Dr Irene Fabry-Tehranchi

French Specialist

Directorate: Cambridge University Library

Department: Collections and Academic Liaison

Email: if229@cam.ac.uk

Irene is in charge of the Modern French printed collections at Cambridge University Library.

Selected publications:

Medieval:

L'iconographie du Lancelot-Graal. Brepols, 2021 (written with Catherine Nicolas).
Texte et images des manuscrits du Merlin et de la Suite Vulgate (XIIIe-XVe siècle). L'Estoire de Merlin ou les Premiers faits du roi Arthur. Brepols, 2014.
L'Humain et l'Animal dans la France médiévale (XIIe-XVe s.); Human and Animal in Medieval France (12th-15th c.). Rodopi, 2014 (co-directed with Anna Russakoff).
Les activités quotidiennes au Moyen Âge. Questes, 15, 2008 (co-directed with Cécile Le Cornec).

Modern:

"Des jeux dans les collections de caricatures de la guerre franco-prussienne et de la Commune, 1870-1871", Les éphémères imprimés et l’image : Histoire et patrimonialisation, Editions universitaires de Dijon, 2023, p. 21-36.
"Visualization of French Book Covers from the Liberation Collection (1944-1946) at Cambridge University Library", with W. Jeong, World Libraries, 26 (1), 2022, p. 1-24.

Exhibitions:

Caricatures of the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune (1870-71) at Cambridge University Library

Blogposts:

European languages across borders (Collections in Germanic, Romance and Slavonic languages at the University of Cambridge).

Professional memberships

French Studies Library Group

Associated research projects

France and the Second World War: The Cambridge Chadwyck-Healey Liberation Collection (1944-1946)

The project uses the CUL’s Chadwyck-Healey Liberation Collection to explore France during the Second World War, the Liberation and the immediate post-war period.

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