Fabienne Moore , Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Romance Languages

See also Dept. of Romance Languages

Office: 424 FR
Ph: 6-4032
E-mail: fmoore@uoregon.edu

Profile

Fabienne Moore received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from New York University in 2001. She is currently an associate professor of French in the department of Romance Languages, a program faculty in COLT and a member of the European Studies committee. Her teaching and research range from the late 17 th century to early 19 th century, from Fénelon to Chateaubriand, with a focus on the literary history of the French Enlightenment and early French Romanticism. In addition to her book, Prose Poems of the French Enlightenment. Delimiting Genre (Ashgate, 2009), she has published articles on the links between the political, the religious and the aesthetic within Enlightenment poetry and on issues of genre, gender and translation, focusing on two women scholars, Anne Dacier and Germaine de Staël.

 

Her current book project focuses on Chateaubriand’s Paradises Lost. Discourse/Counter-discourse on colonialism ( 1791-1830) Postcolonial studies offer an opportunity to reframe Chateaubriand’s writing as the critical testimony of an observer and agent struggling to contain the impulse of colonialism, and represent both its aspiration to build and its legacy of ruins.

She has offered courses exploring “Being Modern in the 18 th Century,” “Libertinage in 18 th-century French Literature,” “Diderot et Rousseau: Enemy Brothers?” “Enlightenment Women Writers,” and “Diderot’s Encyclopédie.” Upcoming team-taught courses include RL 507 “The Idea of Europe” (Spring 2011) and RL 623 “Legacies of the Haitian Revolution” (Spring 2011).

Education

• Ph.D., Comparative Literature, New York University, 2001
• Maîtrise, English, Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail, France,1989

Research and teaching interests

Prose poetry; European Enlightenment and counter-Enlightenment; the "querelle des anciens et modernes;" the Encyclopédie; the evolution of the novel; European romanticism; French cultural history; genre theory; translation (theory, history, practice).

Publications

Manuscript

• Prose Poems of the French Enlightenment: Delimiting Genre. Ashgate Publishing Company, June 2009. 319 p.

Book Chapter

• “Early French Romanticism.” In A Companion to European Romanticism, Michael Ferber ed. 600 p. Blackwell: December 2005. 172-191.

Peer Reviewed Articles

• “The Poetry of the Super-Enlightenment. The Theories and Practices of Cazotte, Chassaignon, Mercier, Saint-Martin and Bonneville.” SVEC (Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation). Forthcoming, 2009.
• “How to Reconquer Poiesis? Florian’s Gonzalve de Cordoue or Granada Reconquered (1791).” Poiesis and Modernity in the Old and New Worlds, eds. Anthony J. Cascardi and Leah Middlebrook. Nashville: Hispanic Issues. Forthcoming, 2010. 
• “1711: The Advent of Homer in French Prose. An Anatomy of Madame Dacier’s Ground-Breaking Translation.” SVEC 2008: 06 (Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation). p.193-213.
• “The Crocodile Strikes Back. Saint-Martin’s Interpretation of the French Revolution.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction. October 2006, 19:1-2. p.71-97.
• “Baudelaire et les poëmes en prose du dix-huitième siècle. De Fénelon à Chateaubriand.” Special edition of the Bulletin baudelairien on Prose Poetry (The W. T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies, Vanderbilt University). April-December 2005. p.113-143.
• “Almanach des Muses vs. Almanach des Prosateurs: The Economics of Poetry and Prose at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century.” Dalhousie French Studies. Summer 2004, 67. p.17-35.
• “Homer Revisited: Anne Le Fèvre Dacier’s Preface to Her Prose Translation of the Iliad in Early Eighteenth Century France.” Special edition of Studies in the Literary Imagination on “Translation, Imitation, and the Eighteenth-Century Imagination,” Fall 2000, 33:2. p.87-107.
• “Revolution or ‘Deplorable School’? Chateaubriand’s Analysis of French and British Romanticism in the Mémoires d’outre-tombe.” European Romantic Review, Spring 1999, 10:2. p.231-241.
• “Chateaubriand’s Alter Egos: Napoleon, Madame de Staël, and the Indian Savage.” European Romantic Review, Spring 1998, 9:2. p.187-200.

• RL 407-507: The Idea of Europe (team-teaching with Professor Evlyn Gould)
• RL 623: Legacies of the Haitian Revolution in the Romance Language World (team teaching with Assistant Professor Tania Triana) Spring 2011