Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde was a research assistant and web designer for the project and is currently Lecturer in French at the Open University. Emilia works on French theatre in the early modern period. Her monograph 'Mendacity and the Figure of the Liar in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy' was published with Ashgate in 2017. Her co-edited special number of Early Modern French Studies on Variations of Vileness also appeared in 2017. Her current project examines suicide in seventeenth-century drama. She has published articles on Racine, Molière, Rotrou and Tristan L'Hermite and on Bernard Lamy and Pierre Nicole. She is also contributing an article on Mairet to the special edition on Suicide for the 'European Drama and Performance Studies' series with Garnier.
