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Dr Isabelle Charmantier

Biography

I did a BA in History in my hometown of Montpellier, France, spending the last year as an exchange student at the University of Durham, during which I specialised in Medieval History.

I then went to work briefly for a children's publisher as historical researcher, and then as head of the history and politics section in Foyles Bookshop in London for five years.

I completed my PhD, entitled 'Ornithology in Seventeenth-Century France: J.B. Faultrier's Traitté General des Oyseaux (1660)' in Septembre 2008. My PhD was undertaken between the Animal and Plant Sciences and the History departments at the University of Sheffield.

I was appointed Associate Research Fellow at the University of Exeter in May 2009 to work with Dr Staffan Müller-Wille on the Wellcome Trust funded project on Linnaeus's use of writing technologies.