Raphaële joined the BSR in May 2022 to become Head of Research Collections. She was previously Librarian of the Warburg Institute and Reader in History of the Book and History of Libraries, University of London, and Maître de conférences in Early Modern and Modern History at the École nationale supérieure des sciences de l’information (Enssib) in Lyon. She is currently Deputy Director of the Centre Gabriel Naudé (Enssib), and Senior Research Fellow, The Warburg Institute. She was a Membre at the Ecole française de Rome for 3 years. She has worked in French libraries, specialising in Rare Books and Special collections.

Her main research interests are the history of philology, the history of scholarship and the transmission of classics in the Sixteenth Century; the Republic of Letters; the history of the book and publishing and the relationship between humanists and publishers, mainly in Italy, France and the European humanist printers; the cultural history of Florence and Rome in the Sixteenth Century; the history of private libraries in the modern period.

She is principal investigator of the 4-year funded project Greek manuscripts in Renaissance Venice: the library of Guillaume Pellicier and its contribution to Europe’s intellectual heritage and she is the recipient of a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Small Research Grant for her project The Turrettini library : theology and knowledge in early modern Geneva. Complete CV and list of publications: https://cv.archives-ouvertes.fr/raphaele-mouren

She supervises doctoral candidates on Cultural history and History of the Book, History of Libraries, History of the Transmission of Classical Culture, Interactions between literature and visual arts.

At the BSR she created the Digital Research Centre and she is available to discuss research collaboration with scholars preparing projects with Digital Humanities sides.

You can contact Raphaële at r.mouren@bsrome.it or by telephone on (+39) 06-32649380.