Timothy Chesters specialises in sixteenth-century French literature and thought. He is the author of Ghost Stories in Late Renaissance France: Walking by Night (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), as well as of a number of articles on Rabelais, Calvin, Montaigne, Ronsard, Louise Labé and early modern history of the book. He is currently writing a monograph called The Effect of French Renaissance Poetry: Literature and Efficacy (1520-1585), a study of the connection between poetry and natural magic. 

Dr Chesters welcomes enquiries from potential MPhil and doctoral students with research interests relating to any aspect of French Renaissance literature and culture, the history of the book, or cognitive approaches to literature.