Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde

Emila joined  the Open University as a Lecturer in French in 2014 and has worked across various modules currently offered .

Before joining the Open University, she taught French literature, language, grammar and translation at the University of Cambridge where I was Research Fellow at Clare Hall College, Cambridge. She has also taught at Queen Mary, Paris VII and the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon.

She completed her Mphil and PhD at the University of Cambridge (Queens' college) and completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Oxford (Oriel College) in French and Italian. 

She is also qualified as a professional interpreter and translator (MA, University of Bath).

She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has worked as a Research Associate at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. 

She has specialised in French theatre in the early modern period. Her first book, 'Mendacity and the Figure of the Liar in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy' was published in 2017 by Routledge. Her co-authored book on translation in French with Christophe Gagne for Routledge came out in 2020.

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