Anne Dunan-Page

Anne Dunan-Page, born in Nîmes on April 22, 1971, is a French historian of religion.^[1] She specialises in British dissent in the early modern period and the eighteenth century, with particular emphasis on the study of lived religion. She is Professor of Early-Modern British History and Civilisation at Aix-Marseille University. From 2026 to 2031 she holds a Senior Fundamental Chair at the Institut Universitaire de France.^[2] At Aix-Marseille University, she was head of the research centre for the English-speaking world from 2016 to 2020,^[3] and has been head of the Maison de la recherche at the School of Arts and Humanities since 2024.^[4][5] Between 2019 and 2023 she was First Vice President of the French National Council, Section 11 (Anglophone studies).^[6]

Anne Dunan-Page holds an M.Phil from the University of Cambridge (Sidney Sussex College, 1993) and is an agrégée in English (1996). She holds a PhD in English (2000) and a Habilitation (2009) from the University of Montpellier Paul Valéry.^[7]

Her career began as a lecturer at the University of Montpellier, Paul-Valéry, before becoming a tenured professor at the University of Provence, now Aix-Marseille University, in 2009.^[8] She has been vice president for Research of the Société des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur,^[9] President of the International John Bunyan Society,^[10] and President of the French Society for Anglo-American Studies (17th and 18th centuries).^[11] She is the founding editor of an interdisciplinary collection at Manchester University Press.^[12]

She was a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge (2004), Research Fellow (délégation CNRS) at the Maison française d’Oxford, Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, a member of the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford (2010–2011) and a Visiting Researcher at Queen Mary University of London (2013–2016).^[13] She is currently an associate researcher at the Maison française d’Oxford.^[14]

In 2020 she launched the ‘Mapping Multifaith London’ project, endorsed by the Ecclesiastical History Society,^[15] which records and maps non-Anglican places of worship and memory in 18th-century London.^[16] In 2022, she was awarded a bilateral Hubert Curien partnership with Great Britain (Queen Mary University of London, with Tessa Whitehouse) to strengthen scientific cooperation between the two countries.^[17]

She is a participant in the interdisciplinary project ‘Religions and Societies Facing Contemporary Challenges’ set up by the French government,^[18] funded by the Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR 24-RSHS-0005) and led by the University of Strasbourg.^[19] She co-leads the groups ‘Religious Heritage and Memory(ies)’ with Anne Fornerod (University of Strasbourg) and Filippo Ronconi (EHESS) and ‘Situating Worship: Domestic Places, Institutionalized Places’ with Emma Aubin-Boltanski (EHESS) and Isabelle Saint-Martin (EPHE).^[20]

Dunan-Page's work has been reviewed in several English- and French-language peer-reviewed journals.^{[21][22][23][24]} She sits on the editorial boards of journals including The Journal of Ecclesiastical History^[25] and The Baptist Quarterly.^[26]

Her first monograph, Grace Overwhelming: John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress, and the Extremes of the Baptist Mind (New York, Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang, 2006)^[27] was awarded the Annual Research Prize of the Société des anglicistes de l’enseignement supérieur/Association française d’études américaines.^[28] In 2011, she was awarded the French National Order of Merit for services to higher education.^[29] In 2022, Dunan-Page delivered the Dr Williams's Library Annual Lecture on dissenting history at Gordon Square, London, the first French scholar to do so.^[30] In 2023, she was one of ten women chosen as leading French scholars awarded the Femmes en tête distinction on International Women's Day by the college des sociétés savantes académiques de France^[31] in recognition of her contributions to the advancement of research in her field.^[32]

• Grace Overwhelming, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress, and the Extremes of the Baptist Mind (New York, Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang, 2006) ISBN 978-3039100552
• The Religious Culture of the Huguenots, 1660-1750 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006). Ed. ISBN 978-1138355934 ^[33]
• Roger L’Estrange and the Making of Restoration Culture (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008). Ed. with Beth Lynch ISBN 978-0754658009 ^[34]
• Les Huguenots dans les îles britanniques de la Renaissance aux Lumières. Écrits religieux et représentations (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2008), Collection « La vie des Huguenots », n° 43. Ed. with Marie-Christine Munoz ISBN 978-2745316752 ^[35]
• The Cambridge Companion to Bunyan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). Ed. ISBN 978-0511777523 ^[36]
• Croire à la lettre. Religion et épistolarité dans l’espace franco-britannique (Montpellier: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2012), Collection « Le Spectateur Européen ». Ed. with Clotilde Prunier. ISBN 978-2367813073 ^[37]
• Debating the Faith: Religion and Letter Writing in Great Britain, 1550–1800 (Dordrecht : Springer, 2013), Collection « International Archives of the History of Ideas ». Ed. with Clotilde Prunier ISBN 978-9400752153
• Dissenting Hands, Bunyan Studies: A Journal of Reformation and Nonconformist Culture 20 (November 2016). Ed. with Michael Davies and Joel Halcomb
• An Inventory of Puritan and Dissenting Records, 1640–1714 (Queen Mary Centre for Religion and Literature in English, 2016). Comp. with Mark Burden, Michael Davies and Joel Halcomb^[38]
• L’Expérience puritaine. Vies et récits de dissidents (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle) (Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 2017) ISBN 978-2204121712^[39]
• 'Circulation, Appropriation, Translation: George Herbert and John Bunyan', Bunyan Studies: A Journal of Reformation and Nonconformist Culture, 22 (2018). Ed. with Ana Paula Barros and W. R. Owens
• Church Life: Pastors, Congregations, and the Experience of Dissent in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019). Ed. with Joel Halcomb and Michael Davies ISBN 978-0198753193
• The World of Seventeenth-Century Dissenters: Philosophy, Theology and Worship. Études Épistémè 35 (2019). Ed. with Ana Paula Barros and Laurence Lux-Sterritt^[40]
• Reconstructing Early-Modern Religious Lives: The Exemplary and the Mundane. E-rea 18.1 (2020). Ed. with Laurence Lux-Sterritt and Tessa Whitehouse^[41]
• Émergence et transformations du puritanisme en Angleterre, 1559–1642. Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique XXVII-3 (2022). Ed. with Sandrine Parageau^[42]
• Dictionnaire des études anglophones en France : histoire et épistémologie. 2024. Ed. with Sophie Vallas^[43]