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Ph.D., Princeton University
French and Italian, Associate Professor
Recent Scholarship:
Salons, History, and the Creation of 17th Century France: Mastering
Memory, Ashgate, c2006.
Revising Memory: Women's Fiction and Memoirs in 17th Century
France, Rutgers University Press, 1990.
Article on womens’ memoirs for the Companion to Women's Historical
Writing, eds. Mary Spongberg, Ann Curthoys, and Barbara Caine, Palgrave
Macmillan, 2005.
Interests:
Women writers, especially early modern
Canon formation and women writers
National identity and its construction with respect to women
Historiography and women
Salon culture
Courses Taught:
Associated courses in French on women writers and salons
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