B.A. Middlebury College; M.A. Middlebury College; Ph.D. Yale University
Areas of Expertise
18th- and 19th-century French literature; Rousseau; Baudelaire
Selected Works
“Beauty’s Chambers: Mixed Styles and Mixed Messages in Villeneuve’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’,” Marvels&Tales , 19:2, (2005), 197-223.
Grotesque Figures: Baudelaire, Rousseau, and the Aesthetics of Modernity , Parallax series, (2004).
“The Mechanics of Language: Personification in Rousseau’s ‘Rêveries’,” in Approaches to Teaching Rousseau’s ‘Confessions’ and ‘Rêveries’ , J C O’Neal and O Moustefai (eds.), (2003), 90-95.
“Le sublime et le grotesque: la lettre du Valais et la théorie esthétique de Rousseau,” Annales Jean-Jacques Rousseau , 44 (2002), 99-116.
“Hidden from View: French Women Authors and the Language of Rights, 1727-1792,” in Intimate Encounters: Love and Domesticity in French Painting of the Eighteenth-Century , R Rand (ed.), (1997) 21-37.
Current Projects
First-person narratives by French women in the Resistance, 1940-45.
