full text
Montoya, A.C. (2013). Medievalist enlightenment. From Charles Perrault to Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Medievalism, 2). Cambridge: D.S. Brewer Full text

Prof. A.C. Montoya (Alicia)

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