Dr. Hélène Cazes
Position
Contact
Credentials
PhD (Paris X-Nanterre)
Area of expertise
Early Modern French/European Literature, Humanism and Book Culture, History of Medicine and Gender, Republic of Letters
Hélène Cazes has been teaching at the French Department at Uvic since 2001. Interested in the tradition and reception of knowledge, icons, ideas —and even fake science —, she uses literary theory and methodology for readings of medieval and Early Modern texts; she has published collections of essays and numerous papers on editorial mediations, book culture, friendship in the Republic of Letters, medical humanities and bibliography. She is the director of the Open Journal Topiques, Études Satoriennes and Associate Editor of Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme.
See also www.helenecazes.info