Richard Cooper

Career Educated at Manchester Grammar School, where Donald Adamson introduced him to foreign languages, Cooper went up to New College, Oxford, where he read French and Italian.

Cooper taught French at the University of Lancaster from 1971 before returning to Oxford in 1977 as a tutor in French at Brasenose College. He was appointed Reader in 1996 and subsequently Professor in 1998.

Honours

Appointed Officier dans l'ordre des Palmes Académiques in 1996 (promoted Commandeur in 2012), Cooper also became Commendatore dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana in 2003.

Selected publications Rabelais et l'Italie (1991) Litteræ in tempore belli: Études sur les relations littéraires italo-françaises pendant les guerres d'Italie (1997) Maurice Scève: The Entry of Henri II into Lyon, September 1548, text with an introduction and notes (1997) Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, trans. Sir Thomas Urquhart (1999) Contributor: Jean du Bellay, Poemata, with G. Demerson (2007) Chrétiens et mondains, poèmes épars: vol. 8 of Œuvres complètes de Marguerite de Navarre (2007).