Dr Marine Ganofsky

Dr Marine Ganofsky

Lecturer

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 2947
Email
mg216@st-andrews.ac.uk
Office
Room 404
Location
Buchanan
Office hours
On leave in Semester 2, 2025-26

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Biography

I joined the University of 58吃瓜 in 2014. After receiving a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2012, I became a lecturer in early modern French literature at New College (University of Oxford) and later at the University of Kent. I served as an officer for the British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies and the International Society of Eighteenth Century Studies in 2015-2017 and was a Visiting Fellow at Yale University in 2020.

Research areas

I am an eighteenth-century literature scholar with a special interest in libertine fiction and all the pleasure-seekers of the French eighteenth century, from its philosophes to its rakes. Overall, my research contends that the Age of Enlightenment was also an age of happiness whose key insight was to place paradise in the 鈥渉ere and now鈥� rather than in the hereafter (鈥淟e paradis terrestre est o霉 je suis鈥� 鈥� Voltaire).

Enchantment and Enlightenment

My research currently explores enchantment and magic in the French Age of Enlightenment. I am writing a book on libertine enchantments (L鈥橢nchantement libertin, ou la magie du d茅sir dans la litt茅rature 茅rotique du XVIIIe 蝉颈猫肠濒别) which argues that magical metaphors allow libertine authors to hint at the mysterious and ineffable power of desire. The concept of enchantment in the eighteenth century was indeed applied to phenomena that were beyond human understanding. This research project thus challenges the idea that the Enlightenment disenchanted the world, since it shows that the 尝耻尘颈猫谤别蝉 instead revealed how truly enchanting Nature was in all its unexplained workings.

Libertine nights

Previously, my research focused on the pleasures enjoyed under cover of darkness during the Age of Enlightenment. My book Night in Eighteenth-Century French Libertine Fiction (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2018, shortlisted for the 2018 Gapper Book Prize) explains that beyond the indulgences they represent for their readers, the nocturnes of libertine fiction offer an amplified echo of the socio-cultural changes that were transforming the understanding and experience of night for a growing number of men and women in the French eighteenth century. This interest for all things nocturnal led me to author several articles on literal nights and metaphorical shadows in the Age of Enlightenment, delving into subjects like the aesthetics of clairs-obscurs or rococo nocturnes. I have also shared some of my literary discoveries with a wider audience by editing a collection of little known but fascinating (and nocturnal) libertine short stories:听Petits soupers libertins (Paris, Dix-huiti猫me 蝉颈猫肠濒别 2016).

Casanova

As the most famous libertine of eighteenth-century Europe, Giacomo Casanova occupies a place of choice in my research. I have studied for instance his turbulent nights, his sacralisation of sex or his posing as an 鈥渆nchanteur鈥�). I have also created a teaching module on the legend surrounding him (FR4128: A Semester with Casanova: myths and afterlives of Histoire de ma vie) and was interviewed to appear in the Sky Arts documentary听Casanova Undressed (2016).

Cotutelle Student Supervision

Mr Alexandre Mora

Co-supervision with the Universit茅 de Clermont-Ferrand

Co-supervisor - Prof. Fran莽oise Leborgne

Project title: 鈥淟a violence dans la fiction pornographique du long dix-huiti猫me 蝉颈猫肠濒别 fran莽ais鈥� (鈥淰iolence in French pornographic fiction of the long eighteenth century鈥�)

2024 - 2028

Selected publications

  • Ganofsky, M., 2 Jan 2025, Tomber en amour: enqu锚tes sur la naissance du sentiment au XVIIIe 蝉颈猫肠濒别. Ripoll, E. & Gallou毛t, C. (eds.). Paris: Classiques Garnier, p. 193-212 19 p. (Rencontres; no. 651).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter (peer-reviewed) 鈥� peer-review

  • Ganofsky, M., 29 Aug 2025, L鈥檃rchipel des larmes. Anastakasi, E., Leborgne, F. & Montandon, A. (eds.). Paris: Honor茅 Champion, p. 159-178 (Romantisme et modernite虂s; vol. 219).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter (peer-reviewed) 鈥� peer-review

  • Open access
    Ganofsky, M., 14 Oct 2025, In: Tangence. 138, p. 55-79 24 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review

  • Ganofsky, M., 3 Apr 2023, Enlightened nightscapes: critical essays on the long eighteenth-century night. Phillips, P. F. (ed.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 27-47 21 p. (Routledge studies in eighteenth-century cultures and societies).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter (peer-reviewed) 鈥� peer-review

  • Ganofsky, M., 22 Jan 2022, In: French Studies. 76, 1, p. 127-128 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Book/Film/Article review

  • Open access
    Ganofsky, M., 1 Dec 2022, In: Topiques: Etudes Satoriennes. 6, 22 p., 19478.

    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review

  • Ganofsky, M., 26 Apr 2022, 痴颈濒濒茅驳颈补迟耻谤别蝉. Le Borgne, F. & Montandon, A. (eds.). Paris: Honor茅 Champion, p. 49-68 20 p. (Histoire culturelle de l'Europe; no. 17).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter (peer-reviewed) 鈥� peer-review

  • Ganofsky, M., 1 Jul 2021, In: French Studies. 75, 3, p. 394-395 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Book/Film/Article review

  • Ganofsky, M., 28 Jan 2021, Les voix de la nuit. Montandon, A. & Ledda, S. (eds.). Paris: Honor茅 Champion, p. 141-158 17 p. (Romantisme et modernit茅s; vol. 196).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter (peer-reviewed) 鈥� peer-review

  • Open access
    Ganofsky, M., 12 Jun 2021, In: Eighteenth-Century Fiction. 33, 4, p. 493-511

    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review

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