Before he was appointed Director of the Maison Française d'Oxford, Luc Borot was Professor of Early-Modern British Civilisation at Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier III, where he had been teaching since 1986. In general terms, he works on the cultural and intellectual history of the British Isles, 1580-1660. His doctoral dissertation and his main publications are on Thomas Hobbes, James Harrington, and radical authors of the mid-seventeenth century. In recent years, he has begun to work on the political and social aspects of Catholic recusancy.

Luc Borot was educated at the École Normale Supérieure, (1980-1984). During his time at ENS-Ulm, he worked as University Lector in French at Oxford and Cambridge Universities (1981-1983), he took the Agrégation (English) in 1984. He then left Europe for two years, teaching English at the Lycée français in Casablanca, Morocco. He returned in France in 1986 to start teaching at Université Paul-Valéry in Montpellier. He defended a Doctorate on Thomas Hobbes and James Harrington (Paris Sorbonne-Nouvelle, 1988). He became a Lecturer in the same university in 1989. He defended his Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches in Montpellier III, in 1993. The same year he was promoted to a Professorship. Between 1996 and 2001 he was elected to a junior fellowship of the Institut Universitaire de France.

During those years, he mostly taught British intellectual and cultural history, with occasional incursions into later periods, and into literature. A philosophical translator himself, he taught translation into English at various levels in his English department.

He held various positions in the administration of research in Montpellier: Director of an Ecole Doctorale in the Humanities (2005-2008), and he was also in charge of the development of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre on the Religious at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme de Montpellier (2006-2008).

Books

Thomas HOBBES: Béhémoth, ou le Long Parlement, établissement du texte, introduction, translation, notes, glossary, index, Œuvres de Hobbes en français, volume 9, Paris, Vrin, 1990. 300 pp..

James Harrington and the Notion of Commonwealth, Luc Borot (ed.). Astræa 6. Montpellier, Publications de l'Université Paul-Valéry, 1998. 310 pp.

Civisme et citoyenneté... une longue histoire, Luc Borot (ed.). Montpellier, Publications de l'Université Paul-Valéry, 1999, 188 pp.

Cités 13, Luc Borot and Dominique Rousseau (eds), « Les constitutions possibles de l'Europe. Figures politiques de l'Europe unie », PUF, january 2003.

Articles

"James VI & I and the book of Revelation: how to Discourage Millenarian Aspirations". Jean-Louis Breteau (ed.). Millénarisme et utopie dans les pays anglo-saxons (Anglophonia 3) (1998) 23-36.

Edition of Thomas Hobbes, "A Preface to the Reader", introduction à sa traduction de l'Iliade et de l'Odyssée d'Homère (1675), critical edition with variants, introduction ("Hobbes's Poetics by himself") and notes. Cahiers Élisabéthains 60 (October 2001) 67-82.

"Politique calendaire et conversion du royaume du règne d'Élisabeth Ire à la fin du Protectorat". Louis Roux, dir., Le char ailé du temps. Temps, mémoire, histoire en Grande Bretagne aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Saint-Étienne, Publications de l'U. de Saint-Étienne, 2003, 93-110.

Edition, introduction and notes, ms British Library Cotton, Julius, Fvi, ff. 139r-141r "Sir Edmund Ashfield to the King of Scottes (c. 1599)". Jean-Christophe Mayer (ed.). Breaking the Silence on the Succession. A Sourcebook of Manuscripts and Rare Elizabethan Texts (c. 1587-1603). collection Astræa Texts 1. Montpellier, Université Paul-Valéry, 2003, 189-201.

"Is Father Robert Parsons's Memorial a Utopia ? A Few Thoughts about the Question of Succession". Jean-Christophe Mayer (ed.), The Struggle for the Succession in Late Elizabethan England. Collection Astræa 11. Montpellier, Université Paul-Valéry, 2004, 179-216.

"Hobbes, Rhetoric, and the Art of the Dialogue". Dorothea Heitsch et Jean-François Vallée (eds). Printed Voices. The Renaissance Culture of Dialogue. Toronto UP, 2004, 175-189.

"Le prophète et l'autorité scripturaire : Winstanley et les premiers Quakers comme continuateurs de la Révélation biblique". Jean-Louis Breteau (ed.), Protestantisme(s) et autorité/Protestantism and Authority (Anglophonia 17) (2005) 263-273.

"L'Angleterre moderne et ses inquisitions". Marie-Catherine Barbazza (ed.), L'Inquisition espagnole et ses réformes au XVIe siècle. coll. Espagne médiévale et moderne 8. Montpellier, Publications de l'Université Paul-Valéry, 2006, 151-165.

"Richard Overton and Radicalism : the New Intertext of the Civic Ethos in Mid Seventeenth-Century England". Glenn Burgess and Matthew Festenstein, (eds), English Radicalism 1550-1850. Cambridge, CUP, 2007, 37-61.

"Domination par la religion, ou religion sous domination ? Le cas de l'Angleterre du milieu du XVIe à la fin du XVIIe. Essai d'interprétation". Cahiers d'Études du Religieux-Recherches Interdisciplinaires n°0, 2007, <http://www.msh-m.fr/article.php3?id_article=283>.