British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Professor Michael Moriarty
Professor of French, Queen Mary, University of London

Year elected: 2006

The scope of his research embraces primarily the philosophy, religion, culture and literature of seventeenth-century France. He excels in the detailed scholarship and analysis of individual writers and their works, but he is particularly noted for his capacity for synthesis, from which he has derived important and unusual insights into the seventeenth-century mind. A continuing interest has been contemporary culture theory.