With Ève Morisi (St Hugh’s College), as part of the ‘Contemporains’ Series

Benjamin Hoffmann is a creative writer and an Associate Professor of French (Ohio State University) specialising in eighteenth-century French literature and philosophy. His récits and novels include Père et fils (2011), American Pandemonium (2016), L’Île de la Sentinelle (2022), and, this year, Les Minuscules (April 2024). Forming part of our ‘Contemporains’ Series, this conversation will center on his experience as a researcher-novelist and on his latest novel, which focuses on famous and infamous Venitian Giacomo Casanova.