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

Struggles for liberty and equality; French & Haitian Revolutions; Early European romanticism; European Enlightenment and counter-Enlightenment; the Encyclopédie; the evolution of the novel; Prose poetry; Chateaubriand; Staël; French cultural and literary history; translation (theory, history, practice); bande dessinées and graphic narratives; blue humanities. 

FR 150 Cultural Legacies of France
FR 301 La France contemporaine
FR 318 Littérature française du Baroque aux Lumières
FR 330 Poésie française
FR 407 La Guerre dans la BD francophone
FR 460 Le Siècle des Lumières et des sentiments
FR 460-560 Liberté et Egalité (new, Fall 2022)
FR 460-560 Histoires de femmes (new, Fall 2020, remote)
FR 460-560 Law & Empire of the Seas (new, Fall 2019)
FR 460-560 Island Stories/Histoire d’îles (new, Winter 2020)
FR 460-560 Romantismes & Révolutions
FR 460-560 Etre moderne au dix-huitième siècle
FR 460-560 Femmes écrivaines et l’émergence du roman
FR 460-560 Rousseau et Diderot: Frères ennemis?
FR 460-560 Libertinage dans la littérature française du dix-huitième siècle
FR 460-560 L’Encyclopédie de Diderot
FR 460-560 Spleen des Lumières
FR 607 Nature & Civilisation
FR 607 L’Age des Lumières
RL 407-507: The Idea of Europe
RL 620: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Romance Languages
RL 623: Legacies of the Haitian Revolution in the Romance Language World (team-teaching with Assistant Professor Tania Triana) Spring 2011
RL 623: Thinking Authenticity (team-teaching with Associate Professor Sergio Rigoletto) Spring 2018

* Manuscripts

• Prose Poems of the French Enlightenment: Delimiting Genre. Ashgate Publishing Company, June 2009. 319 p.
   
• Chateaubriand's Paradises Lost: Ancient Liberty vs. Modern Equality. Appropriations in Anglophone and Hispanic Literature. In progress.

• “The Reception of Homer in the French Enlightenment.” In Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Homer from Byzantium to the Enlightenment. Eds. Christina-Panagiota Manolea and Antony Makrinos. Leden, Netherlands: Brill, forthcoming.
• "Germaine de Staël Defines Romanticism, or the Analogy of the Glass Harmonica." In Staël’s Philosophy of the Passions. Sensibility, Society, and the Sister Arts . Eds. Tili Boon Cuillé and Karyna Szmurlo. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press. 2013. p. 263-280.
• “Early French Romanticism.” In A Companion to European Romanticism, Michael Ferber ed. 600 p. Blackwell: December 2005. p. 172-191.

• "La réception de Chateaubriand en Angleterre, en Amérique du Nord, en Amérique du Sud." Dictionnaire de Chateaubriand. Eds. Philippe Antoine et Pierino Gallo. Paris: Champion. Forthcoming.
• “A Compromised Commerce with East India: Lucien Bonaparte’s La Tribu indienne, ou Édouard et Stellina (1799).” Studies in Romanticism 59. Summer 2020.
• “Gustave Doré’s Histoire de la Sainte Russie (1854): The Invention of Graphic Rhetoric, or the Artist At War.” Dix-Neuf. Journal of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes. 2019. DOI: 10.1080/14787318.2019.1667686
• “From Spain’s Moors to Spain’s Colonies: Chateaubriand’s Mapping of Liberty and Equality in Les Aventures du dernier Abencérage.” Nineteenth Century-Studies French Studies 46: 3-4. Spring-Summer 2018. Special dossier on Chateaubriand: Mapping the Post-Revolutionary World edited by Jean-Marie Roulin.
• “Pour une sémiotique de l'espace de la petite maison. ‘La rencontre du libertinage et du luxe’ dans La Petite Maison de Jean-François de Bastide (1758). Modern Language Notes 131:4, September 2016. p,1042-160.
• “How to Reconquer Poiesis? Florian’s Gonzalve de Cordoue or Granada Reconquered (1791).” In Poiesis and Modernity in the Old and New Worlds, eds. Anthony J. Cascardi and Leah Middlebrook. Nashville: Hispanic Issues. 2012. p. 225-256.
• “The Poetry of the Super-Enlightenment. The Theories and Practices of Cazotte, Chassaignon, Mercier, Saint-Martin and Bonneville.” SVEC 2010:01 (Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation). p.137-166.
• “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.

• “For a Social Contract That Cares: Nicolas de Bonneville’s Periodical La Bouche de fer (1790-91).” Bloomington Workshop: The Eighteenth Century: Who Cares? U. of Indiana at Bloomington. May 13-15, 2015.

• “Quand le sauvage critique le civilisé: reprises de Lahontan et Diderot dans la critique coloniale des Natchez de Chateaubriand.” Journée d’étude, Centre de recherche sur la littérature française du XIXe siecle de l'Université Paris IV-Sorbonne. November 20, 2010.

• “Les paradis perdus de Chateaubriand: Discours/Contre-discours sur le colonialisme(1791-1830). ” Journée d’études, Société Chateaubriand, Châtenay-Malabry, October 10, 2009.

• “Allégories et jeux de miroirs déformants: Ollivier de Cazotte (1763) et Songes et visions philosophiques de Mercier (1788),” École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, March 18, 2009.

• “Les enjeux des Martyrs de Chateaubriand,” École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, March 24, 2009.

• “L’Essai sur les Révolutions de Chateaubriand: Palinodie de ‘l’Aieul du Romantique,’” École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, March 25, 2009.

• “Les poëmes en prose des Lumières ou la politique du genre.” La Maison française at New York University. New York, November 29, 2007.

• “On Linking Histoire des deux Indes to the First French Empire: Staël, Chateaubriand, Napoleon, and Lucien Bonaparte readers of Raynal.” International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Edinburgh, Scotland. July 15-19, 2019.
• “Enacting Politics: The Cercle Social and the Bouche de Fer (1790-91).” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Denver, CO, March 21-23, 2019.
• “The Mitigated Reception of Chateaubriand in Early America (1802-1830): Emerson's pastiche, Flint's quotations, Cooper's reminiscences.” Society of Early Americanists biennial conference. Eugene, OR, Feb. 28- March 2, 2019.
• “Chateaubriand équivoque: esclavage et traite en clair-obscur. Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium. Manhattan Beach, CA, October 25-27, 2018.
• “On Linking Histoire des deux Indes to the First French Empire: Staël, Constant, Chateaubriand, Napoleon, and Lucien Bonaparte Readers of Raynal.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Minneapolis, MN March 30-April 2, 2017.
• “Un commerce des Indes désenchanté : La Tribu indienne, ou Edouard et Stellina de Lucien Bonaparte (1799).” ISECS – SIEDS 14th International Congress for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Rotterdam, Netherlands, 27–31 July, 2015.
• “Implementing the Social Contract with Participatory News in Revolutionary France: Nicolas de Bonneville’s Periodical La Bouche de fer (1790-91).” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Los Angeles, CA. March 18-21, 2015.
• "Chateaubriand's Moors." American Comparative Literature Association. New York, NY: March 20-23, 2014.
• “Alexander von Humbolt (1769-1859) lu et revu par Chateaubriand (1768-1848).” VII International and Interdisciplinary Conference in Homage to Alexander von Humboldt, Claudio Gay and Ignacio Domeyko. Santiago, Chile, January 5-10, 2015.
• “La rencontre du libertinage et du luxe.” Pour une sémiotique de l’espace de la petite maison.Consuming Passions conference. Washington University in Saint-Louis. October 3-6, 2013.
• “United Citizens of Le Cercle Social: An Examination of Nicolas de Bonneville’s Periodical La Bouche de fer (1790-91).” North East American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Wesleyan U. October 11-14, 2012.
• “La Révolution d'Atala (1801).” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. San Antonio, TX. March 22-25, 2012.
• “Philosophical Visions, Prophetic Poetry: Louis-Sébastien Mercier and Nicolas de Bonneville.” Western Society for French History, Portland, OR. November 10-12, 2011.
• “Executing Poetry: Coqueley de Chaussepierre's Le Roué vertueux (1770)." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vancouver. March 17-20, 2011.
• "Corinne ou l’Europe. Linking Germaine de Staël’s Europe to XXIth century Europe.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Albuquerque. March 18-20, 2010.
• “1800: Germaine de Staël Defines Romanticism, or the Analogy of the Harmonica.” International Germaine de Staël Symposium. Washington University in Saint Louis, May 8-10, 2009.
• “Un crime de ‘lèse-poésie’: le poëme en prose dénoncé par Voltaire.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Atlanta. March 22-25, 2007. “Montesquieu’s Le Temple de Gnide (1725): Birth of the Prose Poem?” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Montreal. March 30-April 2, 2006.
• “How to Be a Poet in Prose?” The Strange Case of Eighteenth-Century French “Poëmes en Prose.” Session on “Eighteenth-Century Poetic Voice.” MLA Convention, Washington, DC. December 27, 2005.
• “Voie/x du métissage: Atala de Chateaubriand (1801).” Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Pepperdine University. November 11-13, 2005.

• “Poetry as Strategy: Love and War Before and After the Revolution According to Évariste de Parny (1753-1814).” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Las Vegas. March 31-April 3, 2005.

- Peer reviewing of articles for Eighteenth-Century Theory and Interpretation; Studies  in Eighteenth-Century Culture; European Romantic Review

- Peer reviewing of 2016 book proposal for MLA translation series

- Elected Member, Editorial board, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture (2009-2012)

- Appointed member, Modern language Association Committee for the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize and the Lois Roth Award for a translation of a literary work (2007-2010)
 

• Centre d’Étude de la Langue et de la Littérature Françaises des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (CNRS- Université Paris Sorbonne/Paris IV) Équipe “Poétiques et politiques dans l’espace européen (1750-1820).” Philippe Roger, Research director.
• American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
• Germaine de Staël Society for Revolutionary and Romantic Studies

• Modern Language Association

• Winter 2021: Oregon Humanities Center fellowship
• 2019-20: Language Learning Innovation for Teaching for 200-level course Identities in Francophone Comics ($2,500)
• 2019-20: Sherl K. Coleman and Margaret E. Guitteau Teaching Professorship in the  Humanities for FR 460/560 Law & Empire of the Seas
• Summer 2019: CAS International Travel Grant ($1,000)
• Summer 2017: College of Arts and Sciences Summer Stipend for the Humanities ($5,500)
• Summer 2017: Summer Research Award, Office of the Vice-President for Research, U. of Oregon ($5,500)
• Summer 2015: College of Arts and Sciences Summer Stipend for the Humanities
• 2011-2012: Sherl K. Coleman and Margaret E. Guitteau Teaching Professorship in the Humanities for FR 399 “War in French Comics”
• Fall 2010: Oregon Humanities Center fellowship
• Summer 2010: Summer Research Award, Office of the Vice-President for Research, U. of Oregon
• March 2009:     Visiting professor, Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
• Sept. 07, 08:     Guest scholar, Maison de Chateaubriand, Chatenay-Malabry