Overview
Richard Anthony Cooper (born 1947), Master of St Benet's Hall, Oxford, from September 2018 until September 2022, is Emeritus Professor of French in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at Oxford University.
Cooper is also an Emeritus Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford and former Chairman of the Faculty Board of Modern Languages of the University of Oxford.
Career
Educated at Manchester Grammar School, introduced by Donald Adamson to foreign languages, Cooper went up to New College, Oxford where he read French and Italian.
Cooper taught French at the University of Lancaster from 1971, before returning to Oxford in 1977 as a tutor in French at Brasenose College, before being appointed Reader in 1996 and subsequently Professor in 1998. He is a member of the Académie des Sciences, Belles Lettres et Arts and of the Institut des Sciences de l'Homme, Lyon.
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