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Emmanuelle De champs de saint leger
MME

Emmanuelle De champs de saint leger

Professor in British history and civilisation Co-director of LLCER Anglais (with Yannicke Chupin) Co-director of MA Political Ideas in a Digital Age (with Yann Giraud).

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Domaines d'expertise
  • Intellectual history and the history of ideas
  • Early-modern British history
  • Gender

Discipline(s) enseignée(s)

  • British History 1689-1914 (LLCER Anglais, L2)
  • History of Political Thought (MA Political Ideas in a Digital Age, M1)

Activités / CV

Full list of publications available on HAL-SHS

Monographs 

(2015), Enlightenment and Utility: Bentham in France, Bentham in French, Cambridge University Press "Ideas in Context" - prix de la recherche SAES/AFEA
(2008) La déontologie politique, ou La pensée constitutionnelle de Jeremy Bentham, Droz.

Edited books

(2024) Bentham, Le panoptique, trad. Maud Sissung, préface d’Emmanuelle de Champs, postface de Michelle Perrot, éditions Bartillat
(2023) Bustarret Claire (dir.), avec la collab. d’E. de Champs et N. Rieucau, Inventorier les correspondances des Lumières : analyse matérielle et traitements numériques, Ferney-Voltaire, Centre international d’étude du xviiie siècle
(2011) Bentham, Introduction aux principes de morale et de législation, trad. du Centre Bentham, Vrin
(2010) Bentham, Traités de législation civile et pénale, éd. avec Malik Bozzo-Rey et Anne Brunon-Ernst, Dalloz
(2009) Bentham et la France, Fortune et Infortunes de l'utilitariamse, éd. avec Jean-Pierre Cléro, Oxford, SVEC

Recent Articles and chapters

(2025) "La crise du Reform Bill 1830-1832", Revue française de civilisation britannique
(2023) « Des intérêts aux droits politiques des femmes : les théories utilitaristes de Bentham à l’époque de la Révolution française », Annales historiques de la Révolution française, "Les féminismes européens" (J. Heuer, F. Orazi et A. Verjus dir.).
(2022) . « The interests of women in Bentham’s late constitutional thought ». In Bentham on Democracy, Courts, and Codification, eds. Xiaobo Zhai and Philip Schofield, Cambridge University Press, 68‑87
(2020) « Interests, rights and the public good in the late Enlightenment: Condorcet vs Bentham? », History of Political Thought, 41-20, 2020, p. 155‑174.
(2020) « Politiques du bonheur dans la philosophie anglaise », Philosophical Enquiries, 10
(2020) "Literature, Morals and Utility: Bentham, Dumont and de Staël", Jeremy Bentham and the Arts, ed. Anthony Julius, Malcolm Quinn, Phililp Schofield, UCL Press
(2019) "Happiness and Interests in Politics. A late Enlightenment Debate", Utility and Happiness: Essays presented to Frederick Rosen, ed. Mark Philp and Georgios Varouxakis, UCL Press, 20-39
 

 

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Informations complémentaires

A specialist in British intellectual history, I work on Jeremy Bentham and classical utilitarianism in the early-modern period (18th-19th centuries). Since 2018, I have developed a comparative and European perspective through a parallel with contemporary French thinkers such as Condorcet and Mme de Staël. My current research focuses on how utilitarianism contributed to emancipatory arguments on issues of gender and sexual morality, especially in the works of Anna Doyle Wheeler and Frances Wright.

Between 2016 and 2022, I coordinated the Testaments de Poilus project, supported by the Fondation des Sciences du Patrimoine, with Florence Clavaud of the Archives nationales and other partners. This project developed an online collaborative transcription platform and resulted in the publication of a digital edition of 950 wills of Poilus from the First World War.

I am a member of Centre Bentham (Ecole de droit, Sciences Po) and an honorary research fellow at the Bentham Project, University College London

Between 2018 and 2023, I was dean of the Faculty of Languages and International Studies at CY Cergy Paris Université.