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Michael Moriarty was Drapers Professor of French from 2011 to 2023. He is a graduate of St John’s College. From 1982 to 1995 he was a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, and from 1986 to 1995 a University Lecturer in French. Between 1995 and 2011 he was Professor of French at Queen Mary, University of London. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques. His research deals with early modern French literature and thought. His most recent book is Pascal: Reasoning and Belief (Oxford University Press, 2020). He is the co-editor (with Jeremy Jennings) of The Cambridge History of French Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Early modern French literature (16th to 18th centuries).
Intellectual history.
History of French thought, 16th to 18th centuries, especially Descartes and Pascal.
Seventeenth-century French literature.
Professor Moriarty welcomes inquiries from potential MPhil and PhD students with research interests relevant to his interests.
Taste and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century France (Cambridge University Press, 1988)
Roland Barthes (Polity Press, 1991)
Early Modern French Thought: the Age of Suspicion (Oxford University Press, 2003)
Fallen Nature, Fallen Selves: Early Modern French Thought II (Oxford University Press, 2006)
Disguised Vices: Theories of Virtue in Early Modern French Thought (Oxford University Press, 2011).
Pascal: Reasoning and Belief (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020)
Co-edited with Nicholas Hammond:
Evocations of Eloquence: Rhetoric, Literature and Religion in Early Modern France; A Festschrift for Peter Bayley (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2012).
Co-edited with Jeremy Jennings:
The Cambridge History of French Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019)
