Graham GARGETT
CURRICULUM VITAE
(as at 28/03/13)
Date of birth:
29 August 1945
Place of birth: Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham
Nationality:
British
Marital status: Single
Home address: 36A Portrush Road, Portstewart, N. Ireland BT55 7DD (tel.028-7083-5855: 0771814-3952; [email protected])
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
1967
B.A. (Hons) in French Studies, University of Reading (Class 1) (Academic year
1965-6 spent at University of Besançon)
1974
Ph.D. (‘Voltaire and Protestantism’), University of East Anglia
CAREER
1968-9
Lecteur d’anglais, University of Dijon
1970-71
Assistant associé, Department of English, University of Dijon
1971-81
Lecturer in West European Studies (French), New University of Ulster
1981-1984
Senior Lecturer in West European Studies (French), New University of Ulster
1984-1999
Senior Lecturer in French, University of Ulster
1999-2009
Professor of French Culture and Ideas, University of Ulster
2009-
Emeritus Professor of French Culture and Ideas, University of Ulster
PUBLICATIONS
Books authored and edited
Voltaire and Protestantism (Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation, 1980), 532pp.
Jacob Vernet, Geneva, and the ‘Philosophes’ (Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation,
1994),
588pp.
(edited with Geraldine Sheridan) Ireland and the French Enlightenment, 1700-1800 (Basingstoke:
Macmillan, 1999), 293pp.
(edited) Heroism and Passion in Literature: Studies in Honour of Moya Longstaffe (Rodopi:
Amsterdam, 2004), 282pp.
Recent Articles and Book Chapters
‘Oliver Goldsmith and Voltaire’s Lettres Philosophiques, The Modern Language Review, 96
(2001), pp.952-63
‘Perceptions des Anglais et des Irlandais dans la littérature française à l’époque des Lumières’,
Cahiers de l’Association Internationale des Études Françaises, no.54 (mai 2002), pp.211-31
‘Jacob Vernet, éditeur et admirateur de Montesquieu’, in Le Temps de Montesquieu, ed. Michel
Porret and Catherine Volpihac-Auger (Geneva: Droz, 2002), pp.107-25
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‘Jean-Louis Lecointe et ses propositions pour rétablir le protestantisme, 1766-8’, Dix-Huitième
Siècle, 34 (2002[2003]), pp.201-12
‘David-Renaud Boullier et l’orthodoxie éclairée’, in Refuge et Désert: l’évolution théologique des
Huguenots de la Révocation à la Révolution française: Actes du colloque du Centre d’étude du
XVIIIe siècle Montpellier, 18-19-20 janvier 2001, ed. Hubert Bost and Claude Lauriol (Paris:
Champion, 2003), pp.157-71
‘Toleration in later eighteenth-century Dublin: Voltaire and the Dublin and Hibernian magazines,
1762-84’, in Toleration and Religious Identity: The Edict of Nantes and its implications in France,
Britain and Ireland, ed. Ruth Whelan and Carol Baxter (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003), pp.21030
‘Goldsmith’s Memoirs of M. de Voltaire – Biography or Fantasy’, British Journal for EighteenthCentury Studies, vol.26, no.2 (Autumn 2003), pp.203-16
‘Goldsmith as Translator of Voltaire’, Modern Language Review, 98 (2003), pp.842-56
‘Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jacob Vernet and the Enlightened Liberty of Eighteenth-Century
Geneva’, in Liberté: Héritage du passé ou idée des Lumières, Freedom: Heritage of the Past or
an Idea of the Enlightenment (Biblioteka Badan nad Wiekiem Osiemnastym Studia, Nr 1)
(Kraków, Warsawa: Collegium Columbinum, 2004), pp.136-48
‘Genève au dix-huitième siècle: de la cité de Calvin au foyer des Lumières’, in The City in French
Writing: The Eighteenth-Century Experience/Écrire la ville au dix-huitième siècle, ed. Síofra
Pierse (Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2004), pp.136-61, 180-88
‘Jean-Pierre Droz, A Literary Journal and francophone influence on the “Irish Enlightenmen”’, in
France-Ireland: Anatomy of a relationship: Studies in History, Literature and Politics, ed. Eamon
Maher and Grace Neville (Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Oxford, etc.: Peter Lang, 2004),
pp.177-90)
Recent articles and book chapters in current Ref period (most suitable ones in bold)
‘Bdellium’, ‘Bethsamès, ou Bethshemesh’, and ‘Blasphème’ (edition of articles by Voltaire), in
Voltaire, Questions sur l’Encyclopédie (III), Les Œuvres complètes de Voltaire, vol.39 (Oxford,
Voltaire Foundation, 2008, pp.334- 355-59, 394-401
‘French Periphery, European Centre: Eighteenth-Century Geneva and its Contribution to
the Enlightenment’, in Peripheries of the Enlightenment, ed. Richard Butterwick, Simon
Davies and Gabriel Sánchez Espinosa (SVEC 2008:9, Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2008),
29–47.
‘Caveirac, Protestants and the presence of Voltairean discourse in late-eighteenth century
France’, in Voltaire and the 1760s: Essays for John Renwick, ed. Nicholas Cronk (SVEC
2008-10, Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2008), pp.123-32
‘L’anglais dans les contes de Voltaire’, Revue Voltaire, no.9 (2009), pp.271-87
‘Voltaire and the Bible’, in The Cambridge Companion to Voltaire, ed. Nicholas Cronk (Cambridge
University Press, 2009), pp.193-204
‘Clou, ‘Des crimes ou délits’, ‘Criminaliste’, ‘Criminel’, and ‘Droit canonique’ (edition of articles by
Voltaire), in Voltaire, Questions sur l’Encyclopédie (IV), Les Œuvres complètes de Voltaire, vol.40
(Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2009), pp.137-284-91, 292, 293-303, 538-71
‘Voltaire à l’école de la démocratie: “L’Affaire des Natifs”’, in Voltaire, la tolérance et la
justice, ed. John Renwick (La République des Lettres 41) (Louvain/Pairs, Peeters, 2011),
pp.189-210
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‘Grâce’ (edition of an article by Voltaire, in collaboration with Christiane Mervaud), in Voltaire,
Questions sur l’Encyclopédie (VI), Les Œuvres complètes de Voltaire, vol.42A (Oxford, Voltaire
Foundation, 2011), pp.140-46
Critical edition of Voltaire, Lettre curieuse de Monsieur Robert Covelle, Sur le livre du professeur
Vernet (5 juillet 1766), and Déclaration du 23 août 1766, in Les Œuvres complètes de Voltaire
(also Preface to the volume), vol.60C (Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2013), pp.xvii-xxiii, 191-218
(forthcoming later in 2013) Critical edition of Voltaire, Un chrétien contre six Juifs, in Les Œuvres
complètes de Voltaire (Oxford, Voltaire Foundation), vol.79B (the pagination in the proof is 1-337)
ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES WHILE AT U.U.
1991-1994
1994-2000
2000-2004
2000-2008
Senior Course Tutor for the Applied Languages Degree Course (French,
German, Spanish)
Course Director, Applied Languages
Head of French, University of Ulster
Research Coordinator of the French Unit of Assessment
Final Year Tutor to students studying French
MAIN TEACHING AREAS
French language; French literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; French
civilisation, in particular French political life and institutions, regionalism, decentralisation,
immigration, and religion in France; European culture (course on the creation of modern
European identity; contributions (in connection with France) to course on contemporary Europe
since 1989)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
2000-2006
2000-2003
2000 2009Member
Fellow
President, Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society
Vice-Treasurer, International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Member, Editorial Board of Eighteenth-Century Ireland
Member of the Conseil scientifique of the Œuvres complètes de Voltaire,
currently being published by the Voltaire Foudation at the University of Oxford
Société Française d’Étude du Dix-Huitième Siècle
The Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland
EXTERNAL EXAMINING EXPERIENCE
1981-1983
1981-1983
1982-1983
2007-2008
External Examiner in French at the National Institute for Higher Education,
Dublin (predecessor institution to Dublin City University)
External Examiner in French at the National Institute for Higher Education,
Limerick (predecessor institution to the University of Limerick)
External Examiner in French at Galway Regional Technical College
External Examiner for the European Studies with Languages BA Hons. Degree
programme at the University of Birmingham
ACADEMIC HONOURS AND DISTINCTIONS
2002
2005-2006
Hilary Term
March 2006
2008-
Senior Distinguished Research Fellow, University of Ulster
Visiting Fellow at Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford
Elected Member of the Royal Irish Academy
Senior Research Fellow at Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford
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Graham Gargett profiile
Graham Gargett was born in the North East of England. He was educated at the Johnston
Grammar-Technical School in Durham, later studying at the University of Reading, where he was
awarded a first-class B.A. Honours Degree in French (1967), then at the University of East
Anglia, where he obtained his Ph.D., on ‘Voltaire and Protestantism’, in 1974. He spent the third
year of his degree course at the University of Besançon, and later taught for two years in the
English Department of the University of Dijon, first as lecteur d’anglais and then as assistant
associé. He was appointed Lecturer in West European Studies (French) at the New University of
Ulster in 1971, becoming Senior Lecturer in 1981. He again taught English in France (19781980), at the Université du Val-de-Marne (Paris XII), during two years’ unpaid leave of absence
from NUU. After the merger of the New University of Ulster and the Ulster Polytechnic, he
became Senior Lecturer in French (1984), and was promoted to a personal chair, as Professor of
French Culture and Ideas, in 1999. He retired in September 2009, but was reappointed, to a parttime post, in 2013. Graham was awarded a Senior Distinguished Research Fellowship by the
University of Ulster in 2002 and was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2006. Since
2009 he has been an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Voltaire
Foundation. Graham was heavily involved in the twinning of Coleraine and the French town of La
Roche-sur-Yon in 1980 and was Vice-Chairman of Coleraine Twinning Association 1981-1984
and Vice President 2001-2004
Graham’s research interests are primarily Voltaire and the French Enlightenment, a field in which
he has published two major studies: an adapted version of his Ph.D. thesis, Voltaire and
Protestantism (1980), and Jacob Vernet, Geneva and the philosophes (1994), an account of the
relationship between Geneva’s most distinguished eighteenth-century pastor and theologian and
writers like Voltaire, Rousseau and d’Alembert. In the 1990’s Graham also became interested in
the influence of the French Enlightenment on Ireland, co-editing with Geraldine Sheridan
(University of Limerick) The French Enlightenment and Eighteenth-Century Ireland (1999). One
Irishman particularly influenced by Voltaire, Oliver Goldsmith, has been the subject of several of
Graham’s recent articles, and he is currently writing a book on the literary influence of Voltaire on
Goldsmith. He is also participating in the preparation of the complete works of Voltaire, published
by the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford.
Graham is a member of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society (Cumann Éire san Ochtú Céad
Déag), of which he was President from 2000 to 2006. He is a member of the Société Française
d’Étude du Dix-Huitième Siècle and a fellow of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
He has been external examiner in French at Limerick, Dublin (DCU) and Birmingham.
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