R. J. Parish
Richard John Parish was a scholar of French literature. He was Professor of French at the University of Oxford between 1996 and 2015.
Career
Born in 1948, Parish was educated at Newcastle University, graduating with a BA in 1970. He then completed his doctoral studies at the University of Oxford; his DPhil was awarded in 1974 for his thesis "The abbé de Choisy : a historical and critical study".Parish was appointed to a lectureship at the University of Liverpool in 1973; he returned to Oxford in 1976 when he was elected a fellow and tutor in French at St Catherine's College and appointed to a university lectureship. He was awarded the title of Professor of French in 1996 and retired in 2015, since when he has been an emeritus professor. He was appointed an officier of the French Ordre des Palmes académiques in 2001 and was promoted to the grade of Commandeur in 2012. He gave the Bampton Lectures in 2009.
He died on 1 January 2022.