
Sabine Chaouche

Sabine Chaouche is a French scholar who specializes in theatre and social and economic history.
Biography.
She studied at the University of Oxford (New College), where she completed a DPhil in Social and Economic History (2017) and at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne where she completed a PhD in Literature and Theatre (1999) and an Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (2005). As a Reader, she taught French literature and theatre in Oxford. Her books on acting and declamation in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have become reference works. In recent years, she examined staging, the philosophy of performance and the economy of entertainments. She has edited almost all the theories on "actio" and baroque acting from the 1650s to the 1800s and is regarded by Konrad Schoell as "one of the most important representatives of current research into the history of the French theatre of the 17th and 18th centuries". Her multidisciplinary area of expertise includes the history of consumption and trade in nineteenth-century Europe, as well as Oxford students' daily life in the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a member of the Peer Review College of the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK.
She is the director of the journal "European Drama and Performance Studies" published by Éditions Classiques Garnier and the director of the e-magazine "The Frenchmag."