VIENNE-GUERRIN Nathalie

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Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin is a Professor in Shakespeare Studies 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, UMR5186 CNRS). She is a specialist of insult and evil tongues in the Elizabethan world and has notably published The Unruly Tongue in Early Modern England: Three Treatises, (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2012). She is the author of Shakespeare’s Insults: A Pragmatic Dictionary (Bloomsbury, 2016); The Anatomy of Insults in Shakespeare’s World (Bloomsbury, 2022). She is co-general editor, with Sarah Hatchuel, of the Shakespeare on Screen series published by Cambridge University Press. She is co-editor of the international journal Cahiers Élisabéthains (Sage) and of the multidisciplinary open access journal Arrêt sur Scène/Scene Focus (OpenEdition). She co-directs, with Patricia Dorval, the ‘Shakespeare on Screen in Francophonia’ programme. She is currently President of the European Shakespeare Research Association.

Research subject areas :

• Insults in Shakespeare’s world
• Injurious language in the Renaissance (insults, curses, slander, lies, blasphemy)
• Shakespeare on screen

Research activities:

• Édition et analyse de traités de la langue (« tongue treatises ») dans l’Angleterre des XVIe et XVIIe siècles
• Conception and implementation (with Sarah Hatchuel) of the series Shakespeare on Screen
• Co-manager, with Patricia Dorval, of the implementation of the database Shakespeare on screen in francophonia.

Teaching :

16th–17th-century English literature

Academic and administrative endeavours :

• Member of the Scientific Council of University of Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3
• Responsible for the joint PhD programme MOVES (H2020)
• President of the InSHS Scientific Council since 2019 (CNRS)