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Ph.D., Yale University
Professor of French and Italian
Recent Scholarship: Grotesque Figures: Baudelaire, Rousseau and the Aesthetics of Modernity, Johns Hopkins UP, 2004; "Beauty's Chambers: Mixed Styles and Mixed Messages in Villeneuve's Beauty and the Beast," Marvels & Tales, (forthcoming, October, 2005); "The Mechanics of Language: Personification in Rousseau's Rêveries," in Approaches to Teaching Rousseau's Confessions and Rêveries, ed. John C. O'Neal and Ourida Moustefai (MLA Publications, 2003); "Le Dialogue et le Dialogisme: 'L'Etranger' de Baudelaire," Le Dialogique, ed. Daniel Luzzati et al. (Bern: Peter Lang, 1997), "Hidden from View: French Women Authors and the Language of Rights, 1727-1792," Intimate Encounters: Love and Domesticity in French, Painting of the Eighteenth-Century, ed. Richard Rand (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), "Le sublime et le grotesque: la lettre du Valais et la theorie esthetique de Rousseau," Les Annales Jean-Jacques Rousseau Vol. 44 (Geneva: Droz, 2002).
Interests: Feminist theory, especially feminism and deconstruction, women in eighteenth-century Europe
Courses: Women in the Enlightenment; Confining Women; Deconstructing Gender Identity; Sex, Gender and Society; History and Theory of Feminism; Feminist Theory and Methodology; Sex, Gender, and the Body in Feminist Theories.
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