RUIMI Jennifer

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Jennifer Ruimi is a lecturer at the University of Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 and a member of the Institute for Research on the Renaissance, the Neo-Classical Age, and the Enlightenment (IRCL, UMR 5186). Her research focuses on eighteenth-century drama. She is the author of La Parade de société au 18^e siècle, une forme dramatique oubliée (Champion, 2015) and is currently working on a new project on theatre and health in the eighteenth century. She has also co-edited, among other volumes, Théâtre et charlatans dans l’Europe moderne (Presses de la Sorbonne-Nouvelle, 2018), Espaces des théâtres de société : Définitions, enjeux, postérité (Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2020), and Théâtre et société : réseaux de sociabilité et représentations de la société (revue Études de Lettres, 2022).

Research subject areas :

• 17th–18th-century theatre
• Unofficial forms of theatre in the eighteenth century (‘théâtre de la Foire’ or fairground entertainments, ‘théâtre de société’)
• Relationship between literature and society in the 18th century
• 18th-century literature and gender studies
• Literature and medical knowledge; representations of the body (16th–18th c.); medical humanities
• Digital humanities