His research focuses on eighteenth and nineteenth century French literature and has worked particularly on Voltaire, Stendhal, Émile Zola, Guy de Maupassant, Stéphane Mallarmé and Charles Baudelaire.
Pearson did his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Exeter College, Oxford.
In 2005 he was appointed Officer in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French government[1] and he was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2009.
[3] He won the Gapper Prize again in 2017 for his book Unacknowledged Legislators: The Poet as Lawgiver in Post-Revolutionary France.
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