Rachel Skokowski

I am a DPhil student in French at the University of Oxford. My doctoral research examines the etchings made by Jules and Edmond de Goncourt in relationship to their work as novelists, art critics and art historians. Using an interdisciplinary approach to text and image, my thesis explores the different ways in which the Goncourt brothers’ work as etchers, or aquafortistes, influenced their writing. Prior to beginning the DPhil, I completed a BA in French and Art History at Princeton University and an MSt in Modern Languages (French & Enlightenment Studies) at the University of Oxford. I am funded by a Rhodes Scholarship while at Oxford.