Richard Cooper

Richard Cooper (born 1947) is Professor of French at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford and Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford. He is currently Chair of the Faculty Board of Modern Languages.
After studying French and Italian at New College, Oxford, Cooper moved to the University of Lancaster as Lecturer in French from 1971. In 1977 he returned to Oxford, becoming Tutor in French at Brasenose College, and was appointed Reader in 1996 and subsequently Professor in 1998. He is a member of the Académie des Sciences, Belles Lettres et Arts, Lyon, and a member of the Institut des Sciences de l'Homme, Lyon. He was appointed Officier in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques in 1996, Commendatore dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana in 2003, and Commandeur des Palmes Académiques in 2012.
Prof Cooper was selected as a torch bearer for the 2012 Summer Olympics torch relay, reflecting his 40 years of service to sport at the Oxford University, including 15 years as chairman of the university sports committee. He is President of the Alliance française d'Oxford.

• Rabelais et L'Italie (1991)
• Litteræ in tempore belli: Etudes sur les relations littéraires italo-françaises pendant les guerres d'Italie (1997)
• Maurice Scève, The Entry of Henri II into Lyon, September 1548, text with an introduction and notes (1997)
• Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, trans. Sir Thomas Urquhart (1999)
• Contributor, Jean Du Bellay, Poemata, with G. Demerson (2007)
• Marguerite de Navarre, Chrétiens et mondains, poèmes épars, vol. 8 of Œuvres complètes de Marguerite de Navarre (2007)