Philip Ford

Philip Ford is Professor of French and Neo-Latin literature at the University of Cambridge. He specialises in French Renaissance studies, with special emphasis on the relationship between humanism and writing, and between vernacular and Latin texts, particularly poetic ones. Publications include George Buchanan, Prince of Poets (Aberdeen UP), a book on Ronsard’s Hymnes (MRTS), an annotated edition of Jean Dorat’s Mythologicum (Droz), and various conference proceedings. His most recent work is on the reception of Homer in the Renaissance: De Troie à Ithaque: Réception des épopées homériques à la Renaissance (Droz). An Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques and Associate Fellow of the Royal Belgian Academy, he was elected to a Fellowship of the British Academy in 2009. He is currently President of the Fédération Internationale des Sociétés et Instituts pour l’Etude de la Renaissance, and Past President of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies.

Professor Philip Ford
Clare College
Cambridge CB2 1TL

Tel: 01223 333271
Fax: 01223 333219
Email: pjf2@cam.ac.uk