Veronique Desnain

Dr Véronique Desnain (she/her) holds a PhD from the University of Bristol and is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of Hidden Tragedies: the social construction of gender in Racine (2001) and co-editor of Culture and conflict in seventeenth-century France (2004) as well as journal articles and book chapters on 17th century French drama and French Crime Fiction. She is currently working on the first translation into English of Suchon's Le Célibat Volontaire for Hackett publishing, in collaboration with Dr Derval Conroy. Véronique’s research interests include:

• Early Modern French Literature and Philosophy (in particular the works of Gabrielle Suchon)
• 17th Century French Theatre
• Contemporary French Crime Writing

Her recent outputs include:

• Véronique Desnain (2021) The Paradoxes of Religion in Gabrielle Suchon, Early Modern French Studies, 43:1, 70-87, DOI: 10.1080/20563035.2021.1924009
• Desnain, V. (2020). Le détective, Le journaliste, et la vérité. In M. Roche, & E. G. (Eds.), Roman noir et journalisme; en quête de vérité (Vol. 37, pp. 15-38). Presses Universitaires Savoie Mont Blanc.
• Desnain, V. (2016). The state we’re in: Global politics and economics in the novels of Dominique Manotti. In A. Pepper, & D. Schmid (Eds.), Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction: A World of Crime (Vol. N/A, pp. 79-98). (Crime Files). Palgrave Macmillan.