Professor Haydn Mason
Senior Research Fellow
Telephone: (0117) 928 7918/9
Fax: 0117 3318010
E-Mail: haydnadrienne@yahoo.co.uk
Haydn is Professor Emeritus in the Department and was previously Head of Department. He is currently General Editor of the Voltaire Complete Works being published by the Voltaire Foundation in Oxford. His former activities include, inter alia, General Editorship of Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century (1977-95) and Presidency of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (1991-95). He is an Officier of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques and holder of the Médaille d'Argent de la Ville de Paris.
His research interests have been mainly in the Enlightenment, with particular emphasis on Voltaire. His publications include several books on Voltaire, as well as monographs or editions of Cyrano de Bergerac and Marivaux, and general studies of the eighteenth century.