A specialist of the French Renaissance, with interests spanning the medieval period to the early seventeenth century (the Baroque), Dominique Brancher works at the intersection of several disciplines, among them history of the book, history of medicine, sexuality studies, animal and plant studies. She counts as her many publications two ground-breaking books: Équivoques de la pudeur: Fabrique d’une passion à la Renaissance (Droz, 2015) and Quand l’esprit vient aux plantes (Droz, 2015).
Dominique Brancher is the recipient of prestigious awards and fellowships, including the Prix de l’essai et de la critique littéraire (Geneva) for Équivoques de la pudeur.
She previously taught at the University of Basel in Switzerland where she was Professor of French in the Faculty of Philosophy and History. She was a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University, the Université de Genève, and the University of Bordeaux-Montaigne. She holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University (2002) and earned a thèse d’habilitation from the Université de Genève (2012).