Professor
Phone: 501-916-3161
Email: [email protected]
Educational Background
- Ph.D. Comparative Literature (certificate in Psychoanalytic Studies), Emory University (2004)
- M.A. French Literature, New York University (1997)
- B.A. with honors in Comparative Literature (minor in Women Studies), Colorado College (1994)
Areas of Focus
- Comparative Literature; History of Feminist Philosophy; Literary Theory; Translation; Gender Studies
Research Interests
I’m currently writing an article on the work of 18th-century feminist philosopher Louise Dupin as well as a historical fiction project about salons in 18th-century Paris.
Selected Publications
- 2023 Louise Dupin’s Work on Women: Selections, co-edited and co-translated with Rebecca Wilkin. New Histories of Philosophy series, Oxford University Press.
- Forthcoming: “L’idée salique selon Louise Dupin.” with Rebecca Wilkin. In Philosophies : Féminin pluriel. Anthologie des femmes philosophes (editor, Anne-Lise Ray), Classiques Garnier.
- Forthcoming: translation (with Michael Johnson) of Henri Thomas’ novel, Le Parjure. In Perjury: A Critical Edition (editor, Martin McQuillan). Rowman and Littlefield.
- 2011 “Reading, Marks, Love: Rousseau, Stendhal, Baudelaire”, Oxford Literary Review, vol 33.1, 2011.
- 2010 “Invito Spectatore: Scenes of Love in the Lettre à d’Alembert sur les spectacles,” Romance Notes, 50 (2), Winter 2010
- 2009 “The Unfinished Work on Louise Marie-Madeleine Dupin’s Unfinished Ouvrage sur les femmes,” Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 43(1), Fall 2009
- 2008 “Signs of Reading and the Subject of Love in Stendhal’s De l’Amour.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 36.3-4