Notes on the Editors
Raphaële Garrod
is associate professor of early modern French at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Magdalen College. She works at the intersections of literature and intellectual history in early modern France and Europe.
Raphaële Garrod is the author of Cosmographical Novelties in Renaissance French Prose: Dialectic and Discovery (1575-1630) (2016), and the co-author with Alexander Marr, José Ramon Marcaida and Richard Oosterhoff, of Logodaedalus: Word Histories of Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe (forthcoming). She is the co-editor, with Yasmin Haskell, of Changing Heart: Performing Jesuit Emotions in Europe, Asia and the Americas (2018), and the editor of a forthcoming volume on Descartes and Ingenium.
Paul J. Smith
is Professor of French literature at Leiden University. His research focuses on 16th, 17th, and 20th century French literature, its reception in the Netherlands, French and Dutch fable and emblem books, literary rhetoric and intermediality. He has also published on animal symbolism and early modern zoology, and its presence in art and literature. His main book publications include Voyage et écriture. Etude sur le Quart Livre de Rabelais (1987), Het schouwtoneel der dieren. Embleemfabels in de Nederlanden (1567-ca. 1670) (2006), Dispositio. Problematic Ordering in French Renaissance Literature (2007), and Réécrire la Renaissance, de Marcel Proust à Michel Tournier. Exercices de lecture rapprochée (2009) He is co-author of Francis Ponge: lectures et méthodes (2004), editor of Editer et traduire Rabelais à travers les âges (1997), Translating Montaigne (2011) and co-editor of Lectures de René Char (1990), Fabuleux La Fontaine (1996), Le paradoxe en linguistique et en littérature (1996), Montaigne and the Low Countries (1580-1700) (2007), Early Modern Zoology. The Construction of Animals in Science, Literature and the Visual Arts (2007), and Emblems and the Natural World (2017). He is member of the editorial board of Intersections, Neophilologus, Montaigne Studies, and Renaissance and Reformation.