Holly Rowe

I’m a DPhil student in eighteenth-century French literature at Lincoln College, supervised by Professor Caroline Warman. My thesis examines the use of evidence and example in essais of the period to explore the ways in which Enlightenment thinkers understood the essay form and its implications. I’m the current graduate convenor of the Early Modern French seminar.

I hold a BA in Modern Languages and History from Durham University and worked in the charity sector for several years before completing an MSt in Modern Languages at Oxford in 2023, funded by the Lincoln College Kingsgate Master’s Award. My DPhil project is co-funded by the Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC DTP studentship, the Lincoln College Kingsgate Scholarship, and the Clarendon Fund.