James Hanrahan Bcl
Assistant Professor
Languages, Literature and Cultural studies
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Dr James Hanrahan is a graduate of University College Cork (BCL, Law and French, 1998-2002) and the University of Edinburgh (PhD, 2003-2007). His doctoral study was funded by the Leverhulme Trust, and included one year as a pensionnaire étranger at the Ecole normale supérieure (rue d'Ulm). He worked as a Lecturer in French at NUI Galway (2006-2008) and NUI Maynooth (2008-2010) before taking up the post of Ussher Assistant Professor in Eighteenth-Century French Studies at Trinity in 2010. He was a Voltaire Foundation Visiting Fellow at Linacre College, Oxford, in January-February 2008 and was awarded an IRCHSS CARA Post-Doctoral Fellowship in 2010. He has been a member of the executive committee of ADEFFI since 2009 and is currently Vice-President of the Association.
Research Interest
My research focuses on the literature, history, politics and culture of Enlightenment France. My doctoral research focused on Voltaire and his relationship with the supreme courts of ancien régime France. I contribute as an external editor to The Complete Works of Voltaire, published by the Voltaire Foundation, Oxford. I have written critical introductions to a range of Voltaire's shorter works and have worked as part of a team of academics annotating the definitive editions of the Essai sur les mœurs and Questions sur l'Encyclopédie. I am also interested in and have published on the concept of public opinion and its impact on politics and society, from the eighteenth century up to the present. I am currently preparing a critical edition of Voltaire's Précis du siècle de Louis XV and, in parallel, working on the concept of origins in Enlightenment thought.
Publications
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ppealing and appearing to reason: Voltaires political pamphlets of 1771 and public opinion in, editor(s)Ursula Haskins Gonthier , Opinion, nature, culture, Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2007, pp31 - 40, [James Hanrahan], Notes: [Reviewed by Edward Ousselin, French Studies (2009), 63(2), 213-14
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Creating the cri public: Voltaire and public opinion in the early 1760s in, editor(s)Nicholas Cronk , Les années 1760-1770: une grande décennie voltairienne. Mélanges offerts à John Renwick, Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2008, pp145 - 158,
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James Hanrahan, The Cambridge Companion to Voltaire, Nicholas Cronk (ed), H-France.net Review, 9, (154), 2009, p666 - 669, Review Article, PUBLISHED
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Literary crimes and innovation against punishment: Voltaire and the censorship authorities before 1750 in, editor(s)Louise Hardwick , New Approaches to Crime in French Literature, Thought and Culture , Bern, Peter Lang, 2009, pp137 - 150, [James Hanrahan], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
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James Hanrahan, Voltaire and the Parlements of France, Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2009, Notes: [Part of the SVEC series (06:2009) Reviewed by Catherine Daniélou, French Review 83.6, July 2010, 1366-67 Reviewed by Edward Ousselin, French Studies (2010), 64 (3), 347], Book, PUBLISHED
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James Hanrahan, Un texte inédit de Voltaire: le Nouveau mémoire du sieur Decroze, Revue Voltaire, 10, (10), 2010, p269 - 282, Notes: [This article introduces and analyses a perviously unpublished pamphlet by Voltaire from 1761. The pamphlet itself is also reproduced.], Journal Article, PUBLISHED
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Nicholas Cronk and Christiane Mervaud, A Significant Enlightenment Text Fallen between the Cracks of Editorial History, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 45, (1), 2011, p157 - 160, Review Article, PUBLISHED
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James Hanrahan, Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire, vol.24, Essai sur les moeurs, ch.68-102, 2011, - pp.493-536, Notes: [Annotation of ch.97-100 of critical edition of Voltaires Essai sur les moeurs], Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
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James Hanrahan and Mairéad Nà Bhriain, Intellectuals and Public Opinion: An Evolving Dynamic, Irish Journal of French Studies, 10, 2011, p1 - 18, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
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Irish Journal of French Studies, Special Issue: Intellectuals and Public Opinion: A Transhistorical Perspective, (2011), 131pp, James Hanrahan and Mairéad Nà Bhriain, [eds]
