Jennifer Ruimi

Jennifer Ruimi is an Associate Professor of eighteenth-century French literature at the University of Montpellier Paul-Valéry, a member of the Institute for Research on the Renaissance, the Classical Age, and the Enlightenment (IRCL – UMR 5186), and a junior member of the Institut universitaire de France. After completing a doctoral dissertation devoted to the study of parade de société —La Parade de société au XVIIIe siècle, une forme dramatique oubliée (H. Champion, 2015) — she pursued a postdoctoral project on private and amateur theatres (théâtres de société) in France and Switzerland. During this period, she authored a monograph on Voltaire’s engagement with private theatre, Voltaire et le théâtre de société. Le Plaisir et la gloire (Hermann, 2025). Her current research focuses on the relationship between theatre and health in the eighteenth century, from the perspectives of both amateur and professional theatrical practices.