Ingrid A. R. De Smet#
| Membership Number: | 5183 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/modernlanguages/academic/ids |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 - 2018 University of Warwick: Academic Director, Warwick in Venice
- 2014 University of Warwick: Professor of French and Neo-Latin Studies (School of Modern Languages & Cultures)
- 2008 - 2011 and 2014-2018 University of Warwick: Director, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance
- 2006 - 2015 University of Warwick: Associate Professor, then Reader (from 2007) in French
- 2001 - 2005 University of Warwick: Senior Lecturer in French
- 1997 - 2001 University of Warwick: Lecturer in French
- 1995 - 1997 Magdalen College, Oxford: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
- 1993 - 1996 Magdalen College, Oxford: Fellow by Examination (Prize Fellow)
- 1987 - 1989 KU Leuven, Seminarium Philologiae Humanisticae: Research assistant
Fields of Scholarship
- Neo-Latin
- History of the book
- Renaissance
- Early modern intellectual culture
- History of hunting
- Classical tradition and history of scholarship
- Republic of letters
- French
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Fellow of the British Academy, for distinction in research
- 2011 - 2014 Leverhulme Major Research Fellow
- 2009 - 2013 PI, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant (424,000 USD) for Warwick-Newberry Library collaborative programme (Renaissance and Early Modern Communities in a Transatlantic Perspective)
- 2005 - 2009, co-I / strand leader 2007-2008, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant (323,000 USD, PI Margot Finn) for Warwick-Newberry Library collaborative programme (Spaces of the Past)
- 1995 - 1997 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (as above, held at Magdalen College, Oxford; 2 years taken up out of 3)
- 1989 - 1992 Benefactor's Studentship, St John's College, Cambridge
