Anne-Claire Michoux

Anne-Claire Michoux is a postdoctoral researcher in the long eighteenth century at the University of Zurich, where she specialises in British and Irish literature, in particular fiction and drama, with a special focus on women's writing and gender studies. She trained at the universities of Oxford (B.A., M.Litt) and York (M.A.), before moving to Switzerland, where she completed her PhD at the University of Neuchatel. Her first book, Cultivating Simplicity: British National Identity in Romantic Era's Women's Writing, is currently under review. This monograph asks if, and how, Britishness was conceptualised at the turn of the nineteenth century and the role literature played in the circulation of debates about nationhood. Her current project, Dramatic Expressions: Women and Theatrical Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century, examines the representations of women's voices in eighteenth-century drama, including theatrical criticism, thespian biographies and autobiographies, and adaptations of Shakespearean and Restoration plays. She is a founding member of the Swiss Centre for Irish Studies and recently gave a public lecture at the Irish Festival in Fribourg on women's fiction in Ireland today.