Professor Line Cottegnies
IAS Open Programme
Sorbonne Université
Line Cottegnies teaches early-modern literature at Sorbonne Université. She is the author of a monograph on the politics of wonder in Caroline poetry, L’Éclipse du regard (Droz, 1997), and has co-edited several collections of essays, including Authorial Conquests: Essays on Genre in the Writings of Margaret Cavendish (AUP, 2003, with Nancy Weitz), Women and Curiosity in the Early Modern Period (Brill, 2016), with S. Parageau, and Henry V: A Critical Guide (Bloomsbury, 2018), with Karen Britland.
She has published on seventeenth-century literature from Shakespeare and Raleigh to Mary Astell. Her research interests are early-modern drama and poetry and women authors. She has edited half of Shakespeare's plays for the bilingual complete works (alone and in collaboration), and Henry IV, Part 2, for The Norton Shakespeare 3 (2016).
With Marie-Alice Belle, she has co-edited two Elizabethan translations of Robert Garnier (by Mary Sidney Herbert and Thomas Kyd), published in 2017 in the MHRA Tudor and Stuart Translation Series. She is currently working on an edition of three Behn’s translations from the French for the Cambridge Complete Works.