Christophe Schuwey

I specialize in the literature and culture of seventeenth-century France. My scholarship focuses on marketing and literature, the development and control of an information culture, and the making of cultural hierarchies.

My latest book, Un entrepreneur des lettres au XVIIe siècle (Classiques Garnier, 2020), explores how a close collaborator to Molière turned classical literature and early modern books into fashionable entertainment devices and social networks. In the field of digital humanities, my essay Interfaces (Alphil, 2019) reflects on what digital humanities can really do for literature.

I have also developed multiple critical editions and databases on early modern theater and literature.