Alexander Roose, former Director of Studies and fellow at Clare College (Cambridge), teaches French literature at Ghent University. He works on the French Early Modern period.
His recent books are La Curiosité de Montaigne (Paris, Champion, 2015) - reviews by Alain Legros (Bibliothèque D'Humanisme et Renaissance, 2016, 1, pp. 246-249), Pierre-Élie Pichot ("Le remède est dans le mal", Acta Fabula, 2016, avril-mai 2016, 17, 3), Marc-André Wiesemann in H-France Review , Vol. 19 (November 2019), No. 229 - and De Vrolijke Wijsheid. Zoeken, denken en leven met Michel de Montaigne (Kalmthout, Polis, 2016) - reviews in Filosofie Magazine (2017:6, pp. 72-74), in HBVL (14.01.2017), 4 star-reviews (out of 5) in literary supplements of Trouw (12.10. 2016) and De Standaard (13.01.2017); this book won the "Prijs voor het Spirituele Boek" 2017- award.
