Biografie

Simon Burrows

Simon Burrows is Professor in History and Digital Humanities at Western Sydney University and currently a visiting Radboud Excellence Professor, who specializes in the European Enlightenment, the eighteenth-century public sphere and the French Revolution. Among many other publications, he is the author of Blackmail, Scandal, and Revolution: London’s French Libellistes, 1758-92 (2006) and ‘The Character Assassination of Marie-Antoinette: Defamation in the Age of the French Revolution’ (2020).