Dr Craig Moyes

Craig Moyes has a BA in English Literature and Philosophy from the University of British Columbia, a DEA in Littérature et civilisation françaises from the Université de Paris III and a PhD in Littérature comparée from the Université de Montréal. He was Director of Studies in French at Christ's College Cambridge before coming to King's.

Research Interests and PhD Supervision

• Early modern French and comparative literature
• Literary and poetic theory
• 20th- and 21st-century Québécois literature and film
• 17th- and 18th-century literature, especially as it relates to political and economic thought.

Craig Moyes would welcome doctoral students interested in early modern literature, or in Québécois literature and culture

Teaching

Craig Moyes teaches on a range of undergraduate and post-graduate modules

Expertise and Public Engagement

• Contributions to The Dictionary of Literary Biography, The Cambridge History of French Literature, Le Point, Prospect, BBC Radio, BFI, Institut français.

Selected Publications

‘Passeurs et passages sociocritiques. Pistes de lecture de Terre des hommes à “Speak White”’, Études françaises, vol. 58, n° 3, 2023 

Expo 67 and Its World: Staging the Nation in the Crucible of Globalization, edited by Craig Moyes and Steven Palmer (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022)

Marcelle Gauvreau, Lettres au Frère Marie-Victorin. Correspondance sur la sexualité humaine, edited and introduced by Yves Gingras and Craig Moyes (Montréal: Boréal, 2019)    

‘« Un réaliste et rien de plus »? Pour une lecture sociocritique du Roman bourgeois,’ Repenser le réalisme, edited by Claudia Bouliane and Bernabey Wesley (Montréal: Cahiers Remix, 2018) 

Furetière's Roman bourgeois and the Problem of Exchange: Titular Economies (Oxford: Legenda, 2013)

Affiliations

Member of CRIST (Centre de recherche interuniversitaire en sociocritique des textes, Montréal).

Member of Cercle 17-21 (Sorbonne nouvelle, Université de Paris III).